Sentences with phrase «island city into»

In collaboration with chashama, Nicholas Cohn Art Projects will transform an industrial building in Long Island City into a venue for socially motivated visual art.

The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum was founded by Noguchi in 1985, helping to pioneer the transformation of Long Island City into an arts destination.

Not exact matches

In 2015 Guy Laliberté floated the idea of redeveloping Saint Helen's Island, a heritage site owned by the city of Montreal, into a «memorial park» for the dead.

After affiliating with medical groups on Long Island and in New York City, ProHealth Dental is expanding into New Jersey.

The trend is blowing east from New York City as Long Island's traditional offices increasingly morph into open - concept spaces

Almost two million people call the 13 - mile - long island home, as many as 5 million can commute into the city every day and over 40 million tourists visit every year.

The new restaurant is the first of 10 locations the franchisees have committed to develop on Long Island, and becomes the foundation of a Northeast expansion effort in which The Greene Turtle hopes to develop in all five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, New Jersey, Connecticut, and further north into New England.

First opened in Ocean City, Maryland, in 1976, The Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille ® today includes 46 locations in markets across Maryland and extending into Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Long Island, New York.

Of the five boroughs that make up New York City, the one hardest to bring into focus is Staten Island.

The governor signed into law a $ 25.8 billion state education spending plan that includes a $ 129 million boost in funding for Long Island, and a $ 386.8 million bump for New York City.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

Intro 656 will cut the city's funding for the program that has turned Rikers Island into an unorthodox Customs detention center.

The need for a study arose after the county began examining New York City's plan to reopen 23 of its shuttered Queens wells that dip into the aquifer system under geographic Long Island during its upstate aqueduct - repair project, Martins said.

Two months after she proposed the plan, the Long Island Rail Road has agreed to City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's (D - Middle Village) request to let the community turn a dilapidated newsstand in Ridgewood into open space for the community.

«It's repugnant to me that we need the Trump Administration to come to New York City and tell us we're violating civil rights on Rikers Island, or for the Trump Administration to come into the New York City Housing Authority and say, «You're mistreating people and you're incompetent in your management,»» Cuomo said.

Backers of the fee note that New Yorkers consume 9 billion disposable bags a year, which clutter parks, cling to trees, accrue into islands in the world's oceans, strangle marine life and cost the city sanitation system an estimated $ 12.5 million annually to process.

The state's highest court in a ruling on Tuesday found that a special prosecutor can continue an investigation into whether the labor - backed Working Families Party broke election laws during a 2009 Staten Island city council race.

CITY HALL — The sweeping transformation of nearly 6 percent of Staten Island's landscape into the largest city park to be built in more than a century is facing funding and planning uncertainty under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island is wading into the city's mayoral race, launching a campaign committee last week as she makes a final decision about a run.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - City officials toured St. George on Wednesday to discuss 55 Stuyvesant Place, a newly vacant building that officials hope to turn into a hub for innovation.

As a result of the Attorney General's investigation into high gas prices during Hurricane Sandy, Attorney General Schneiderman secured over $ 300,000 in penalties and costs from more than 40 gas stations in New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley that gouged their customers.

The claims are on the rise at a time when the city is pouring money into trying to reform Rikers Island, spending $ 112,000 per inmate a year and boosting its budget with a plan to hire more correction officers.

W.F.P. WOES CONTINUE — Rachel Goodman, City Councilman Brad Lander's chief of staff, has been indicted by a Staten Island grand jury as part of an ongoing investigation by special prosecutor Roger Adler into the 2009 campaign of Councilwoman Deborah Rose of Staten Island.

WEST BRIGHTON — More than three years into his first term as mayor, Bill de Blasio will host his second Staten Island town hall April 13 as part of his week spent working remotely in the borough, a City Hall spokeswoman said.

The ride sharing service Uber, which already operates in New York City, is making a big push to move into upstate cities like Syracuse, and Long Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Simmering Republican Party tensions over the Mid-Island City Council primary and last year's South Shore Assembly race have burst into the open, with City Councilman James Oddo saying he and borough GOP chair Robert Scamardella haven't spoken since August.

Mr. Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney, handled the investigation into the police chokehold death of Eric Garner, an inquiry that touched off demonstrations across the city and beyond when a grand jury declined to deliver an indictment.

