2006 New York Code - 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.