Sentences with phrase «york city crowd»

With Wednesday's split, Valesky is «divorcing himself of the New York City crowd,» DeFrancisco said.

In advance of our trip, Jon and I speculated that because Stratton draws a big New York City crowd the food would options would be really good.

Not exact matches

As a 20 - something with very little cooking experience and a strong aversion to crowded New York City supermarkets, I decided to give the service a try.

The city might be in such a state that institutions of all types feel it's necessary to throw resources at it, creating opportunities for young entrepreneurs who won't have to compete with as crowded a field as they'd find in New York or Silicon Valley, but that doesn't exactly solve the problem of what to do on a Saturday night.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

But the bigger picture for the New York City company is how to excel in a marketplace that's becoming increasingly crowded with low - cost options.

he asked the crowd of investors at the Grant's Interest Rates Observer conference in New York City on Tuesday.

New York Fashion Week has returned to the Big Apple to wreak havoc in these city streets (and by havoc we mean crowds of thirsty wannabes, lots of skinny people smoking, and fashion editors complaining about things that others would give their right leg to experience).

Yes, all the video game people were there, and from the looks of the crowd, just about every 13 - year - old boy in the metropolitan New York City area showed up.

It doesn't matter whether you live somewhere sparse like New Mexico, or crowded like New York City.

He took particular note of scenes of cheering crowds: flag - wavers in Times Square and at Ground Zero in New York City, baseball fans in Philadelphia, patriots in Boston, enthusiastic students on....

♦ About twenty - five children, ages six to twelve, sing to a large crowd gathered at New York's city hall.

His fascinating analyses of crowd behavior on New York City streets, using time - lapse photography and extensive notes and graphs, are published in his 1988 book City: Rediscovering the Center.

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

In the summer of 1986, when the Greenwich Village bookstores were crowded with Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City — a novel whose method of demonstrating the bankruptcy of our culture, one critic said, is to chronicle its parties — and Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Don DeLillo's White Noise, all in shiny paperback covers, I remembered a New York Times review that called Richard Ford's The Sportswriter a novel about a good man.

He lives as an unknown, in isolation, a stranger amid the crowds of New York City.

The New York City Department of Investigation disclosed last fall that their supervisors urged pregnant women correction officers in New York City — mostly minority women — to obtain abortions («Women Given Cruelest Choice Now Fight Back,» New York Times, Oct. 21, 1989) The lower levels of the criminal justice system receive little funding, and New York City prisons are crowded.

The New York City Wine and Food Festival drew a crowd of about 55,000 passionate gourmands and aficionados and raised $ 1 million for the nation's leading hunger - relief organizations.

«New York City is a beautiful, one - of - a-kind place, and the people who are willing to do what it takes to live here — deal with the crowds and the commotion and the noise — deserve a little sonic gift like this,» Murphy said.

Whether it's a hearty pot of soup in the winter or an abundance of vegetables come summer, Kennedy likes the sense of home the dinner table offers in a place as crowded and anonymous as New York City.

The problem of crowded skies, and there is a problem, no mistake about it, is pretty much confined to the densely traveled commercial airline routes linking the big cities, especially the traffic patterns near such metropolitan airports as Chicago's O'Hare, Los Angeles» International and New York's Kennedy and La Guardia.

New York City is grimey, cold, crowded... ask me how I know?

Prior to that, the New York Giants produced a crowd between estimated between 500,000 and 1 million fans, albeit in a city with a population of 8.3 million people.

Last week in New York City, Graf was cheered more loudly than both Seles, whose own personal travails have made her a crowd favorite, and Davenport, the first U.S. - born No. 1 since Chris Evert in 1985.

The fact is, more kids bred to play in professional sports daydreamed about playing for the crowds of New York or some other big city, not for fill - in - the - blank small - market crowd.

A deadly attack on a crowd in New York City.

The Rev. Al Sharpton may have very well introduced the next Democratic nominee when he welcomed a quintet of potential 2020 primary contenders to chilly New York City for a «temperature tour,» as the host put it, ahead of what's expected to be a hot and crowded nominating contest.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

«Mayor de Blasio, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and now myself as the City Council speaker all are affirming and are an example of what the electorate has said they want, which is a new direction in the way that the City of New York in lead,» she told the crowd.

