N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 183: Jurisdiction and powers

§ 183. Jurisdiction and powers. The police court shall have, in the

first instance, exclusive jurisdiction to try and determine all charges

of misdemeanor, committed within the city and shall also have exclusive

jurisdiction to try and determine all complaints and charges for

violation of city ordinances, and shall have the power and jurisdiction

now or hereafter conferred upon local criminal courts by section 10.30

of the criminal procedure law. But any charge of misdemeanor pending

before said police court or police justice may be removed to a court

sitting with a grand jury by the same method now or hereafter provided

in sections 170.20 and 170.25 of the criminal procedure law; but a

complaint or charge for a violation of a city ordinance shall not be

removed.