Sentences with phrase «aide to the mayor»

Although the funds are coming through the Latino affairs office, groups that serve immigrants from any region are eligible for grants, aides to the mayor said.

She was replaced by Dennis Walcott, a former Board of Education president and now top aide to the mayor on educational issues.

De Blasio will be making a short appearance at the gathering, arriving Thursday and returning to New York that evening, aides to the mayor confirmed.

The office of the public advocate — which has come under sharp at tack from critics that include Mayor Bloomberg — has found an unlikely ally in Ester Fuchs, a Columbia University professor who just happens to have served as a top aide to the mayor in his first term.

More than 600 people attended the event, including Emma Wolfe, a top political aide to the mayor who was subpoenaed in the federal probe looking into money funneled to Democratic candidates for state Senate.

The 115 - page affordable housing plan released by the de Blasio administration yesterday left many questions unanswered, and aides to the mayor conceded many of their ideas need to be extensively studied before they can be enacted.

He flirted with the idea of working for the Bloomberg administration, and is said to have spoken repeatedly with aides to the mayor about the possibility.

Aides to the mayor added that he was furious at Mr. Silver, believing the speaker had failed to negotiate in good faith after promising to do so over the weekend.

Aides to the mayor called the governor's bill — which can be read here — a «scam» and accused the Cuomo administration of trying to buy off the teachers unions in exchange for an end to their opposition to his education spending cuts.

(A copy of the speech was provided to The New York Times by aides to the mayor; the full text is below.)

Rick Lazio marched with Mayor Bloomberg at the Israel Day parade, but aides to the mayor said that was the work of parade organizers.

Aides to the mayor, in aiding Democratic candidates, directed large - dollar contributions to county Democratic committees in upstate races, which then turned around and transferred the money to individual candidates.

After 20 months on the job, commissioner Rose Pierre - Louis will step down to take on a different role within the administration, aides to the mayor said.

The mayor's trip to Iowa is being funded by the Progress Iowa group, aides to the mayor said.

The room was full of elected officials and community activists set to testify on the bills and witness the signing when an aide to the mayor announced the event would be canceled due to «scheduling.»

Aides to the mayor, saying they were baffled by Mr. Silver's vote, said they had offered him any number of incentives to keep businesses downtown, including commercial rent tax exemptions and penalties for moving from downtown to the West Side.

Aides to the mayor said the changes to 421 - a could result in the creation of 24,000 affordable housing units over a decade — just 1,500 fewer than under their plan.

«On the anniversary of last year's primary, the mayor gathered about 100 longtime supporters at the office of Kramer Levin to give an update on the administration's progress on pre-K, the housing plan and keeping crime down while improving the relationship between police and community,» said one source, an aide to the mayor, who attended the gathering.