Editing Town (section)

====New York====
{{Main|Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Town}}

In [[Administrative divisions of New York|New York]], a town is a division of the county that possesses home rule powers, but generally with fewer functions than towns in New England. A town provides a closer level of governance than its enclosing county, providing almost all municipal services to unincorporated communities, called [[Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Hamlet|hamlets]], and selected services to incorporated areas, called [[Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Village|villages]]. In New York, a town typically contains a number of such hamlets and villages. However, due to their independent nature, incorporated villages may exist in two towns or even two counties (example: [[Almond (village), New York]]). Everyone in New York who does not live in a city or [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] reservation lives in a town and possibly in one of the town's hamlets or villages. New York City and [[Geneva, New York|Geneva]] are the only two cities that span county boundaries. The only part of Geneva in [[Seneca County, New York|Seneca County]] is water; each of the [[boroughs of New York City]] is a county.