Sentences with phrase «blasio blindsided»

Mayor Bill de Blasio blindsided Manhattan's «Billionaire's Row» with a quietly announced plan to open a men's homeless shelter in the former Park Savoy Hotel.

Ms. Quinn was a front - runner in the 2013 mayoral race until a surging Bill de Blasio blindsided her campaign, relegating her to a distant third in the Democratic primary.

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Mark and Solomon Lazar, the sons of Joseph Lazar, a former political ally of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, have been double - dipping off their nonprofit that provides housing to the city's homeless, even as their clients suffered poor service and have been blindsided by eviction notices.

«This community finds itself once again blindsided with the last - minute announcement of yet another hotel conversion,» Congressman Joe Crowley wrote in a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio last week that accused the administration of opening the site with «no prior notice, and zero community input.»

When asked if Mayor de Blasio was «blindsided» by the governor's 4:00 p.m. Friday announcement, he replied «no, I spoke to him about it last night.»

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

Cuomo's announcement this week that Lower Manhattan's congested streets would play experimental backdrop to autonomous cars — with drivers behind the wheel to to bolster safety — blindsided the de Blasio administration, according to City Hall.

The head of the State Police, Joseph D'Amico, blindsided Gov. Andrew Cuomo with his abrupt resignation, which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.

Cuomo, who has been attempting to recruit a candidate to run against de Blasio in next year's Democratic primary for mayor, blindsided Hizzoner last week with a state budget plan the mayor said would cost the city some $ 800 million — prompting a furious de Blasio to vow to kill the plan «by any means necessary.»

De Blasio said at the time that he was blindsided by the change of heart and that he hoped to quickly name a replacement.

The head of the State Police blindsided Gov. Cuomo with his resignation — which was fueled in part by his being used a pawn in the rift between the governor and Mayor de Blasio, sources told The Post.