Question: At what level does the court, where Jaime Rios is serving as a judge, lies in the New York State Unified Court System?
Context: Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County.  Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court.  Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New York University, and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law.  Following law school, Judge Rios was a prosecutor in Kings County and later an attorney for the New York City Police Department.  He also teaches landlord/tenant law at Fordham as an adjunct professor.  He is also a co-chair of Fordham's Minority Mentorship Program for law students. In the New York State Unified Court System, a justice court is a local court that handles traffic tickets, criminal matters, small claims, and local code violations such as zoning.  Constitutionally, justice courts are part of the state legal system, but state law generally makes them independent of the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) and instead makes them the responsibility of their sponsoring localities. The Surrogate's Court of the State of New York handles all probate and estate proceedings in the New York State Unified Court System.  All wills are probated in this court and all estates of people who die without a will are handled in this court.  Unclaimed property of the deceased without wills is handled by the Judge of this court.  It also handles adoptions. The New York State Judicial Institute is located about 25 mi north of New York City on the campus of the Pace University School of Law in White Plains, NY.  Spearheaded by New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and Chief Administrative Judge Jonathan Lippman, the institute was created through a unique partnership between the New York State Courts and Pace University School of Law.  The New York State Judicial Institute serves as a statewide center for the education, training, and research facility for all judges, justices, legal staff and employees of the New York State Unified Court System; It is the nation's first training and research facility for judges built by and for a state court system.  The Honorable Juanita Bing Newton serves as the dean of the institute. The County Court of the State of New York is a New York State Unified Court System court of general jurisdiction outside New York City.  In New York City, criminal and civil matters are heard in the city Criminal Court and Civil Court, respectively, or the state Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System.  (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.)  It is vested with unlimited civil and criminal jurisdiction, although outside New York City it acts primarily as a court of civil jurisdiction, with most criminal matters handled in County Court. The Civil Court of the City of New York is a civil court of the New York State Unified Court System in New York City that decides lawsuits involving claims for damages up to $25,000 and includes a small claims part (small claims court) for cases involving amounts up to $5,000 as well as a housing part (housing court) for landlord-tenant matters, and also handles other civil matters referred by the New York Supreme Court.  It handles about 25% of all the New York state and local courts' total filings.  The court has divisions by county (borough), but it is a single citywide court. The Judicial Conference of the State of New York is an institution of the New York State Unified Court System responsible for surveying current practice in the administration of the state's courts, compiling statistics, and suggesting legislation and regulations.  Its members include the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and judges from the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. The New York State Chief Administrator of the Courts (or Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts if a judge) oversees the administration and operation of the New York State Unified Court System.  They are appointed by the Chief Judge of New York with the advice and consent of the Administrative Board of the Courts.  They are assisted by the Office of Court Administration. The New York State Courts Electronic Filing System (NYSCEF) is the electronic court filing (e-filing) system used in the New York State Unified Court System.  E-filing in criminal cases in the Supreme Court and County Court may be authorized by the Chief Administrative Judge, but it is unlawful for such documents to be made available to the public online through NYSCEF.
Answer: trial-level