Sentences with phrase «york outer borough»

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And Redfin — which has a small presence in New York's outer boroughs — raised nearly $ 210 million before going public last summer.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has insisted that congestion pricing in New York City would be too burdensome on outer - borough car owners — though a new analysis suggests otherwise.

Fillmore Real Estate, Brooklyn's largest independent brokerage, is joining the Real Estate Board of New York, significantly increasing the trade group's presence as it continues to expand its reach into the outer boroughs.

In 2015, a coalition called Move New York offered a failed proposal that built on Bloomberg's plan, by also reducing the tolls already in place on such outer - borough bridges as the Verrazano - Narrows and Bronx - Whitestone, which serve areas with few mass transit options.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.

State Assembly member David Weprin told the New York Times that the report didn't take into account how outer borough commuters would need to make their way into the congestion zone to run errands or the fact these drivers also have to shell out money on parking and gas.

A group of outer borough lawmakers gathered in Brooklyn today to unveil a bill to stop New York City's recently passed plan to levy a five - cent surcharge on paper and plastic bags.

Look for the campaigns to focus on places in New York with the most Republicans: Long Island, New York City's northern suburbs, the outer boroughs, and the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

In his first year, Cuomo shepherded through the legalization of same - sex marriage, flouted protesters who had dubbed him «Governor One Percent» by passing tax reforms that increase taxes on the rich, and laid the political groundwork for a brand new convention center to be built in one of New York City's outer boroughs — all largely outside of the public eye.

He's passed nine bills in the last three years, including measures to raise the minimum wage, increase penalties for wage theft, and add the light - green taxis for New York's outer boroughs.

«I'm really excited to introduce this man who is outer - borough working dad, a public school parent, a lifelong progressive reformer and a leader who champions New York as a city of neighborhoods and families,» she said.

The study shows that only a small fraction of people living in the outer boroughs of New York City would find their commutes affected by the toll: four percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two percent of working poor.

Downstate economic growth has been highly dependent on Wall Street, and many residents of New York City's outer boroughs are still struggling.

In the end, his margins were particularly high in Erie County, where his running mate Kathy Hochul has her home base, and in the outer boroughs of New York City, where he had backing from the county organizations.

The New York Gaming Association, which believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's casino expansion proposal would put its members at a competitive disadvantage, has commissioned a poll that finds voters aren't big on the governor's Plan B if the Legislature fails to pass his gaming bill: Expand VLTs across the state, including in New York City's outer boroughs.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis by a transit - advocacy group.

While the Real Estate Board of New York strongly backed de Blasio's proposal, there are some in the industry who fear the elimination of condos from the program could all but end the development of small, outer - borough projects that are affordable to middle - income New Yorkers.

Asking for a fare increase as city officials are trying to get a new class of cab in the outer boroughs isn't playing hardball, Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, told Gotham Gazette today.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis published Tuesday by a transit - advocacy group.

With Cuomo's strong connections to organized labor, Democratic moderates upstate, and Latinos, ethnic Catholics and Orthodox Jews in New York City's outer boroughs, it's highly unlikely that Nixon can beat Cuomo.

The break for New York City developers expired at the beginning of 2016, and Senate Republicans had backed budget language that would both renew the program and expand it into outer borough condos, a move seemingly designed to benefit breakaway Democrat Simcha Felder.

«Even in heavily Democratic New York, people should realize he could have a big impact for the ticket upstate and in the outer boroughs, which elected Rudy two times.»

-- Avella's theoretical opening — POLITICO New York's Laura Nahmias: De Blasio's middling poll numbers have provided a theoretical opening for a Democratic challenger, but it's unclear how well Avella — an outer - borough moderate and member of the Independent Democratic Conference in Albany — fits that bill.

Regional Investments to Move New York City Forward - Investments in New York City's outer boroughs - $ 50 million investment in the Montefiore Health System - Transform health and wellness in Brooklyn through measures such as affordable housing with «features such as exercise rooms, rooftop gardens, and health clinics,» the expansion of New York's Land Bank Program, and the establishment of «Brooklyn as a primary location for the FreshConnect Mobile Markets and FreshConnect Checks program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.»

