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Advocates say the city will need 25,000 units of supportive housing over the next 10 to 15 years.

Environmental advocates say the city's emergency manager needs to address pollution problems.

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It later halted the weekly reports following sustained criticism from jurisdictions and immigration advocates who said the reports were an attempt to intimidate and shame so - called «sanctuary cities.»

While US officials say it's integral to national security, citing its use in disrupting a terrorist plot to blow up the New York City subway system in 2009, privacy rights advocates worry the law oversteps its bounds and infringes on Americans» Fourth amendment rights.

«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he scity — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he sCity Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.

«There would be no Uber without immigrants,» said Jim Conigliaro Jr., founder of the Independent Drivers Guild, an organization that represents and advocates protections for nearly 50,000 Uber drivers serving New York City.

The company collects and remits taxes on rentals in the city, but hotel workers and housing advocates say the rules do not go far enough.

Elizabeth Love, a 17 - year - old advocate and march organizer in Salt Lake City, said mentioned parts of their platform, which includes universal background checks and a waiting period for gun purchases.

Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City, N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician's home county said.

«I am thrilled to begin advocating on behalf of one of America's great industries with deep roots in all 50 states and cities and towns across our nation,» said Bailey - Chapman.

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While city schools have improved cafeteria food by restricting trans fats and fried foods and requiring healthier vending machine choices, child health advocates say there is still much to do.

Advocates of the ballot measure in Crystal Lake say that kind of intervention is crucial to preserving the city's past — and improving its future.

Advisory council members say the new guidelines may be an effort by the Park District to restrict park advocates» voices, especially with regard to the city's bid for the 2016 Olympics.

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute applauds the Mayor, the City Council, the Office of School Food and Nutrition Services, and all of the advocates in the Lunch For Learning Campaign who have worked so hard to bring us to this day,» said Jan Poppendieck, Senior Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and author, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America.

An attorney with the Reform Party, Richard Luthmann, said he plans to file an objection to the WFP's endorsements in races for mayor, public advocate and city comptroller.

A week after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city's Vision Zero safety campaign, Ameri met one - on - one with local advocates and laid out a plan of action that included speeding enforcement and failure - to - yield sting operations, McClure said.

The New York City public advocate said she won't seek an appointment to the seat but didn't rule out a future campaign.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said he is «tired of getting caught in between the governor and the mayor» and even Public Advocate Letitia James recently called for the rift between the two politicians to be healed for the sake of the state and the city.

New York City Public Advocate Tish James said initially that she would seek an interview, but announced on May 11 that she would not participate, though she is not ruling out a run.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has advocated for «a version» of broken windows policing, saying the term got a bad rap under previous administrations but that it is right in principle.

Advocates, including the roughly two dozen groups that support the City Council legislation, promoted a state plan to reduce new HIV infections in New York from the current roughly 3,000 a year to 750 by 2020, which they say would «end» AIDS as an epidemic in New York.

«We're going to demand that Governor Cuomo provide the funding that was afforded to us in a court decision for our schools,» she said as she joined advocates to push for more funding under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, which in 2007 won a lawsuit against the state to provide increased education funding to the city.

«Mayor de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and now myself as the City Council speaker all are affirming and are an example of what the electorate has said they want, which is a new direction in the way that the City of New York in lead,» she told the crowd.

New York City Public Advocate Tish James said initially that she would seek an interview, but announced on May 11th that she would not participate, though she is not ruling out a run.

New York City's public advocate, Tish James, said she is running to be New York's top prosecutor.

Despite gaining the support of transit advocates and several local officials, including Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Mayor de Blasio has been reluctant to fund the pilot program, or any variation of it, saying the city can not afford it and that ultimately the MTA is the state's responsibility.

When City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration for the large number of marijuana possession arrests made on his watch and advocated for legalizing medical marijuana, he said he was not dismissing the drug's ill effects.

