N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 21: Office hours

§ 21. Office hours. Unless otherwise provided by law, the city offices

shall be kept open for the transaction of business each day in the year,

Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from ten o'clock in the forenoon

until four o'clock in the afternoon, except that the offices of

comptroller, city treasurer and the office for the collection of water

rents, shall be kept open as aforesaid from ten o'clock in the forenoon

until three o'clock in the afternoon. The common council may from time

to time direct any city office to be kept open at such other hours as

public convenience may require.