Sentences with phrase «against city inspectors»

Marilyn Louie, a Chinatown grandmother whose father opened a newsstand on the Bowery at Pell Street 35 years ago, has been fighting for months against city inspectors who say the stand is 3 inches too close to a neighboring building.

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The Cuomo administration has set April 24 as the date for the special election, in which state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, is vying for the Senate's 37th District seat against either Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and previous Yonkers inspector general, or Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation attorney from the town of Bedford, both Republicans.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Between 1968 and 1973 the association fought a string of battles against censorship in Vancouver, including attempts by the city licensing inspector to shut down various local theatre productions, and attacks on the Georgia Straight (a popular alternative paper founded in 1967) for obscenity.