On Monday, the New York City - based progressive group New York Communities for Change, which advocates for tenants» rights and affordable housing, endorsed Nixon, saying that Gov. Andrew Cuomo «caters» too much to the real estate industry.

As New York City Administration for Children's Services requests for the removal of children rise, advocates say low - income parents of color with few resources are being punished, with the criminalization of parenting choices nicknamed Jane Crow.

«By the same measure, I would hope he speaks publicly and advocates for subway riders in this city to also get a discount for having to adjust their commutes amid continued repair work across the five boroughs,» Adams said in a statement.

Wiley, who will take over as chair next month, calls herself a racial and gender justice advocate and says those roots make her move from legal adviser inside City Hall to head of the outside agency — as well as professor at the New School — a kind of homecoming.

Both State Senator Eric Adams and City Councilman Charles Barron have expressed interest in a run, although Adams is said to be considering a run for Public Advocate, and Barron has expressed interest in running for a number of different city, state and federal offiCity Councilman Charles Barron have expressed interest in a run, although Adams is said to be considering a run for Public Advocate, and Barron has expressed interest in running for a number of different city, state and federal officity, state and federal offices.

Homeless advocates want the roadmap to touch on the issue, and McCray has said that mental health problems are exacerbated when people are stressed about losing their home, but the city's power to solve the problem is limited by how much it is willing to spend, and a distant relationship with the Cuomo administration.

«New Yorkers face so many hurdles finding affordable housing, and discrimination against source of income should not, and will not, be one of them,» said New York City Public Advocate Letitia James.

«They've helped to destroy successful schools across the city of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for macity of New York,» Thompson said during a panel discussion on education policy at NYU, hosted by the New York City Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for maCity Working Group on School Transformation, which also featured Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio who are presumptive candidates for mayor.

«I think that's a great fit for her, and I think she would do a great job as she has been as the public advocate representing a very diverse city, and I think she has inspired other women of color to take on large roles like that,» Bichotte said.

«We're not asking to keep our mansions,» said Jeff Gold, a healthcare advocate working in architecture who warned that the city depended on the communities whose futures are held in the balance of these negotiations.

Thus the new budget manipulates future aid formulas in a way that one advocate says will cost city charters some $ 1.7 billion over the next several years.

Several contenders, including New York City Public Advocate Tish James, state Sen. Mike Gianaris and former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara have said they would not take part in the process.

But smokers» - rights advocates fumed before and during the standing - room - only hearing, saying the bill takes the city's war against cigarettes too far.

THE BRONX — A decision by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to allow the NYPD to implement changes to how police interact with the public — instead of passing legislation to mandate it — is wrong and will be challenged, City Council members and police reform advocates say.

Public Advocate aide Kirsten John Foy and City Council Member Jumaane Williams, of Brooklyn, said police lied about the circumstances leading to their detainment at the West Indian Day Parade.

«There are still too many situations reported by students, parents and advocates in which students are harassed or threatened in school, often by the people who are supposed to protect them,» said Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, who heads the Council's Education Committee and sponsored the bill.

Advocates say the legislation would help end discriminatory police stops that are predominately performed on black and Latino men in communities of color across the city.

Elected officials and anti-police brutality advocates say recording police activity may be a First Amendment right, but that it's time for the city to put that in writing.

But elected officials and advocates say they are filing amicus briefs in opposition to the city's appeal of a July 2015 state court decision that called for the release of a summary of misconduct findings against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put Staten Island man Eric Garner in a chokehold that killed him, noting that the law permits released based on a court order.

The city's public advocate, Letitia James, said she had not been aware that Mr. de Blasio had stopped taking questions during routine announcements and expressed surprise at the approach.

«I am the face of instant runoff, let me remind you,» said Public Advocate Letitia James at Tuesday's news conference, on the steps of City Hall.

New York City Public Advocate and mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio slammed City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's affordable housing platform, saying it pandered to...