Sentences with phrase «city subway after»
Though I've ridden the New York City subway after happy hour before, I was still a little unsure about how my balance would be on a surfboard.
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A New York dermatologist who became a local celebrity after he pioneered the use of print advertising throughout the city's subway system has retired and closed his office after practicing for more than 40 years.
After the destruction and disruption from Hurricane Sandy, New York City didn't just upgrade its power substations and subway entrances, Miller said in a subsequent phone call.
But from the distance of my home in Eugene, Ore., it seemed inconceivable that a 26 - mile race could be run through the city just six days after the storm, with fires having leveled blocks in Queens, with neighborhoods in Brooklyn under eight feet of water, with the subways and the airports flooded and 40,000 left homeless.
Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay today — a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.
It was another miserable morning on New York City's subway after delays snarled more than a dozen lines today, with an antiquated signal system blamed for many of the problems.
After months of refusing to pay for emergency subway repairs, Mayor de Blasio on Saturday announced that the city would finally cough up its $ 418 - million share of the emergency repair plan created last year by MTA boss Joe Lhota.
The measure was named after Kendra Webdale, a WNY native who was killed when she was pushed in front of a New York City subway train by a man with untreated schizophrenia.
A program to install Art Deco - style towers in front of the city's bridges and tunnels has come under heavy scrutiny this week after it was revealed that the MTA had set aside $ 100 million for the project, in the midst of a subway crisis.
After months spent bickering over whether the city would contribute to this emergency fund to fix the subway, the city finally committed to spending $ 418 million toward the plan — this came with a «lock box» provision that ensures that these funds will only be used for subway repairs and nothing else.
In a statement issued shortly after the mayor's announcement, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan called for the mayor to fund subway improvements with part of the city's existing surplus.
Almost a week after City Hall denied ordering cops to remove homeless people ahead of the mayor's subway trip, O'Neill conceded Friday that the NYPD had indeed done «inspections» of the stations involved.
The MTA said Thursday that it would allow ads for a sex toy company to appear in the subway one day after the images were deemed too racy for city...
After a review from the city's Independent Budget Office highlighted steadily shrinking funding toward the MTA signal system — the ancient, frequently failing traffic lights of the subway — Cuomo pledged an extra billion in state money toward the $ 32.5 billion MTA capital plan.
The bills come after 11 post-Sandy council hearings, during which they identified two main problems with the city's handling after the storm: its struggle to help the most vulnerable citizens and to keep transportation going even when the subways were knocked out.
After a year of subway breakdowns and delays, Gov. Andrew Cuomo used his State of the State Address on Wednesday to call for a much - needed overhaul of the city's transit system — but he was short on specifics and financing.
A series of subway and commuter train crises last spring prompted the Democratic governor to declare a state of emergency for the city's transit system after predicting riders faced a «summer of hell.»
The governor is also relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis, to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.
A contract for a thousand or more new subway cars for New York City's subways hasn't yet been awarded, a year after Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled their new design features intended to boost capacity and make the ride more comfortable.
NEW YORK CITY — Subways were packed, commutes stretched for hours and streets were filled with slush, but New Yorkers pushed through their way to work and school on the first weekday after a massive blizzard dumped more than 2 feet of snow on the city.
Speaking to reporters after an unrelated bill - signing ceremony in lower Manhattan, Cuomo said, «it's the city's legal obligation to be funding» subway upgrades and improvements, «even though we stepped in on a moral level» to provide state funding.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay on Wednesday, a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.
After the DeKalb Avenue episode, Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, called on the city's Independent Budget Office to study the economic impact of subway delays.
After this year's «summer of hell» highlighted problems with the New York City subway system and the need for more investment in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, debating how to pay for transportation upgrades could dominate the 2018 legislative session in Albany.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement Tuesday called the latest trouble for the New York City subway system «unacceptable» after a derailment left dozens with minor injuries.
The thousands of colorful sticky notes that became a mass cri de coeur in the New York City subway system after the presidential election will now make their way into a book.
