Sentences with phrase «city borough asked»

The heads of all five chambers of commerce in each New York City borough asked Mayor Bill de Blasio to cut the number of...

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The boisterous Brooklyn borough president asked the city's Charter Review Commission yesterday to consider giving control back to him and the other four Beeps over their budgets, a move that would restore much of the powers they lost 21 years ago.

Asking for a fare increase as city officials are trying to get a new class of cab in the outer boroughs isn't playing hardball, Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, told Gotham Gazette today.

New York (CNN)- New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — in his first «State of the City» address — vowed Monday to ask New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the authority to raise the minimum wage in all five boroughs and raise taxes on the wealthy.

NEW YORK CITY — When Key Food donated five truckloads of food to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy last month, they asked the city's five borough presidents where to send them.

De Blasio, who delivered his speech under a banner that read «One New York Rising Together,» his election slogan, promised to expand the city's so - called living wage, and to ask Albany for permission to raise the minimum wage in the five boroughs.

James S. Oddo, a Republican who is borough president of Staten Island, shared a letter on Twitter that he received from the Transportation Department in November 2014 after he asked the city to determine whether a streetcar line would be feasible in his borough.