N.Y. New York City Criminal Court Act § 20: The court constituted

§ 20. The court constituted. The criminal court of the city of New

York is hereby established as a single, city-wide court, as provided by

sections one and fifteen of article six of the constitution; it shall be

a part of the unified court system for the state, and a court of record

with such power and jurisdiction as are herein or elsewhere provided by

law. It shall consist of the number of justices of the court of special

sessions of the city of New York and magistrates of the city

magistrates' courts of the city of New York authorized by law on the

first day of March, nineteen hundred sixty-two. Each of the justices of

the court of special sessions of the city of New York and each of the

magistrates of the magistrates' courts of the city of New York in office

on the first day of September, nineteen hundred sixty-two shall, until

the last day of the year in which the term for which he was appointed

would otherwise have expired, be a judge of the criminal court of the

city of New York. In addition to the judges provided for herein, there

shall be thirty-one additional judges of the criminal court effective

January first, two thousand twenty-four. Such additional judges shall

receive the same compensation as the existing judges of the criminal

court the city of New York.