2006 New York Code - Judges Are Magistrates.

 
    § 30. Judges are magistrates.  The judges of the court are magistrates
  and  shall  have  and  exercise  all  the  jurisdiction  and powers, not
  inconsistent with this act, which are conferred by law upon  magistrates
  and  police  justices  under  the  provisions  of  the  code of criminal
  procedure and which were conferred by law upon city magistrates  of  the
  city  of  New  York  on  the  first  day of April, nineteen hundred ten.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, when sitting as magistrates,  each
  of  the judges of the court shall have jurisdiction throughout the city,
  and may perform any and all of the duties and functions of a  magistrate
  in and for any one of the counties in the city.