Sentences with phrase «as white residents»

Bedford - Stuyvesant is now 60 percent black, down from 75 percent a decade ago, as white residents move into the gentrifying section of Brooklyn, a change the Times calls even more striking than in Harlem.

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

Not exact matches

In a recent survey of Indianapolis residents, African - American respondents were 40 percent more likely than white respondents to describe themselves as «very religious or spiritual.»

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

Baltimore residents and guests will dine on unexpected dishes such as Smoked White Fish Mousse & Bagel with soft poached egg yolk, mustard pickled soft - boiled scotch egg, house made sausage and house smoked Goot Essa Amish cheddar, and Liberty Delight Farms Braised Pork Cheek with Cider and Albright Farms confit local red cabbage, pickled mushroom and parsnip.

Police have identified the man who fatally shot himself outside the White House on Saturday as 26 - year - old Alabama resident Cameron Ross Burgess.

Two candidates for the Lewiston - Porter Board of Education on Friday vehemently disavowed a flyer mailed to some district residents that contained that endorsed them as the candidates that will «Keep Lew - Port white» in Tuesday's election.

Just as the city braced for an onslaught of white powder, some uptown residents turned on the taps to find brown water gushing forth...

The effort by Schwartz, a White Plains resident who also served as secretary to former Gov. David Paterson, will take place as Westchester Executive Robert Astorino and Rockland Executive Scott Vanderhoef seek to have the state develop a costly new commuter - bus transit system as part of the bridge - rebuilding project.

Also at 11 a.m, NYC Councilman Andy King and Bronx residents rally to oppose the opening of a homeless shelter that was initially promoted as a market rate apartment building for middle - income working families, 3677 White Plains Road, Bronx.

Prior to joining the Spitzer administration, Colon, a White Plains resident, served as the deputy director for communications and as staff attorney at the NYC Housing Authority.

Most of the Amalgamated residents, who are whiter and more middle - class than the district as a whole, don't really know or care about Rivera's childhood.

The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).

11:00 AM — CM Andy King and Bronx residents rally to oppose the opening of a homeless shelter that was initially promoted as a market rate apartment building for middle - income working families, 3677 White Plains Road, Bronx.

Mayer took the nomination over a field of candidates that included Bedford Supervisor Chris Burdick and former Bernie Sanders organizer and White Plains resident, Kat Brezler, as well as Mark Jaffe of West Harrison.

«Many things have happened in this country since then, the rise of white supremacy as represented by Charlottesville, the massacre in Las Vegas and here at home, just last week, the appearance of white supremacist literature on the Westchester Community College campus,» Larchmont resident Jenny Geer said.

As winters go, this season is pretty much on par with the total amount snow that typically falls in any given year in Central New York, but residents are fed up with all the white stuff that has fallen of late.

As an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban communitAs an advocate for housing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cuomo pushed to develop the site as public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban communitas public housing for the county's homeless, one of his first major poltical victories in his solo public service career in the face of opposition from the wealthy, mostly white, residents who lived in the suburban community.

Earlier this month, Mayer received the Democratic nomination over a pool of candidates, including Bedford Supervisor Chris Burdick; former Bernie Sanders organizer and White Plains resident Kat Brezler; as well as Mark Jaffe, of West Harrison.

MICHAEL WHITE PHOTO Shirley Covedale at the First Baptist Church of Riverhead property, where she's long pushed to get an apartment complex and community center built to provide affordable housing and other services, such as 24 - hour child care, to East End residents.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — As part of Saturday's National Prescription Take Back Day, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino is making it easier for residents to safely dispose of their old and excess drugs and medications.

After three terms as mayor, most New York City residents are not interested in sending Michael Bloomberg to the White House.

Between 2000 and 2010, Troy's population changed as the number of minority residents grew and the number of white residents declined.

While this questionnaire focuses on the communities of Hoosick Falls, NY, Petersburgh, NY, and North Bennington, VT, we would welcome responses from former workers in the plants, regardless of where they live, as well as responses from residents with PFOA contaminated private wells in the surrounding communities (including Eagle Bridge and White Creek in New York, and Bennington, Pownal, and Shaftsbury in Vermont).

