Sentences with phrase «city public housing buildings»

The joint report included photographs taken by Klein staff that exposed decaying, unsafe conditions in various New York City public housing buildings.

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«I sat here and watched my house start coming apart,» Kendrick said, who sheltered with city officials in public building a block from his house.

As NYC's public housing stock crumbles around them, unionized workers are fighting to hold onto perks that cost the city money and manpower, while delaying changes housing authority officials say would improve the quality of life for the 400,000 residents living in their deteriorating buildings.

City lawmakers laid into public housing officials Tuesday for lagging behind on $ 3 billion in repairs to buildings socked by Superstorm Sandy.

(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.

Most «egregiously» — at least, according to Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing — the city assesses NYCHA a payment in lieu of property taxes on its buildings that exceeds $ 30 million each year.

I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.

New public housing will be built in the City of Niagara Falls.

The head of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early yeCity Housing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its earlyHousing Authority (NYCHA), landlord to more than 400,000 New Yorkers and leader of more than 11,000 employees serving about 178,000 apartments in nearly 2,600 buildings, believes that the future of public housing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its earlyhousing in the city must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early yecity must be driven by the same type of innovation embodied in its early years.

He wants a moratorium on building public and subsidized housing because he said public housing is the cause of an abundance of vacant buildings in the city.

Some politicians are pushing for more security features and police officers at public housing projects after a news report revealed an alarming spike in criminal activity in the city - run buildings.

1210 - A requiring diaper changing stations in new and renovated buildings with public restrooms, regardless of gender; Intro 1241 - A to create a watch list of rent regulated buildings housing tenants at - risk for eviction, City Hall, Blue Room, Manhattan.

A judge has dismissed a NYC Council - backed suit that sought to delay the implementation of Bloomberg's plan to build market - rate housing on city - owned land adjacent to public housing projects.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

City Hall officials have also called on Cuomo to release $ 200 million for public housing included in last year's state budget and authorize the de Blasio administration to employ «design - build,» a process of combining design and construction work, which they say would expedite repairs by at least 12 months.

«It's a public subsidy to build houses and apartments in New York City,» said Ryan.

Throughout his career in public service, Scott M. Stringer has dedicated himself to building a strong middle class for New York City, taking on critical issues such as affordable housing, school overcrowding and public safety.

This is the second new charter school to be built inside city public housing developments in Harlem.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to curb homelessness in New York City is exacerbating the housing crisis, according to New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, who is calling on the mayor to stop allowing landlords of rent - stabilized apartments to turn their buildings into homeless shelters.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye announced today that an audit of the financially strapped public housing landlord found it had mismanaged and misplaced hundreds of thousands of dollars in building materials and supplies, and that NYCHA had agreed to overhaul the administration of its warehouses as a result of the study — a shakeup the Observer first reported lastHousing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye announced today that an audit of the financially strapped public housing landlord found it had mismanaged and misplaced hundreds of thousands of dollars in building materials and supplies, and that NYCHA had agreed to overhaul the administration of its warehouses as a result of the study — a shakeup the Observer first reported lasthousing landlord found it had mismanaged and misplaced hundreds of thousands of dollars in building materials and supplies, and that NYCHA had agreed to overhaul the administration of its warehouses as a result of the study — a shakeup the Observer first reported last month.

The city will use the 1962 Speigel law, which allows it to cease rent payments on behalf of tenants living on public assistance should their building have a number of housing violations, as a «back to the future kind of solution» to dealing with bad landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Columbia plans to build a new $ 100 million 47,700 - square - foot field house at 218th Street and Broadway and has promised a host of community amenities in exchange, including a $ 3 million investment in the sports fields, which would be more readily accessible for community use and a new boathouse marsh that would be «gifted» to the city for public use.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violHousing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violhousing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Most significantly, the legislation would require the city to find space for charter schools inside public school buildings or pay much of the cost to house them in private space.

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CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio could potentially use space in New York Public Library branches and New York City Housing Authority buildings to meet his goal of providing full - day universal pre-K to all city students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his pCity Housing Authority buildings to meet his goal of providing full - day universal pre-K to all city students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his pcity students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his plan.

Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8 configuration with the creation of a lower school and an upper school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper school still housed within four of the city's elementary buildings.

The signs encouraging people to vote in the school election were hanging on both charter and traditional school buildings, and attorney Willie Zanders initially sued the Orleans Parish School Board, which owns almost every building in the city housing a public school, charter or traditional.

The United Federation of Teachers, joined by the NAACP and several public officials, filed suit against the New York City Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schoCity Department of Education on Wednesday in attempt to halt the city's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schocity's closure of 22 schools and to prevent charter schools from using space in buildings that house public schools.

This tireless rescue group saves stray dogs left on country roads or city streets; abandoned in empty houses or public parks; chained to fences or behind buildings.

Its historical center, composed of squares, neighborhoods, churches, houses, streets, stairways, ornamental fountains, as well as of public and private buildings, displays a harmonious combination of three time periods, in which the Plaza de Armas (Main Square), the Cathedral, Hatun Rumiyoq Street (Twelve Angle Stone), the Temple of the Qorikancha, the city's churches and colonial mansions, along with the craftsmen's neighborhood of San Blas stand out, among other attrations of what was the capital city of the Incan Empire called the Tawantinsuyu.

