Sentences with word «aqueduct»

An aqueduct is a structure designed to transport water from one place to another, typically from a natural source like a river to a city or agricultural land. It is like a long, elevated channel or pipeline that allows water to flow where it is needed. Full definition
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced this afternoon he has given final approval to the long - delayed contract for a racino at Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, which has been awarded to the Malaysian - based Genting New York.
Moving the horse racing at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, to Belmont Park in Elmont is one of the top policy priorities of Long Island's largest business group.
The decision is critical locally, because New York Racing Association is slated to get a significant share of Aqueduct racino revenue, much of which would be spent on Saratoga Race Course improvements.
The NY Post reports: «The state inspector general is reopening its probe of a politically connected lobbyist who was a key figure in the rigged selection of gaming company AEG to run a multibillion dollar slots casino at Aqueduct race track... Investigators are looking to grill Carl Andrews — who has deep ties to state Senate Democratic leadership — after an appellate court ruled that Andrews must comply with a subpoena from the IG.»
Amid an increasingly divisive probe into the state's selection of Aqueduct Entertainment Group for the new Queens racino, State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is...
Sampson (or anyone, for that matter) is yet to face any charges for leaking internal Senate documents assessing the various bids to a lobbyist for Aqueduct Entertainment Group.
Gov. David Paterson's office says there is no timeline to get a deal done on the video lottery terminals for Aqueduct Race Track.
Shimkus said he would only be satisfied if the plan, which was not made publicly available Tuesday, included the re-privatization of NYRA with key stakeholders represented, and if it honored an agreement from 2008 that granted a specific percentage of VLT revenues from Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens to the horse - racing industry.
Stretching through its heart is a hugely impressive Roman aqueduct of enormous proportions.
«I'm very divided on what the Mayor just said,» said Rev. Peter Silva, who lives in a Milbank building on Aqueduct Avenue.
Democrat Assemblyman James Skoufis says opponents were to be taken from Woodbury Town Hall to the Woodbury border with the Village of Kiryas Joel, where a pipeline project is underway to connect the village to a backup well in the Town of Cornwall, as well to the primary water source, the Catskill Aqueduct in New Windsor.
AEC, formerly known as Aqueduct Entertainment Group, sued the state in Schenectady Supreme Court — a suburb of Albany — after the Lottery decided not to grant the consortium a gaming license.
A mere half hour drive away is another Roman wonder, the spectacular Pont du Gard, a huge aqueduct built in 20 BC standing some 160 feet high and over 900 feet long.
«One would think the last place Joe Addobbo would want to be seen would be at the casino at Aqueduct Raceway.
NYRA, founded in 1955 as a private nonprofit organization, holds the franchise to operate Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga thoroughbred tracks through 2033.
Two years earlier, the State Senate had voted the businessman onto the government - controlled organization's board of directors, only eight months before a massive scandal broke out over the contract for video slot machines at the NYRA - run Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.
Roman Aqueducts by Aptos, California Sandra Lobue - Erba (American, 1945 - 2007).
It's now is a huge Friday night party place, famous for its street party beneath the magnificent 16th century aqueduct which once carried water to the city.
Dr. Fager ($ 3.60), namesake of the Boston neurosurgeon who last year operated on Trainer Johnny Nerud, won the $ 88,350 Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct with Willie Shoemaker up and took a firm grip on 2 - year - old Horse of the Year honors.
If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.
His official rationale, according to his spokesman, Hank Sheinkopf, (who also, interestingly, was a consultant to the ill - fated AEG Aqueduct VLT bid), is as follows:
SL Green, Penn National Gaming and Delaware North / Saratoga Gaming and Raceway are all back in the running to become the new Aqueduct Racino developer...
Saucy never raced at Saratoga, but her trainer brought her to old Aqueduct on Long Island that fall.
The New Croton Aqueduct stretches 31 miles from the New Croton Reservoir in Westchester County to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx and the 135th Street Gatehouse in Manhattan.
A good deal of the audit focused on a new simulcast center and sports bar going in at Aqueduct which has suffered cost overruns.
Investigators have ordered a former state senator to hand over a confidential Senate memo they believe provides smoking - gun proof that a politically connected gaming firm used inside information to win the lucrative Aqueduct slot - machine deal earlier this year, The Post has learned.
The UH Rainbow Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Research Project is a donor - supported program that aims to change the current research landscape for EVA syndrome by charting a new pathway for clinical research discovery.
Phoenix gets a large share of its freshwater via a 336 - mile aqueduct from, of course, the Colorado River.
To the southeast of the complex are located the smallest and most humble of the buildings built around very narrow streets, close to numerous terraces constructed for agricultural purposes as denoted by the existence of a very complex aqueduct system in this area.
It is a part of the West Branch California Aqueduct, which is a part of the California State Water Project.
In his State of the State speech in January, Mr. Cuomo raised the stakes further, calling for the constitutional amendment to legalize casino gambling and proposing to transform Genting's planned resort near Aqueduct into a destination casino resort that would include the nation's largest convention center.
The state's fifth round of requests for proposals to develop and operate the long - delayed Aqueduct racino in Ozone Park, Queens drew three bidders before...
The Natural History Museum in downtown Los Angeles will mark the 100th anniversary of the Los Angeles Aqueduct by hosting a screening of the neo-noir masterpiece «Chinatown,» directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne.
Wu was not the only one to draw historical comparisons, as Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, emphasized the equal «unfettered access» the Founding Fathers had had to the printing press, while Personal Democracy Media's Andrew Rasiej highlighted the extensive and expensive 19th century effort to connect all New Yorkers to a common clean water supply through aqueducts.
Constructed between 1937 and 1945, the Delaware Aqueduct draws from four reservoirs — the Cannonsville, Pepacton, Neversink and Rondout — to provide between 50 and 80 percent of the City's daily water demand.
Also worth mentioning: There's nary a word in the prepared speech about Aqueduct and the nation's biggest convention center.
They also backed a plan to pipe sewage from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh through an abandoned aqueduct running along Sunrise Highway.
His most famous landscape paintings were those he made on his trip to Yorkshire between 1803 and 1805, such as Chirk Aqueduct (1804, Victoria & Albert Museum, London); and Greta Bridge (1805, British Museum, London).
Hurricane Edna made it impossible to race at Aqueduct last Saturday and affected two other tracks in the East.
Pursuing the subject of hydration from a different angle, the project's final element took Ms. Chang to China's South - to - North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world.
The first hit came from The Post, which reported the IG's investigators believe Sampson leaked an internal memo to the politically connected AEG, assisting the firm in landing the first Aqueduct racino contract.
Mayor Bloomberg learned of Cuomo's Aqueduct convention center plan from the newspapers — a tidbit that only serves to underscore the distance between the mayor and the governor.
The city is now drawing water from the Catskill Aqueduct while a carbon filtration system is designed, all being funded by the state.
ALBANY - A probe into the controversial Aqueduct racino deal is focusing heavily on the state Senate, the Daily News has learned.
However, unlike the area surrounding Aqueduct, Buffalo has things conventioneers should be introduced to.
They watched a video lesson covering topics like aqueduct architecture and Roman numerals.
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