Citibank was founded in 1812 as City Bank of New York. In 1894 it became the largest bank in the United States. In 1902 it began expanding internationally and became the first major US bank to establish a foreign department. By 1930 it became the largest bank in the world with 100 branches in 23 countries outside the United States. It changed its name to The First National City Bank of New York in 1955, then again to First National City Bank in 1962, and to Citibank in 1976.
Citibank was one of the first US banks to introduce Automatic teller machines in the 1970s, in order to reduce the number of human tellers and give 24-hour access to accounts.
Citibank is now the consumer and corporate banking arm of financial services giant Citigroup, the largest company of its kind in the world. Citibank has operations in more than 50 countries around the world. More than half of its 1,400 offices are in the United States, mostly in the New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Miami, Florida, and Washington, DC metropolitan areas, as well as in California.
In addition to the standard banking transactions, Citibank offers insurance and investment products. Their online services division is among the most successful in the field, claiming about 15 million users.
City Lights is a landmark independent bookstore and publisher that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics.
Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin, City Lights is one of the few truly great independent bookstores in the United States, a place where booklovers from across the country and around the world come to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture's only "Literary Landmark."...
A million copies in print—translated into over a dozen languages—one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published, now available in a new hardcover edition containing a CD of the author reading his work.
After many discussions with civic and cultural leaders, it is clear that, while our City is blessed by a rich, diverse and extraordinarily talented cultural community, funding to improve cultural resources is essential.
The Ethicsboard is charged with providing ethics training for all city employees enforcing city campaign finance, financial disclosure, and conflict of interest laws, and has authority to render advice, investigate complaints and issue fines.
This City of Philadelphia Zoning web site also enables users to see relevant zoning overlay districts, print maps, and access a link to the Zoning section of the City Code (Section 14).
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