Sentences with phrase «as city and state officials»

Today, surrounded by cycling advocates as well as city and state officials, Mayor Thomas M. Menino signed a contract with Alta Bicycle Share to bring a cutting - edge bike share system to the City of Boston, one of the first in the country.

The groundhog emerged from his spacious glass enclosure as city and state officials looked on along with dozens of Staten Islanders.

Not exact matches

Trump also said if city and state officials were willing to take down statues and monuments of Confederate heroes Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, America's founding fathers — such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — could go next.

The battle comes as Secretary of State John Kerry visited the capital city, urging officials to ensure that the nation's upcoming elections will be peaceful and fair.

The Empire State Building has been recognized as an official landmark by the National Parks Services and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission since the 1980s.

But some elected officials on both the city and state level have criticized this approach as a way to close public schools and open a charter school in its place.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the MTA as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delcity's contribution to the MTA as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.

White powder spilled out of an envelope as it was being opened by an employee on the state office campus this morning, State Police and city fire officials state office campus this morning, State Police and city fire officials State Police and city fire officials said.

A host of city and state elected officials stood on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall with Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon on Tuesday as she announced that she will seek re-election to represent the 52nd Assembly District for another two years.

As the debate over legalizing recreational marijuana use continues, city and state officials are weighing in on whether they're in favor of lawfully lighting up.

The highlight each year is the mayor's performance, which serves as a rebuttal of sorts to the reporters» show, which opens the night by skewering the mayor and other city and state elected officials.

He has served as an elected official since 2006 as the South District Council Member in the City of Buffalo and in 2012 was elected New York State Assemblyman to represent the 142nd District (then the 145th district).

Among those present were Barrett's family, including his wife, Fran, who works in Cuomo's office as interagency coordinator for nonprofit services, and a long list of elected officials, including: Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Carolyn Maloney, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, former New York City Public Advocate Mark Green, Counsel to the Governor Alphonso David, Cuomo's Chief of Staff Melissa DeRosa, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and dozens of journalists.

The handful of elected officials from the state and city level have forcefully denounced the prospect of new bridge tolls as Cuomo drafts a congestion pricing plan for New York City that would raise revenue for its mass transit netwcity level have forcefully denounced the prospect of new bridge tolls as Cuomo drafts a congestion pricing plan for New York City that would raise revenue for its mass transit netwCity that would raise revenue for its mass transit network.

Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.

BY ANDY HUMM Members of Queer Nation, which has led the charge among New Yorkers pressuring Russia to repeal its notorious anti-gay laws, are calling on city and state officials to pull their investments in Russia as bad both morally and financially.

City officials in the state capital have been focusing as well on the concerns of individual Democratic members of the Assembly — partly to please Mr. Heastie — while also laying out their priorities to unions and other allies who can carry that message for them.

After false reports of gunfire prompted stampedes at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night, city and state officials described the unprecedented chaos as a learning experience, while New York police commissioner Bill Bratton said it resembled the «fog of war.»

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

The cap proposal has been criticized as faulty and flawed by a number of New York City and state elected officials, including city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2City and state elected officials, including city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2017.

There's more reaction this morning to last week's 2010 Census report, showing New York's population did not increase nearly as sharply as many city and state officials had predicted.

Democratic elected officials aligned with the city and state teachers unions see charters as a thinly - veiled, well - moneyed effort to erode job protections for teachers.

Cuomo's team has plenty to work with, given that Teachout listed Vermont as her address in official paperwork as recently as 2013, avoided paying state and city sales taxes on a car she bought in New York, listed Vermont as her home on tax forms when she joined the faculty of Fordham University Law School in 2009, and reported to tax authorities that she lived in New York for zero months in 2009.

It comes in the case against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), who stands accused of scheming with officials in New York City and Rockland County to raise funds for his one - time attempt to switch parties and run for mayor as a Republican.

In addition to electing club officers and executive committees, members of New York Democratic clubs are extremely influential in nominating and electing unpaid party officials known as District Leaders and members of the New York State Democratic Committee, as well as Democratic legislators at the City, State and federal level.

Quigley joined with a number of local northern Manhattan elected officials, including New York State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez and New York City Councilmember Melissa Mark - Viverito, community leaders such as Department of Youth and Community Development's Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav and Supportive Children's Advocacy Network (SCAN)'s Executive Director Lewis Zuchman, and a host of residents, including local schoolchildren, for the center's unveiling in a late afternoon reception.

The state and federal probe into the de Blasio Administration has expended to include Emma Wolfe, the mayor's director of intergovernmental affairs, as well as union officials and consulting firms with longstanding ties to City Hall, WCBS 880's Stephanie Colombini reported.

