Sentences with phrase «york than the block»

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Today, in pockets of major northern metropolises on the continent, including Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago and New York City, it's difficult to walk more than a few blocks in the winter without passing a Canada Goose jacket emblazoned with the red and white Artic Program trademark, the company's distinctive logo.

New York (CNN)- While all eyes are on lower Manhattan, nearly 200 people gathered more than 100 blocks north of Ground Zero on Friday night to honor 9/11 families and to recognize a decade of interfaith work at the Interchurch Center.

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faced a throng of angry protesters calling for safer streets when he arrived for his morning workout at the Park Slope Armory YMCA, less than one block from where two children were fatally run over the day before.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo embraced a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, introducing a bill to outlaw them by next year day after Earth Day and a little more than a year after he blocked a 5 - cent surcharge that New York City had sought to place on single - use plastic bags.

«Community members throughout New York find it offensive that legislators like George Amedore, who have blocked ethics reforms and treat their public service as a hobby rather than a full - time job, would try to give themselves a pay hike,» Niccoli wrote.

Less than a block from the precinct station house where New York City Police Officer Brian Moore worked, a Queens street was renamed for the officer killed in the line of duty earlier this year.

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Lawyers representing more than a dozen parents in three lawsuits are urging a state judge to block a magazine executive from becoming New York City schools chancellor starting next week.

The Manhattan appeal is more than just heritage — as Bloomberg reported, each New York Fashion Week brings in $ 900 million to the New York economy and many of the office spaces and production centers are within blocks of each other.

That's almost 1 % of all possible zip codes, and most likely, more than that, as many numbers remain unassigned nationally, and New York City has many buildings and blocks with specialized zip codes.

ASC occupied an entire city block in Manhattan and had more than 10,000 aquarium and aquatic products, before there was a New York Aquarium, bus and school tours used to visit ASC to learn about fish, plants and aquatic species.

It blocks more than 2,000 tracking sites, loads your web pages 27 % faster and was even named the best privacy tool by the New York Times in 2016.

There are worse things you could do with The New York Times than cut blocks of color out of its photos and advertisements and glue them together, as Suzanne Caporael does, into elegant, postcard - size, abstract collages.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York will sell more than four hundred photographs in a series of auctions over the course of this year beginning with four works that will be on the block at Christie's New York's photographs day sale on October 10.

So it's puzzling to hear about a recent effort in New York to block expansion of an Upstate natural gas storage plant in the name of a «climate emergency,» as one activist put it — puzzling because natural gas is doing more to reduce U.S. emissions than any other fuel.