Sentences with phrase «vladeck public housing development»

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Obama administration has announced a final rule prohibiting smoking in public housing developments nationwide.

«New York's most successful public housing developments are economically integrated.

As a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation's public housing developments and with formulating policies which contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever homeownership rate.

The budget laid out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and members of the City Council designates funds for crime prevention in public housing developments, enhanced services for inmates, free school lunch for middle schoolers, child care for low - income families, and...

In response, de Blasio said last week the city would spend $ 200 million expediting major heating upgrades at 20 public housing developments within eight to 20 months.

The Public Housing Modernization Program was established in 1980 to provide grants to State - aided public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for necessary repairs and improvements.

New York City's public housing developments are getting a new independent monitor to oversee repairs and upgrades.

Over the next several days, some 200 union volunteers will start a lit drop to get 200,000 pieces for state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and other Dem statewide contenders out to NYC public housing developments.

In 2008, as Manhattan borough president, Mr. Stringer produced a report entitled «Land Rich, Pocket Poor» that explored potential development opportunities on the large tracts of open ground area in most public housing developments.

Along with Phase I — which was recently completed — Phase II is part of the three - phase revitalization of a 61 - year old public housing development that will produce a total of 180 affordable, energy - efficient apartments.

The funding is provided through the State's Public Housing Modernization Drug Elimination program, part of a modernization program that provides grants to public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for needed repairs and improvements.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye, joined by state Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, lead a tour of the authority's Boston Secor Houses, as King discusses nearly $ 1.5 million in funding for projects to install security cameras and renovate the public housing development's senior center and track and field; 3475 Bivona St., the Bronx.

If enacted, Trump's cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would put hundreds of thousands of Americans in immediate danger of losing their homes in public housing developments or privately owned buildings.

«Public housing developments should honor leaders who stood for the founding principles of equality and freedom, not those who stood against them.»

«But you who have lived here, and persevered all those challenges and difficulties, not only in Schomburg, but in the public housing developments that surround this neighborhood, kept the faith.»

Proud residents of First Houses on the Lower East Side, New York's first ever public housing development in the city, are worried about the...

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments, after a complaint filed by members of Black Lives Matter Buffalo and other community groups accused the department of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing.»

After weeks of persistent heating outages at public housing developments during a bone - chilling stretch of winter, de Blasio is finally committing $ 13 million toward improving the city's response to the crisis.

In the years since William Henderson was convicted in 2005, the Henry Hudson Townhouses, a public housing development where the murder occurred, has been razed.

«It's another example of what our officers confront every single day, keeping us safe not only on the streets of New York City, but in the stairwells and the hallways of our public housing developments,» said Mayor de Blasio.

Should NYCHA give up its controversial plan to generate revenue by adding mixed - income 50/50 percent (market / affordable) buildings at the Wyckoff Gardens and Holmes Towers public housing developments?

«Anyone who suggests otherwise obviously hasn't been to one of the public housing developments in my senate district in Manhattan or across the five boroughs.»

The Buffalo News first reported that the investigation is taking place after their use of traffic checkpoints near public housing developments.

Under the Leadership of Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly Majority fought hard to secure much needed capital funding for the public housing developments owned and operated by New York City House Authority (NYCHA).

«The results show we have a long way to go to keep our NYCHA residents safe,» Stringer said of the report, which recently surveyed more than 500 NYCHA resident from 10 Lower East Side and East Village public housing developments.

Last week, Schneiderman's office launched a separate investigation of the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments in response to a complaint filed by Black Lives Matter - Buffalo.

At a 1984 rally for local Democratic district leaders, he warned that a large public housing development in his district, the Sheepshead Bay - Nostrand Houses, was in danger of «tipping,» according to a Democrat in attendance.

Problems within the city's public housing developments have been on the rise for years.

The center, located at 334 Madison St., is in the Vladeck public housing development.

Referencing the supporters from public housing developments in attendance, Mendez added, «She was content being district leader and never seeking higher office, except all of these people here — not once, not twice but multiple times — asked Alice to run.»

The New York State Sex Offender registry revealed that 30 sex offenders illegally called The Bronx's public housing developments home.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Councilman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx), joined by Councilman Mark Treyger (D - Brooklyn) and outraged New York City Housing Development tenants, released an alarming investigative report on Tuesday, «Sex Offenders in Public Housing: NYCHA Residents at Risk,» detailing a sharp rise in predators illegally residing in public housing developments across the city.

«This report's findings are of grave concern to all of us who care about public safety in public housing developments.

Area homes, businesses and public housing developments suffered heavy

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

«The life of a black man was valued less than that of a cat or dog,» said Ms. Barron, whose district covers the public housing development where Mr. Gurley lived.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

De Blasio administration officials are arguing that what Cuomo is requesting is not an actual emergency declaration and are calling on him to provide more money for the public housing developments — which have about 400,000 residents — and approve design - build authority, which would speed up the construction process and reduce costs.

Mr. Liang shot and killed the unarmed Gurley in an unlit stairwell inside an East New York public housing development.

A trio of Democratic pols lashed out today at the Bloomberg administration during an announcement of 17 long - awaited security cameras at the Brooklyn public housing development where two children were stabbed, one fatally, more than a week ago.

Millions of dollars from the federal stimulus budget were allocated in 2009 to improve the elevators in the city's public housing developments.

A slew of city officials, with the notable exception of Mayor Bill de Blasio, joined Mr. Cuomo onstage when he signed the executive order earlier this month in the crowded gymnasium of a public housing development in East Harlem.

The ten most rodent - infested public housing developments — home to about 23,000 rats — are about to get a massive extermination treatment, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office announced Tuesday.

The Alfred E. Smith Houses, a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority

A total of 792 Black adolescents, ages 11 to 21, who lived in nine public housing developments in four major U.S. cities (including two in North Philadelphia), participated in the study.

Located in Vinegar Hill, a gentrifying neighborhood between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO, PS 307 has long served children who live in the Farragut public housing development across the street.

Years before Louisiana's post-Hurricane Katrina education reform movement and the establishment of the Louisiana Scholarship Program, a New Orleans businessman would ride through the public housing developments of city.

BiblioTech Administrator Laura Cole shed some light on the new location «We will be located in commercial space in a new public housing development.

Alemany Farms Staff and Volunteers who have revitalized Alemany Farm, — a forgotten 4.5 acre of land situated near a 165 - unit public housing development beset by high unemployment and violence — into an oasis of opportunity.

Here the room is inhabited by Rowland's sculpture containing the image of nearby public housing development Marble Hill Houses.