Sentences with phrase «city elected officials joined»

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At 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Mark Treyger is joined by other elected officials and advocates to call for free diapers for low - income families, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, joined by a coalition of local and state elected officials, community leaders, organizers, activists and supporters, makes his LG run official, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan) joined Queens elected officials in Flushing last week to renew a call to make Lunar New Year a school holiday.

Bensonhurst Bean article on BP Adams joining local elected officials in urging the City's Build it Back program to extend deadlines for homeowners impacted by Superstorm Sandy to file claims.

Mark - Viverito was joined by Council Member Carlos Menchaca, the first Mexican - American elected official in New York City.

(New York, NY)-- Today, downtown elected officials, including State Senator Brian Kavanagh, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Congressmember Jerrold Nadler, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James, State Senator Brad Hoylman, Assemblymember Yuh - Line Niou, and Assemblymember Deborah Glick joined with Community Board 2 Chair Terri Cude to release the following statement in opposition to the City's proposed housing development at the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden: «The City's decision to build housing at Elizabeth Street Garden is both unfortunate and a great disappointment.

(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE by authorizing «design - build» contracting.

And, earlier this month, Senator Kavanagh, Assemblymember Simon, City Comptroller Stringer, City Council Speaker Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Adams and other elected officials joined the DOT and DDC Commissioners, business leaders, and community members to rally for BQE design - build.

In a letter to Tom Allon, the president of City & State, Sen. Espaillat, joined by a number of other Latino elected officials, demanded that Airbnb be dropped as a SOMOS co-sponsor, claiming that the internet home - share middleman «exacerbates the housing crisis plaguing our communities... particularly the communities we represent.»

Cuomo was joined by local elected officials, including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Charles B. Rangel and his successor State Senator Adriano Espaillat, Assembly Keith Wright, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Council Member Dan Garodnick.

Comptroller DiNapoli was joined by fellow elected officials, including City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito; State Senator José Serrano; Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez; City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and environmental activist Peggy M. Shepard.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined state and city elected officials, parents and education advocates on Feb. 28 to announce his support for proposed state legislation that would require elected parent councils to approve school co-locations before they could go into effect.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

But Mr. Meeks is not totally alone in his support of the trade deal — though few other elected officials in New York have joined him in supporting it, the Kathryn Wylde, president of the business group Partnership for New York City, urged the Council not to pass its resolution in testimony today.

While other elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Sharpton, Cuomo participated by phone.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., Senator Joseph A. Griffo, Senator David Valesky, Member of Assembly Claudia Tenney, Marcy Supervisor Brian Scala, and City of Rome Mayor James F. Brown joined leaders and members of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association and other local elected officials today to announce that they are assembling a strategy to show state government that the four state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept open.

Elected officials led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined together at Hudson River Park in Lower Manhattan in a show of solidarity and outrage.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal officials today joined elected and community leaders to dedicate Independence Square, a 74 - unit development of workforce and supportive housing in the Orange County city of Newburgh.

Elected officials, community leaders, victims and their family members will join Diaz Jr. in an effort to draw attention to the impact of gun violence on the public safety in the Bronx and in the city.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

At 11 a.m., dozens of of housing advocates and tenants will join with elected officials to announce a «scathing new report that exposes statistical evidence of Airbnb's negative impact on affordable housing in NYC,» Public Advocate Tish James will speak, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., the UJA - Federation of New York and the Jewish Community Relations Council, will join New York elected officials, Jewish organizations and ethnic, faith and communal leaders from New York to show their support for Israel and her right to self - defense, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta, Rep. Joseph Crowley and other elected officials will be joined by immigrant rights advocates and immigrants to rally in support of Peralta's bill to provide undocumented New Yorkers access to drivers licenses, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The mayor was joined by a group of city and state elected officials, good government groups and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., the Times Square Alliance and elected officials join people who have experienced aggressive solicitation and harassment to detail the «need for the City to regulate pedestrian plazas» and recount their negative involvement with hawkers and hustlers in Times Square, Duffy Square, 46th Street and Broadway, Manhattan.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Coalition for Homeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Joining City Comptroller Harrison Goldin's staff in 1974, his was the first out gay appointment by an elected official.

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — City Councilman Brad Lander on Friday joined a group of elected officials who are riding the subway for 24 hours to get rider feedback about the crumbling system.

Joining the marchers were numerous elected officials, including City Comptroller Scott Stringer, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Councilmembers Julissa Ferreras, Brad Lander, Donovan Richards, and Jumaane Williams.

Prior to joining CPD, Sarah served as the Managing Director at the Working Families Organization where she helped develop a senior management team to guide organizational strategy and as the Elections Director for the New York Working Families Party where she helped recruit, train and elect progressive elected officials at all levels of government and contributed to doubling the size of the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council.

Former Borough President Guy Molinari said Kelly has agreed to join him and various elected officials, including City Council members James Oddo and Vincent Ignizio, for a luncheon that will be both social and political.

New York City's three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James and Comptroller Scott Stringer — and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined a press conference today demanding federal action to address Puerto Rico's deep fiscal and financial crisis.

At 12:30 p.m., Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams will be joined by local elected officials to talk about moving the city forward and what is at stake in this election, Delaware Elementary School, 900 S. Geddes St., Syracuse.

Hours after the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the DACA program, Mayor Bill de Blasio joined with other elected officials, faith leaders and immigrant advocates at City Hall to present a united front in defense of undocumented immigrants — and also denounced the termination decision.

Students will be joined by city and state elected officials and other advocacy organizations.

Many of them turned out last Saturday as elected officials joined civic leaders and city officials to officially co-name the northeast corner of Diversity Plaza in a ceremony that coincided with World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, which was designated by the United Nations in 2002.

The state attorney general was joined by two of the city's three citywide elected officials: Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew joins educators, parents, unionists and elected officials on the steps of City Hall on Sept. 23 in warning against midyear school budget cuts.

The investment by the State, which had been previously indicated to go toward these needed projects and to be matched by the City budget, has been redesignated to fund legislators» pet projects such as landscaping and playgrounds... [Adams] will be joined by local elected officials and area tenants.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Several city and state elected officials joined forces Friday afternoon in order to put pressure on a Washington Heights landlord who left his tenants without power after he stopped paying his electric bill.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) were among the elected officials who joined the festivities.

White roses and lit candles in hand, fellow elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James, community leaders, families, friends and residents joined together in a solemn ceremony on Thurs., Mar. 12th to mark the occasion — and to remember those lost.

Several elected officials joined 150 senior citizens April 17 in Jackson Heights to demand city funding for three residence programs for older adults, two of them in Queens.

(Bronx, NY)-- State Senator Gustavo Rivera joined fellow city and state elected officials to announce the launch of the West Bronx Housing Coalition.

Rally participants were joined by a number of local and state elected officials, including Bridgeport City Councilwoman Milta Feliciano, City Councilwoman Aidee Nieves, City Councilman Jose Casco, and Bridgeport Board of Education member Kadisha Coates.

As a proud graduate of Tacoma Public Schools, an advocate for public education and an elected official who cares deeply about our city and state's future, I urge you to join me and cast your vote for Initiative 1240.

«Local elected officials interested in joining ICLEI's COP23 delegation in Bonn Germany this November may express interest in credentials by emailing Executive Director Angie Fyfe at [email protected] Organized by ICLEI, and co-hosted by the City of Bonn and the State of North Rhine - Westphalia at COP23, the Cities and Regional Pavilion is open November 9 - 14, with the Leaders» Summit will take place on November 12.»