Sentences with phrase «aqueduct built»

Now Turkish architecture firm Superspace is proposing to inhabit an aqueduct built by the Roman emperor Valens back in the 4th century.

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.

An aqueduct built above Sikuvile diverted half of the water flowing down the Inkomati into the sector.

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In an open letter sent to the legislative leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon expanded on his proposal to build a convention center in Queens adjacent to the Aqueduct Racetrack, saying that the investment will pay off in 20,000 permanent and temporary jobs and a $ 4 billion investment in the state.

But Mr. Cuomo said that under his proposal, «this is not the state building a convention center at all,» but rather a privately financed project, pursued in cooperation with the state by Genting, the Malaysian company that in October opened a gambling parlor at Aqueduct.

ALBANY — A majority of New York State voters oppose Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan for building the country's largest convention center at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, according to a poll released on Monday.

Legislation allowing for Aqueduct's racino was approved in 2001 but the facility hasn't been built because of the state's failure to reach an agreement.

The Old Croton Aqueduct, built between 1837 and 1842, is no longer in commission.

ALBANY — A giant Malaysian gaming and resort entertainment firm with worldwide clout is in line to turn over $ 380 million to the state and gain the rights to build and operate the long - delayed video slots parlor at the state's Aqueduct Race Track in Queens.

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Oddly, support remains strong — at least 60 percent in every region and party — for Cuomo's plan to build the nation's largest convention center — at no cost to the taxpayers — at Aqueduct in Queens.

Mayor Bloomberg, who reportedly was taken by surprise by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State announcements on eradicating the fingerprint requirement for foodstamps and building the nation's largest convention center / casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, is getting his revenge this afternoon.

As first announced nearly five months ago, the Administration has been negotiating with Genting to build a convention center at the current Aqueduct racino.

Citing the Empire State Building and New York City's system of aqueducts, Cuomo said there is a history of boldness in pushing ahead with major projects.

During his 2012 State of the State address, Cuomo proposed building a 3.8 million square foot convention center complete with hotel rooms and a casino in at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, which would replace Javits and finally put New York ahead of the convention center competition.

During an appearance Friday evening on former governor David Paterson's WOR radio show, Governor Andrew Cuomo said talks with gambling giant Genting to build a casino and convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park «haven't really worked out,» and that he's shopping around for another developer.

Some members of bidding teams that vied for the rights to build and operate an Aqueduct racino are exploring partnerships in the new round of requests for proposals, according to people with ties to the groups.

«I'm very divided on what the Mayor just said,» said Rev. Peter Silva, who lives in a Milbank building on Aqueduct Avenue.

Cuomo also criticized an editorial in Dicker's newspaper today which questioned the governor's proposal to build a convention center and casino at Aqueduct.

Genting, whose casino at Aqueduct Raceway has been [raking in profits](http://www.rwnewyork.com/about-resorts-world/news-articles/284-new-york-city-slots-parlor-says-its-countrys-highest-grossing), had hoped to get some sort of exclusivity agreement for full - fledged gaming in New York City in exchange for building a convention center at the site.

He adds that having casino resorts built in Orange County — Genting is proposing a massive resort in the county and locating it as closely as possible to New York City — would harm revenue going to Yonkers and Aqueduct VLTs.

First envisioned as a plan to bring a casino and resort to the area adjacent the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, the plan turned to building casinos upstate after an agreement with Malaysian - based Genting could not be reached with the state.

The winner in the drawn - out bidding process gets the franchise to build and manage a video lottery terminal facility at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens.

I understood NYRA to have a long - term lease on the vast majority of the land at the Aqueduct facility, namely the clubhouse side of the building, the racetrack itself, and the land containing the barns and shops on the backstretch... so if that's true, where is all this new development going to go?

The project, which was to have been built by a Malaysian gambling company at the Aqueduct racetrack near Kennedy Airport, was a signature initiative of Mr. Cuomo's and a central thrust of his State of the State address in January.