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

City Board of Elections (BOE) commissioners last week ruled, 7 - 2, that Tabacco did not have enough valid signatures to get into an Independence primary against McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), who is backed by the party.

Yesterday, Common Cause / NY released a critique of the Commission's proposed plan for the New York City Council, highlighting three major points of issue: the ratio of representation between the Bronx and Manhattan, Council District 8, and the removal of Randall's Island from Manhattan into Queens.

Brooklyn Councilman Mark Treyger is pressing the city to landmark Coney Island's iconic boardwalk in an effort to stop parts of it from being converted into concrete and fake wood.

The Category 1 storm will whip up large waves and life - threatening rip currents off Long Island and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday, while pummeling the city with rain and fierce winds, the National Weather Service predicted.

Long Island Rail Road riders heading into the city experienced some major delays Tuesday morning.

«Broadway Stages and its owner and president, Gina Argento, appear to be involved parties in State and Federal investigations into campaign contributions to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,» DiNapoli's office wrote to state officials on Dec. 21, according to a letter obtained by The Post that was first reported by the Staten Island Advance.

The ride sharing service Uber, which already operates in New York City, is making a big push to move into upstate and Long Island.

Note: In 1897, New York County (the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx), Kings County (the borough of Brooklyn), Richmond County (the borough of Staten Island) and the Western part of Queens County (the borough of Queens) were consolidated into the present - day City of New York.

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The borough president also intends to criticize the city's decision to put $ 170 million into renovating the Horizon Juvenile Center by The Hub, part of its plan to move 16 - and 17 - year - olds off of Rikers Island.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday signed into law a $ 25.8 billion state education spending plan that includes a $ 129 million boost in funding for Long Island, and a $ 386.8 million bump for New York City.

But that familiar vision of Staten Island no longer exists on its North Shore, where the borough's first black elected official, Democrat Debi Rose, was voted into a City Council seat in 2009.

Inserting himself into a polarizing dispute, Cuomo in December 1989 signed a controversial law allowing Staten Island residents to vote on secession from New York City.

Federal investigators had also looked into payments that Singh, the Long Island restaurateur, had made to Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

A winter storm warning will go into effect at midnight Wednesday and last until 4 a.m. Thursday for northern New Jersey, New York City, western Long Island, the lower Hudson Valley and most of Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service.

As far as creating those numbers, Hawkins said his campaign is looking into expanding into the downstate New York City, Long Island, and Westchester area where he's not as well - known as his opponents.

A federal investigation is being launched into what role New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio played in the sale of Long Island College Hospital.

A Brooklyn City Councilman, Mark Treyger, is looking to make it illegal for police officers to have sex with people in their custody in the wake of an investigation into two Coney Island detectives accused of raping a teenager.

New York — Senators Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), Jesse Hamilton (D - Brooklyn), and Senator - elect Marisol Alcantara (D - Manhattan), joined by New York City School advocates, unveiled a stomach - turning investigative report, «School Lunch Flunks: An Investigation into the Dirtiest New York City Public School Cafeterias» that examined sanitary conditions in cafeterias across the cCity School advocates, unveiled a stomach - turning investigative report, «School Lunch Flunks: An Investigation into the Dirtiest New York City Public School Cafeterias» that examined sanitary conditions in cafeterias across the cCity Public School Cafeterias» that examined sanitary conditions in cafeterias across the citycity.

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ST. GEORGE — The city will hire a consultant to see if Staten Island Ferry service can be extended into Midtown or Wall Street.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Republican candidate for mayor Paul Massey brought his message that Mayor Bill de Blasio is «corrupt» to Staten Island on Wednesday, one day after holding his first press conference on the steps of City Hall, lambasting the mayor for the numerous investigations into his fundraising activISLAND, N.Y. - Republican candidate for mayor Paul Massey brought his message that Mayor Bill de Blasio is «corrupt» to Staten Island on Wednesday, one day after holding his first press conference on the steps of City Hall, lambasting the mayor for the numerous investigations into his fundraising activIsland on Wednesday, one day after holding his first press conference on the steps of City Hall, lambasting the mayor for the numerous investigations into his fundraising activities.