Sentences with phrase «blasio took office»

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office, several sources confirmed.

The New York City Coalition of Community Charter Schools was established just as Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.

When de Blasio took office, about 20,000 children had access to government - funded full - day pre-K.

When Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in January 2014, none of the city's 152 unions, representing more than 337,000 employees, were under contract.

The protest, which at times grew tense and disorganized with residents shouting over elected officials, comes on the same week the city announced the number of homeless people has grown to 60,000 people, an increase of nearly 10,000 since de Blasio took office and the highest it has been since the city began keeping count.

After de Blasio took office, he brought back city rental assistance programs to help people afford housing and move out of shelter.

According to the administration, 83 percent of the city workforce is now under contract, after the number was zero when de Blasio took office.

Bharara's office subpoenaed the State University of New York, seeking all communication between City Hall and the school about the sale dating back to when de Blasio took office, the Daily News reported.

That's nearly half of roughly $ 2.7 million shelled out by the campaign, including outstanding bills, since de Blasio took office in 2014.

The Citizens» Budget Commission's Carol Kellerman expressed alarm over the size of the city's municipal workforce, which now exceeds 327,000 workers and which has grown by 9 percent since January 2014, when de Blasio took office.

Though the shelter population began to reach historic peaks before de Blasio took office — fueled, in part, by the end of the Advantage rental - subsidy program that stranded people trying to transition, or remain out of, the shelter system — the mayor got hounded (by some, more than others) for his apparent stumbling with the issue.

He also took the opportunity to slam the mayor for not doing more to protect neighborhoods such as Prospect - Lefferts Gardens, saying that not one zoning change to limit height and density in a neighborhood has been approved since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

«Since Mayor de Blasio took office, our streets are safer, our schools are improving, and we are building affordable housing at a record pace,» Espaillat said.

Early in the summer, de Blasio denied there was an increase in homelessness even as DNAinfo New York reported that 311 homeless complaint had jumped 60 percent since de Blasio took office.

But by 2014, when Mayor Bill de Blasio took office and appointed Bratton NYPD commissioner again, people no longer fully embraced the 1990s strategies.

Calls to 311 to complain about homelessness have risen 60 percent since de Blasio took office, and anecdotally, many New Yorkers think they are now seeing more people on the streets, with a flood of media attention backing up their perception.

Though both are Democrats, the mayor and governor found themselves at odds shortly after de Blasio took office.

De Blasio explained that more than two decades of rapid growth in housing costs, combined with slower growth in wages, had contributed to a 115 percent increase in the number of people living in city shelters from 1994 to 2014, when de Blasio took office.

The city says that more than 50,000 people have exited shelters since de Blasio took office, with close to 19,300 of them finding permanent housing through various city programs.

If adopted by the Council this spring, the budget, for the fiscal year that begins July 1, would be more than $ 12 billion above the level of spending when Mr. de Blasio took office.

There were approximately 51,000 people in shelter when de Blasio took office on Jan. 1, 2014.

In a City Council Hearing last week, Taylor could not give an accurate number for the amount of people living on city streets, or for the number of admissions to city homeless shelters since de Blasio took office.

City records show that at least two municipal employees have been suspended for sleeping on duty since de Blasio took office, and two others face suspension or firing.

Indeed, since de Blasio took office, the budget has steadily risen by billions each year.

The atmosphere in negotiations certainly shifted this January after mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

Bloomberg and de Blasio have rarely appeared together since de Blasio took office.

Rechnitz's sordid account of a City Hall for sale to the highest bidders merely confirms what's been obvious since de Blasio took office.

Staffers hired by de Blasio received an average raise of $ 7,000 in FY 2016 — nearly double the $ 3,600 average raise of public servants who joined City Hall before de Blasio took office.

Residential and office construction have boomed since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014.

«When Mayor de Blasio took office, not one homeowner had received a check or seen construction,» spokesman Raul Contreras said in a statement.

Nonprofit representatives said some service contracts for programs that existed before de Blasio took office haven't been increased for a decade.

Marking a significant shift in its lobbying strategy, the influential charter school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools will not hold a political rally in Albany this legislative session for the first time since NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took office.

The outer boroughs have added jobs at more than twice the rate Manhattan has since de Blasio took office, new data shows.

That disapproval rating has risen significantly since de Blasio took office, when his disapproval rating stood at 13 percent citywide.

The on - topic and off - topic questions in the Q&A portion of the press conference included: the project status when de Blasio took office and how his approach to affordable housing differs from Mayor Bloomberg, whether there are any differences in Phase I of the project as being initiated now versus as approved by the Bloomberg administration, what he sees as a realistic percentage of units being «affordable» in projects located closer to or in Manhattan, whether he counts this project towards his goal of 200,000 affordable units, the NYPD officer recently arrested in India, the status of speed camera approvals from Albany, the FOIL delays and responses which did not produce any emails or documents in the Findlayter case, the NYPD / FDNY hockey brawl, Queens Library President Thomas Galante and the newly elected leadership of NYSUT (the state teachers union).

Shortly after de Blasio took office in 2014, his team got involved in the initial part of a lengthy and complex series of transactions that paved the way for the final sale of Rivington House, according to emails sent to City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who released a report on the matter this week.

Andrea Hagelgans has been a fixture at City Hall since just after Mayor de Blasio took office.

Only 28 percent of whites approve of de Blasio versus 65 percent who don't, the lowest numbers among white voters since de Blasio took office.

This division of political labor has been going on since de Blasio took office, and seen as a byproduct of the ongoing feud between the two top Democrats.

They've stood together for several policy announcements over the past two - plus years since de Blasio took office as

When Mr. de Blasio took office as mayor in 2014 and Mr. Heastie was the Bronx Democratic county chairman, they found themselves on opposite sides of the race for City Council speaker.

Olatoye took over at NYCHA in 2014, soon after Mayor de Blasio took office and appointed her to the position, facing

Malliotakis regularly criticizes the $ 85 billion overall size of the City budget and the $ 15 billion increase in the budget since de Blasio took office.

Since de Blasio took office, 31 high - level advisors have left his administration, the Times reports.

It wound up including, at the governor's behest, guarantees of co-locations for charter schools that had been approved before de Blasio took office.

Since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office the city's payroll has expanded from 297,148 employees to 313,092, with a target of hitting 323,000 by next summer.

«I think it's clear that we were much better off prior to Bill de Blasio taking office and I don't believe that he deserves another term.»

22) New York: As Mayor de Blasio takes office, a moment of truth looms over the future of charter schools and public education.

Not exact matches

The M&M s, Doritos, and various artery - clogging vending machine treats that former mayor Bloomberg had replaced with healthy, boring snacks are BACK, now that Bill de Blasio has taken up office.

Senate Republicans and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have been at odds almost since the moment the mayor took office in 2013.