Cuomo is supporting Aqueduct racino operator Genting's plan to spend $ 4 billion to build the nation's biggest convention center adjacent to the Queens racetrack in exchange for state approval to expand racinos run by the Malaysian - based gaming giant.

That, as was discussed with a plan to build a full casino and convention center at Aqueduct, would likely have to involve Genting giving NYRA money to redevelop Belmont.

In return for that, we see the possibility that Genting would be granted the opportunity to build a full casino at Aqueduct that could be the busiest in the world.

Asked by a reporter about a recent report that detailed the corrupt handling of a controversial deal to build a casino at Aqueduct racetrack, Bloomberg took the opportunity to blast Schneiderman as an Albany insider.

Cuomo proposed replacing the 1986 I.M. Pei - designed complex with a massive new 3.8 million square foot convention center at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens — built using $ 4 billion in private funds.

Cuomo said on TALK 1300 that the role of this state government is to bring dramatic change when speaking about building the nation's potentially largest convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Eight years, and many will - they - won't - they stories, after former New York Governor George Pataki first granted permission for electronic slot machines to be built at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, a winning bid to develop the track has yet to be picked.

The Times reported last week that Genting, a Malaysian gambling company that had worked with Mr. Cuomo on a plan to build a convention center and casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, gave $ 400,000 to the group in 2011, and that the New York Gaming Association, a trade group founded by Genting and other companies, donated the $ 2 million in December.

Let the Chronicles of Planet New York forever reflect that on Jan. 4, 2012, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared that the state's most vital need was to build the nation's largest convention center in Ozone Park, Queens, on the site of Aqueduct Racetrack.

Cuomo first introduced his plan to build the country's largest convention center at the site of the Aqueduct Raceway in Queens during his State of the State message.

His 2012 speech, though, was much more of a building speech: Its centerpiece was the proposed construction of a new convention center in Queens near the Aqueduct Racetrack that has since fizzled.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The operator of the Resorts World Casino New York City at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens has released details of a resort casino it is hoping to build in Orange County, and will present its plans during a Town of Tuxedo board meeting Monday evening.

The governor said $ 4 billion would be needed from the private sector to build a convention center at the Aqueduct racino.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state Lottery Division on Tuesday recommended a Malaysia - based company to build and operate video slot machines at New York City's Aqueduct racetrack, a gambling operation expected...

The building of the Markopoulo Equestrian Center revealed the remains of a temple to Aphrodite, and the Olympic Village exposed a 2,000 - year - old Roman aqueduct.

That suggests an expansion of the network of lead pipes that brought water to individual buildings — but only until the 5th century C.E., when economic collapse and other troubles put the region's aqueduct out of commission.

Historically, Grant said, nations have augmented water supplies by building dams or constructing pipelines or aqueducts for transferring water from a more plentiful source to one with a water deficit.

The film presents a fantastic contrast between the old and the new right from the very start when a statue of Christ is flown in by helicopter past ancient Roman aqueducts, over construction sites for new suburban tenement buildings, and over the rooftop of penthouse apartments decked out with bikini - clad women of the leisure class.

Kendra King, the principal at Broadus Wood, was excited to see students building aqueducts.

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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.

The gradient of the slope as it crosses the river is just 1 in 3,000 - a drop of just 2.5 cm - which shows the incredible precision of the Roman engineers who designed and built the aqueduct with the simple technology available to them over 2,000 years ago.

This cylindrical, stone building located in Paris 19 was built during the XVIth — XVIIth century as the main inspection chamber for Belleville Aqueduct.

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It is admirable for its colossal constructions with their impeccable finish, perfectly assembled sets of symmetrical benched terraces, ceremonial centers, like the Intiwatana which must have been used to observe solar movements, as well as for its sacred places, towers, fortified walls, cemetery, urban areas, stone buildings, narrow streets, stairways and aqueducts, to irrigate its agricultural and urban sectors.