While many of the governor's proposals were known before he gave his address, unveiled over the last week in news conferences and press releases, among the new announcements were a number of New York City - specific initiatives, including several aimed at boosting each of the «outer boroughs.»

Lynch told POLITICO New York there is «a lot that needs to happen» in the «outer - outer boroughs,» like improved traffic and pedestrian safety in a district where a majority of constituents drive, improving public transportation options and infrastructure and bringing more attention to the challenges of being a homeowner.

When it comes to leasing volume for industrial space in New York City's outer boroughs, UPS is delivering.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio says city inspectors are taking advantage of small business owners in the outer boroughs.

Schwartz has, in fact, garnered a good deal more support from the same outer borough leaders and driver advocates that either rejected former mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing bid or stayed on the sidelines, including the New York State Motor Truck Association, the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, and Councilman Weprin.

A measure that would have expanded livery cab coverage to the outer boroughs of New York City will not be revisted during the extraordinary session.

«Everybody you talk to, pro or con, believes that some kind of road pricing plan is going to come to New York City,» he said Tuesday, during a press conference to formally unveil Move NY, the (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz - designed proposal to toll the East River bridges and 60th Street, lower tolls in the outer boroughs where mass transit options are scarce, and, in so doing, raise money for the M.T.A.

The leafy outer borough district, according to the New York City Districting Commission, is 14 percent Hispanic, 32 percent white and 37 percent Asian, which includes residents of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi descent.

This weekend two of my favorite people visited New York and we took a trip to a beloved outer borough where Amish - style hats are on the list of immediately accepted trends along with dreadlocks, fedoras and flannels.

«Good Time» might give the theater audiences the view that dealing liquid LSD would benefit not some 1960's style hippies but rather the low life elements in New York's outer borough of Queens.

you wondered... but the fact was that Brooklyn had never ever crossed your mind back then, for New York was Manhattan and Manhattan only, and the outer boroughs were as alien to you as the distant countries of Oceania or the Arctic Circle.»

We provide veterinary services to the greater New York City metropolitan area including Manhattan, the outer boroughs, Westchester, Rockland, and northern New Jersey.

Manhattan has its big players — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA — and its chic downtown spots — the newly opened Whitney Museum of American Art, Bowery's New Museum — but what do the outer boroughs of New York City have to offer when it comes to museums?

City Focus: New York (Part 1): In the first of a two - part focus on New York's evolving, post-Sandy contemporary art scene, ArtReview takes a look at the latest gallery developments in Chelsea, on the Upper East Side and in the outer boroughs.

As the familiar expires and historic communities loose grip on their neighborhoods to the tune of post industrial triumph and gentrification, this is perhaps a perfect moment to pause and take account of the great creative energies that are born of New York's outer boroughs in transition.

Paris has it's arrondissements, Shanghai has it's municipal districts, and New York has Manhattan and it's outer boroughs.

With a scholarship from the Academy, Struth traveled to New York in 1977, photographing over a six - month period the desolate neighborhoods of Tribeca, Wall Street, Soho, and the outer boroughs.

Notwithstanding the calligraphic urgency of Alechinsky's Vanish (1959) or the taut constructivism of Jorge Oteiza, the non-New York - based art at the Guggenheim works best, if at all, as period pieces — outer - borough period pieces, one is tempted to say.

Where I live now, short trips in the car are usually less convenient than walking, because parking is scarce and driving in even the outer boroughs of New York City involves frustrating levels of traffic.

Mr. Pinsky shared his personal journey in the New York Metro real estate community and discussed RXR's emerging submarkets strategy for the outer boroughs and the suburban downtowns in the tristate area, which includes New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

Below that come NYC's outer boroughs; Cape Cod, Massachusetts; and Hudson Valley, New York.

For example, in New York City, the outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan are labeled «suburban» to differentiate them from the more high - priced neighborhoods in Manhattan.

Retailers who corner New York's outer boroughs have the added advantage of marketing to both residents and tourists, who are staying with friends or relatives who live outside Manhattan.