Sentences with phrase «southern tier city»

As Jamestown officials intensify efforts to market the Southern Tier city as a hub for humor, the National Comedy Center has announced its headliner for the 2017 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival.

Jim Finch is town supervisor of Conklin, which borders the Southern Tier city of Binghamton, and has suffered from two devastating floods in recent years.

Jim Finch is Town Supervisor of Conklin, which borders the Southern Tier city of Binghamton, and has suffered from two devastating floods in recent years.

Not exact matches

«If she gets elected her very first vote would turn our entire state government over to Bill de Blasio and the New York City Democrats, and shift important resources to New York City at the expense of the Finger Lakes Region and the Southern Tier.

«We're proud to endorse Leslie for State Senate because she's already getting to work standing up to New York City politicians and big businesses to get Southern Tier workers our fair share,» said Jake Lake, President of CWA Local 1111.

«The hardworking people of the 52nd District in the Southern Tier did not send me to Albany to raise their taxes and send their hard - earned money to New York City,» said state Sen. Fred Akshar, who represents Binghamton and the surrounding region.

The awards ranged from over $ 80 million for the Rochester - Finger Lakes Region, Capital Region, Mohawk Valley, New York City and the Mid-Hudson Valley to over $ 60 million each for Western New York, the Southern Tier, Central New York, the North Country and Long Island.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The best - performing sites belonged to Southern Tier's Schuyler County, New York City, the Town of Wilton in the Capital Region, the Town of Penfield in the Finger Lakes and the Clarkstown Central School District in the Mid-Hudson valley.

That was enough to win support from Rep. Tom Reed (R - Corning), whose Southern Tier constituents pay less in state income taxes than those in downstate suburbs of New York City.

This development not only offers renovated and modern affordable housing in the city they love, it enhances «Southern Tier Soaring,» Governor Cuomo's successful economic development strategies that are creating new opportunities throughout the region.»

The panel — which is composed of Law, former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paul Francis, Dennis Glazer and Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz — has heard presentations over the last several months from developers who want to build resort - style casinos in three regions of the state north New York City: The Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Capital Region and the Finger Lakes / Southern Tier.

Hawkins said Cuomo's renewable energy proposals to increase the cap in net metering to six percent, to promote shared renewable energy microgrids, invest in renewable energy in the Southern Tier and upstate cities, invest in research on battery storage for renewable energy, and others are good but only baby steps in the right direction.

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The other two in the Southern Tier region are in Tioga County and Johnson City.

Utica - area Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi says the National Weather Service knew as early as Monday that New York City would not bear the brunt of the storm, but no one was alerted — leaving communities in the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier to fend on their own.

We are committed to being a leader in providing patients with access to a better life, from the New York City area to Buffalo and Long Island to the Southern Tier» says Teddy Scott, PharmaCannis CEO.»

Along the south side of the Allegany River, visible from the Southern Tier expressway in Cattaraugus County, a New York City based company called EverPower wants to build a wind farm.

A city in New York's Southern Tier now has dozens of new, affordable apartments, including nearly two dozen set aside for people recovering from mental illnesses.

«It was a city all to itself,» said Roger Luther, President of the Preservation Association of the Southern Tier (PAST).

Western New York: 65,600 Finger Lakes: 55,478 Southern Tier: 27,558 Central New York: 37,047 Mohawk: 21,121 North Country: 19,271 Capital Region: 54,518 Hudson Valley: 134,863 New York City: 483,912 Long Island: 191,632

The Expo would take advantage of the assets already on the plaza — like the State Museum, the art collection and the theaters — and add revolving expositions of the Adirondack Park, Long Island, New York City, the Hudson Valley, the Southern Tier, western New York and the Finger Lakes.

In March 2016 the awards were made for 162 projects statewide with $ 673 million for 73 projects in New York City, $ 112 million for 16 projects on Long Island, $ 230 million for 15 projects in the Mid-Hudson region, $ 156 million for 10 projects in Western New York, $ 101 million for 6 projects in Central New York, $ 95 million for 10 projects in the Finger Lakes region, $ 74 million for 6 projects in the Southern Tier, $ 55 million for 13 projects in the North Country, $ 40 million for 4 projects in the Mohawk Valley, and $ 17 million for 9 projects in the Capital region.32

There are 14 counties that don't appear as the sites of any meetings or official events in his schedules through August: Putnam, in the New York City suburbs; Columbia and Washington in the Capital Region; Central New York's Cortland; Livingston, Orleans, Wayne, and Wyoming in the Finger Lakes; Fulton in the Mohawk Valley; the Southern Tier's Chemung, Chenango, Steuben, and Tioga; and Western New York's Allegany.

The casinos are being eyed for areas north of New York City: the Southern Tier, the Catskills and the Albany area.

That means only three zones north of New York City are eligible for casino development: The Catskills, the Albany area and the Southern Tier.

Due to agreements struck by the Cuomo administration with the state's American Indian tribes and the enabling legislation approved by lawmakers earlier this year, the casinos built in the first phase of construction will be limited to north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.

Due to agreement with the state's Indian nations, and enabling language approved by the Assembly and Senate last year, the casinos in the first phase of construction will be limited to areas north of the New York City area: The Capital Region, the Southern Tier and the Catskills.

A report from the Empire Center on New York State Policy released on Tuesday found the city of Binghamton in the state's Southern Tier has the highest effective property tax rate of any city.

He cited examples: «In Johnson City, down in the Binghamton area in the Southern Tier, that was hit hard by Tropical Storm Lee.

Cuomo is not popular in the Southern Tier, though he is better liked in many other parts of the state, including New York City, where most of his base supporters reside.

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It connects Binghamton, a city of under 46,000 people in the Southern Tier, to the international community, offering English classes, citizenship classes, referrals to immigration lawyers and refugee resettlement services for immigrants in the Binghamton community.

Southern Tier Regional EDC representative Tom Tranter said, «Housing that will be available in Lamphear Court fills a void in the City of Corning.

On behalf of the City of Binghamton, I can say with complete confidence that we are all very grateful to have such an incredible organization such as Southern Tier Solar Works investing in and educating our community every single day on how to save money and go green.»

Johnson City finished the year with an overall record of 10 - 6, good enough for second place in the Division II Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC).

The Syracuse City School District has closed schools for Wednesday, as have most central New York, the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier.

«We are currently re-deploying assets from New York City and Long Island to Central New York and the Southern Tier,» Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

«We are currently re-deploying assets from New York City and Long Island to Central New York and the Southern Tier.»

United Way of the Southern Tier and Corning Incorporated teamed up to provide school supplies to new kindergarten registrants in the Elmira City School District.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Johnson City on Wednesday pledged to reduce unemployment in the state's long - struggling Southern Tier region to «zero.»

«It's a long trip from the southern tier of Staten Island out to our offices in Long Island City.»

Unemployment stands at 8.7 percent statewide, and 9.8 percent in the city; in Southern Tier counties, it averages 8.9 percent.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that the state economic development funds will be awarded to 10 regions: western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, central New York, Mohawk Valley, North Country, Capital Region, Mid-Hudson, New York City and Long Island.

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The events will be held in Central New York, Long Island, Mid-Hudson Valley, New York City, Southern Tier and Western New York, including 2 in the Bronx.

That view was reinforced by two developments last week: Cuomo's aides proposed a new energy plan for the state's future that, unlike previous plans, made no mention of fracking in the Southern Tier, and Cuomo himself named former New York City Councilman James Gennaro, a fierce fracking opponent, as a deputy commissioner at Martens» environmental agency.

But relatively few people live in the Southern Tier, compared to hundreds of thousands of Democrats who live in New York City.