After this year's «summer of hell» highlighted problems with the New York City subway system and the need for more investment in the MTA, debating how to pay for transportation upgrades could dominate the 2018 legislative session in Albany.
A day after presiding over the opening of a subway line in Manhattan that had been discussed for nearly a century, MTA Chair Thomas F. Prendergast announced that he would retire as head of the New York City region's sprawling transit system.
Long delayed and about $ 2 billion over budget, the centerpiece of a transit hub linking the PATH and New York City subways is set to open early next month, nearly 15 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
After a year of subway breakdowns and delays, Gov. Andrew Cuomo used his State of the State Address to call for a much - needed overhaul of the city's transit system — but he was short on specifics and financing.
The MTA's claim that city subway stations are actually cleaner after it removed some trash cans is just garbage, the state comptroller said Tuesday.
And the city's comptroller, Scott M. Stringer, testifying immediately after Mr. de Blasio, told the state legislators that he, too, favored more city contributions to the subways.
At a news conference outside the Union Square subway station Thursday afternoon, de Blasio worked to calm the nerves of New Yorkers after news of the alleged plot, saying city officials have found no specific threat.
Just days after a Harlem subway train derailment last month where more than 30 people were injured, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the city's subways.
As they were concluding their press conference Maloney and Nadler were joined by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who said that she arrived by subway after being delayed by heavy traffic around Trump Tower.
The governor earlier this month made a point of riding the subway in New York City after potential threats were made against mass transit in western countries.
Scientists who mapped the DNA of the New York City subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findiCity subway system have backed off a claim that they discovered traces of anthrax and bubonic plague at several stations, after federal and city public health officials strongly disputed the findicity public health officials strongly disputed the findings.
Four months after Cuomo announced a state of emergency on the New York City subways, transit officials said they have reduced the average 45 - minute response time to an emergency by about half, as part of new data to be released this week.
After years of pressure from grassroots advocacy groups, the MTA board voted unanimously to ban advertising of alcoholic beverages on New York City buses, subway cars and stations, contending that the social benefits of deterring underage drinking outweighed the loss of revenue.
This came after both Cuomo and Lhota charged the city with responsibility over the subway system.
He is credited with reviving the New York City subway system in the 1980s after years of financial problems and neglected investment.
The governor also is relying on some one - time revenues from bank settlements after the financial crisis to pay for improving the New York City subways, funding hospitals and other health care providers, and paying for some day - to - day state operating expenses.
After MTA Chair Joe Lhota put forth an emergency subway action plan and asked the city and state to split the $ 836 million price tag, Governor Andrew Cuomo agreed and de Blasio balked, saying the city should not be on the hook for any more funds and insisting that the state repay money it had raided from the MTA — ironically, the same $ 456 million figure now being asked of the city.
The mayor agreed to fund the city's half of an $ 836 million short - term plan to fix the city's subway system after months of refusing to do so on the grounds that the state budget «appears to respond to the mayor's demands on behalf of the city's straphangers.»
The MTA chief, who got sky - high grades for restoring the subways within days after Hurricane Sandy struck, was the subject of much of the buzz yesterday at an Association for a Better New York breakfast that included City Council Speaker Christine Quinn as the featured speaker.
The results come after a messier - than - usual state budget process in April, and derailments and overcrowding on the New York City subway system that Cuomo is in charge of.
After the white - out revealed itself to be a fizz - out, social media (better than anything invented since the torch - bearing mob at intensifying and funneling outrage) exploded with wrath at the meteorological community, media community and public officials who shut down half the state, and the New York City subways to boot.
Days after the subway workers» union blasted Mayor de Blasio in new ads for not doing enough to bankroll the MTA, another labor group is pressuring City Hall to give more.
Kendra's Law — named after Kendra Webdale, a 32 - year - old woman who was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train in 1999 by a schizophrenic man who was not taking medication for his condition — allows judges to order certain mentally ill individuals to accept outpatient treatment and monitoring if they wish to remain at large in the community.
After La Chascona I got on the subway and headed an hour south out of the city and into the Maipo Valley to visit Chile's most famous and largest wine producer: Concha Y Toro.