Dan Halloran is a Republican city councilman who is accused of working as a «quarterback» in state Sen. Malcolm Smith's bribery scheme, identifying officials who would be open to bribes and arranging meetings with them, prosecutors said.

In fact, Assemblyman Michael Miller wrote a letter to Ms. Quinn in September, 2012 (and I am still waiting to see it, despite multiple requests), supposedly questioning the jurisdiction of the City Council with regard to their failure to demand a completed investigation by the Department of Investigations (that DOI investigators and officials initiated in May, 1993, but failed to complete), and Ms. Quinn's own role to initiate her own, independent investigation, as her August, 2006 letter clearly states.

The owners of a Bronx hotel identified as a potential source of Legionnaires» disease hit the roof, slamming the «game of one - upsmanship» between city and state officials for sowing misinformation about the health scare.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

The measures were requested city officials and state lawmakers who represent the area as its school district seeks to plug yet another budget deficit.

As New York City and state officials fight in public over the best policy prescriptions for helping the city manage its homeless population, another battle is taking place in coCity and state officials fight in public over the best policy prescriptions for helping the city manage its homeless population, another battle is taking place in cocity manage its homeless population, another battle is taking place in court.

The WHO has declared the Zika virus an international emergency, with state and city officials taking action as well.

Buffalo purchased the research campus five years ago for $ 4.6 million, and state is expected to be off the tax rolls, but city officials believe they will reap some indirect benefits such as residential and commercial development leading to more tax revenue.

Bailey has secured the endorsements of many of the unions that loom large in New York City politics — 32BJ and 1199 SEIU, New York State United Teachers and New York State Association of Nurses, among others — as well as Bronx officials like Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Hassell - Thompson.

Citing the environmental, economic and political ramifications of President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris climate accord — as well as the perilous effects of inconsistent weather and more intense storms that have already befallen their cities and counties — more than 200 New York officials on Monday called on state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to divest the state Common Retirement Fund of companies that contribute to man - made climate change.

ALBANY — Used plastic grocery bags could become as valuable as used soda cans under an option being discussed between city and state officials, The Post has learned.

In a move widely seen as dismissive of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education initiatives, Miner and de Blasio on Monday called upon state officials to revise school aid based on the Citizens for Fiscal Equity court decision, which held that New York City schools were inadequately funded.

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Mayor Bill de Blasio faced tough questions from state lawmakers about the city's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delcity's contribution to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday as officials in City Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delCity Hall, the governor's office and the Legislature continue to debate how to bail out a subway system beset by breakdowns and delays.

Krebs said the other elements of the job as described to him by JCOPE officials included educating state officials on ethics and eliminating «duplicate filings» with the legislature's ethics board and the New York City lobbying commission.

The event is being co-chaired by LGBT fundraiser Jeffrey Campagna and labor leader Stuart Appelbaum, which elected officials as co-chairs including State Sen. Tom Duane and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a proponent of city - county mergers, has proposed forcing county executives throughout the state to submit official merger proposals by Aug. 1 and putting them to a popular vote in November, on the same ballot as the mayoral race.

«During the 30 - day period from November 16th to December 16th, 2015, at least 29 towns, cities and counties in the direct path of the two proposed oil and refined products pipelines — over 85 percent of the total — objected to the Thruway Authority's proposal to act as Lead Agency for the (state Environmental Quality Review Act) process,» town officials wrote.

In an official statement, Gov. Cuomo's spokesperson Rich Azzopardi said the office has been in «constant contact with Mayor Sheehan's office, as recently as (Friday) morning, and we anticipate reaching a final budget agreement that will benefit the residents of the city of Albany and New York State as a whole.»

Representatives from local elected officials, including City Councilmen Robert Jackson and Ydanis Rodriguez as well as State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, are also working to create an initiative to help.

When Mr. Dinkins called on him to head the commission, Mr. Mollen had months before stepped down as deputy mayor for public safety, after a long public career in which he had been a top city housing official in the 1960s and a high - ranking state judge in the 1970s and»80s.

Cuomo is also expected to name former New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn as the state party's No. 2 official, but her selection was described by party insiders as more a rebuke to Mayor de Blasio, the governor's nemesis, and not an effort to find a replacement for Percoco.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio and leaders of the embattled New York City Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing sysCity Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing syscity's massive public housing system.

BROOKLYN, NY — Several elected officials are quietly lobbying New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Kings County Democratic Party leadership to appoint NYC Public Advocate and Brooklyn native Letitia James, currently serving as the city's highest - ranking watchdog, as the interim Brooklyn District Attorney, Kings County Politics has learned.