Housed in the original Venice City Hall building in Venice, Beyond Baroque is a nonprofit public space dedicated to cultivating new writing and expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, fiction, literature, and art through cultural events and community interaction.

The modern part of the city — jeweled by the richly decorated capitol — contrasts with the older areas that boast spacious avenues, immense and splendid houses and stately public buildings.

Theaster Gates transformed vacant and abandoned buildings in his neighborhood on Chicago's South Side by establishing a foundation, and then partnering with the city and developers to rehab a public housing complex into

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Precity's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State PreCity (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

J.B. Blunk: Curriculum Vitae Chronology 1926 Born August 28, Kansas City, MO 1946 Moved to California 1949 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1949 — 1950 Drafted, Korean War 1952 — 1954 Lived and worked in Japan as potter's apprentice 1954 — 1955 Artist in Residence at Palos Verdes College 1955 Moved to Northern California 1957 — 1962 Built house in Inverness, California 1962 Began working with wood 1969 — 1970 Travel to Mexico and Peru 1971 Apprenticeship Grant from Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 1979 Cultural Exchange Travel Grant to Indonesia, U.S.I.C.A. 1983 Travel to Japan 1986 California State Art in Public Places Program competition award for sculpture 1999 Lectured at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1990 Art Consultant to Land Studio Landscape Architects and MW Steele Group 2002 Died June 15, Inverness, CA

Housed in a 17th - century building in the city's San Marco district, the new gallery will complement her existing spaces in Mayfair and east London, and will open to the public on 10 May with an exhibition by Chris Ofili.

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

CA Spectral Hues, curated by Sharon Bliss, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Building the Art House, curated by Katherine Connell and Emma Spertus, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Big Idea, curated by Sue Collier, Leslie Ford, Jack McWhorter and JoAnn Rothschild, The Painting Center, New York, NY Along the Lines, Harrington Gallery, curated by Julie Finegan, Pleasanton, CA 2016 Plus +1, Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group show, November - December 2016, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Palette, curated by Kelly Inouye, Theodora Mauro and Lisa Solomon, ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Art Market, with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2015 Therely Bare Redux, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN Therely Bare Redux, Clara M Eagle Gallery, University of Tennessee, Murray Territory of Abstraction, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Out of Storage, Studio 110 Projects, Sausalito, CA Art Market San Francisco, (with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary), San Francisco, CA The Airplane Show, B Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA 2014 un.bound.ed, curated by Brent Hallard and Don Voisine, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (edition) DOPPLER SHIFT, curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Intuitionists, curated by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) First / Last, curated by Heather Phillips, Park Life, San Francisco, CA 2013 DOPPLER, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Generations IX: The Red / Pink Show, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Made In Paint: 2012 Artists in Residence, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY Rituals of Exhibition II, Light Space Project, H Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand Rituals of Exhibition, curated by Giles Ryder and Gilbert Hsiao, Don't Be Selfish, Phayao, Thailand POSTE CONCRET II, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR 2012 Soft Luminosity, curated by Guido Winkler and Iemke van Dijk, IS Projects, Leiden, NL (edition) Art On Paper 2012, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (brochure) Islands of Order in a Sea of Chaos, curated by Ruth van Veenen, de Vishal, Haarlem, NL Doppler Stop, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) Doppler Stop, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Doppler Stop, Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE Doppler Stop, trenutak.39 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, HR Trade - O - Mat, curated by Kathryn Kenworth, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 A Romance of Many Dimensions, curated by Brent Hallard, Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY POSTE CONCRET I, curated by Richard van der Aa, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR BYO, IS Projects, Leiden, NL Stop & Go Rides Again, touring exhibition curated by Sarah Klein, Z Space, San Francisco, US; Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL; Fluctuating Images / General Public, Berlin, DE; Fluctuating Images / Interventionstraum, Stuttgart, DE An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue) ReTrace, Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 2010 TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (catalogue) Factor XX, curated by Jenny Balisle, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (catalogue) The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 TRANS: form color, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA (brochure) The Grid, curated by JT Kirkland, MP5, Portland, OR 2008 Calculated Color, curated by Jane Lincoln, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod, MA (brochure) The Space Between, curated by Cathy Kimbell, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (brochure) Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (also 2005, 2004) TOUCH, curated by Brent Hallard, Busdori, Tokyo, Japan Out of the Fog: Artists from Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dianne Romaine and Holly Blake, Art works Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2007 TRANS: Abstraktion, Weltraum, Munich, DE (brochure) 7 - 07 Hung Liu curates 7 Women Artists in the year of the Pig, b.Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA (brochure) Bay Area Currents, The Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO The Unknown Quantity, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA Systems & Transmutations, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) Still, Contemporary Quarterly, curated by Chandra Cerrito, www.ContemporaryQuarterly.com (brochure) 2006 Suitcase: Bus - Dori, curated by Brent Hallard, Tokyo, JP Summertime, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL microcosm, curated by Victoria Wagner, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA (brochure) Sketch, The Memorial Union Gallery, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 2005 Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA 2004 and now they aren't.

We Americans could use a lot less energy with better housing and with denser cities (walkable, electrified public transit), though of course building new buildings takes energy of its own.

For manufactured housing owners in San Jose, «it's hard to replicate the affordability of housing costs in our area,» says Cheryl Wessling, public information manager for the City of San Jose, Planning, Building & Code Enforcement Dept. «The land under manufactured housing is part of the rent control in our area.