The former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, reportedly made a tasteless jab at former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, joking to a crowd of GOP donors gathered at Donald Trump's Mar - a-Lago ballroom about her weight.

Singer Lorde said she loves the New York City subway, despite getting stuck on a crowded, overheated F train for four hours recently.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (L) and current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wave to the crowd during the St. Patrick's Day Parade March 17, 2005 in New York.

The crowded field includes both seasoned New York political operatives and political neophytes, all seeking to replace Garodnick, who has represented the district for nearly 12 years and whose constituents regularly push him to seek city - or state - wide office, which he may eventually do.

In a recent study, the Partnership for New York City found that congestion costs the city $ 20 billion annually in lost time and revenue; if nothing is done to «discourage cars and trucks from crowding the streets and highways of the region during the busiest times of the day,» that'll be a staggering hit of $ 100 billion to the city economy over the next five yeCity found that congestion costs the city $ 20 billion annually in lost time and revenue; if nothing is done to «discourage cars and trucks from crowding the streets and highways of the region during the busiest times of the day,» that'll be a staggering hit of $ 100 billion to the city economy over the next five yecity $ 20 billion annually in lost time and revenue; if nothing is done to «discourage cars and trucks from crowding the streets and highways of the region during the busiest times of the day,» that'll be a staggering hit of $ 100 billion to the city economy over the next five yecity economy over the next five years.

Reinvent Albany was proud to join lead sponsors Citizens Union and NY Law School, co-sponsors League of Women Voters NYC and NYPIRG, and a sell - out crowd on November 20th where we heard all of the candidates vying to be Speaker of the New York City Council discuss their priorities, proposals and vision for New York City.

Last night at the Empire State Pride Agenda's Fall Dinner for New York City's gay elite, keynote speaker Governor David Paterson thanked his embattled chief of staff, Charles O'Byrne, for attending the gala, adding that the former Jesuit priest «brought his own minstrel corps this evening,» to a round of guffaws from the dandyish crowd.

On Sunday, April 26, New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer toured Starling Avenue, the heart of the Bangladeshi community in the Bronx, with Assemblymember Luis Sepulveda, Maf Uddin, Founder and President of the Alliance of South Asian American Labor, and a large crowd of business and community leaders.

«Our work very much continues,» Quinn said, reminding the crowd that New York City still has three times the rate of infection of the rest of the country.

Mayor de Blasio vowed to take New York City in «a new progressive direction,» telling a crowd of 5,000 gathered Wednesday for his inauguration at City Hall: «We won't wait...

«When Scott is elected mayor, New Yorkers can expect a representative who is focused on making New York a cleaner, greener city, preserving its affordability and the integrity of our varied communities,» she gushed in the invitation to the Chelsea fundraiser, where she sung his praises to the crowd.

Attendees at Weprin's birthday party included Public Advocate Letitia James, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (who spoke about Weprin's expertise on financial matters), Rep. Joe Crowley, chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization, and Queens borough president Melinda Katz, who served with Weprin in the Council before running in a crowded primary against him for City Comptroller in 2009.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The Democratic field for New York City mayor got a little more crowded Wednesday with the announcement that Anthony Weiner is entering the race, but his fellow candidates didn't seem too concerned.

A few moments later, Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the New York City Council, gives a short speech to the crowd.

(CNN)- A little more than a month after entering New York City's high - profile mayoral race, Anthony Weiner has inched ahead for the first time in the crowded Democratic primary, a new poll indicates.

At a recent fundraiser for the Bobov Hasidic group attended by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council member David Greenfield told the crowd that de Blasio «did not forget his friends.»

If museums, theaters and zoos in New York City seem more crowded lately, don't blame the tourists.

«This is not just a New York problem,» Cuomo told a crowd of supporters ahead of the bus tour's start in New York City.

Meanwhile, Cuomo is taking the brunt of the blame for the ongoing problems with New York City subways this spring, as city residents continue to grapple with slow - moving trains, delays and crowdCity subways this spring, as city residents continue to grapple with slow - moving trains, delays and crowdcity residents continue to grapple with slow - moving trains, delays and crowding.

The man accused of driving a truck into onto a crowded pedestrian and bicycle path in New York City, killing eight and injuring a dozen others, has pleaded not guilty to murder and terrorism - related charges.

Engineering difficulties because of the terrain of New York State and the unique issues of New York City brought on by urban crowding have had to be overcome since the state was young.