As the demonstrators were rallying on Varick Street, Trump was busy at the White House throwing a huge wrench into the discussions about immigration and a fix for the dangers facing the nearly million residents in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program by referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as «shithole countries.&raquAs the demonstrators were rallying on Varick Street, Trump was busy at the White House throwing a huge wrench into the discussions about immigration and a fix for the dangers facing the nearly million residents in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program by referring to Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as «shithole countries.&raquas «shithole countries.»

The white family who, like so many others at the time, flees from South Africa in The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat also draws empathy from the filmmaker, who as a resident of South Africa herself, realized that there were whole generations of Caucasian immigrants who knew no other home.

And the filmmakers» idea of injecting cutting - edge comedy is to have Betty White, as a cantankerous lakeside resident, say «fuck» and «dick».

The frightened residents see the foursome as a fulfillment of prophecy and urge them to join with the lion Aslan, to overthrow the wicked White Witch (Barbara Kellerman).

As a result, one Colin Warner (LaKeith Stanfield), a resident of the mostly African - American community of Crown Heights Brooklyn, was sent upstate to Dannemora Prison, a mostly white community with principally white guards.

In a franchise rife with casting drama, there is textual evidence to support Wiress being white (District 3 residents are described as having «ashen» skin in the novel).

Whitsunday Crisis and Counselling is calling all residents to play their part in raising awareness and funds for children in need as the countdown begins for the Bravehearts annual White Balloon Day on September 6.

Among residents of communities with a charter school, 63 percent of white parents express support for the idea, as compared with 50 percent of white parents nationally.

At P.S. 199, «test scores are high, the students are mostly white and well off,» and the school «can raise $ 800,000 a year» to pay for luxuries such as a resident chef.

Complexion, characteristic of a resident of the «black» or «yellow» ethnicity, will be a sign of Addison's disease or icterus in the «white» one; a violet shade of the tone of the lips, bluish nails in Caucasians the physician would assess as cyanosis, in the Negro - as an ethnic feature.

First of all, the lease requires that all residents be listed on the policy, that the unit be an «insured location,» and that Halstead White Plains be listed as a certificate holder or additional interest.

by Jo Ann White As the height of the hurricane season approaches, the mind of a Florida resident turns to preparations for our most common natural disaster.

The first reports of ghosts date back to the early 1900's; although the first ghost was said to be recognized as Captain Albert Hatt Jr., the son of original owner, there seems to be an ever - present woman in white who is the «resident ghost» and seems to be more prominent throughout the inn.

Following the ridges all the way down to 30m, advanced get to experience a unique part of the dive site know as «Jack Point» where a huge resident school of Jacks are known to stay circling overhead, as well as having a good chance of seeing black and white - tip reef sharks and numerous blue - spotted stingrays.

There are original paintings from resident artist Allan Wolf - Tasker as well as white eggshell bookcases featuring individual pieces from local sculptor Bridget Bodenham and Bronze artist Anthony van der Zweep.

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As for the games, NBA 2K13 was October's top selling game, followed by Resident Evil 6, Pokemon Black Version 2, Dishonored, Pokemon White Version 2, Madden NFL 13, FIFA Soccer 13, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Borderlands 2 and Skylanders Giants.

His work has been hosted by organisations such as the V&A, SPACE, Barbican and the Delfina Foundation, and he is currently a resident artist at The White Building in Hackney Wick.

The ubiquitous green and white Volkswagen bugs that serve as cheap taxis for millions of Mexico City residents while damaging their lungs by spewing ultra fine particulate matter and other pollutants will be phased out by 2012, according to the Spanish

Now, only days after the blue stork's first appearance in Biegen, residents and spectators are greatly relieved to watch as the strange stork has been joined in the traditional mating rituals by a female of the normal black - and - white variety.

As they get measured and weighed at their public debut, the four new white tiger cubs at a German wildlife park yowl and fuss like common alley cats whose tails have been accidentally stepped on, but the latest residents of the private Serengeti Safari Park in Hodenhagen are among the rarest animals in the world.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Roberto J. Gonzalez, former Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, will join the firm as partner in its litigation department, resident in Washington, D.C., where he will represent financial services and other clients, focusing on high - stakes litigation, white - collar criminal and regulatory defense, internal investigations, and congressional proceedings.

NEW YORK — Arlo Devlin - Brown, most recently the Chief of the Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and one of its top securities fraud prosecutors, has joined Covington as a partner in its white collar defense and investigations practice resident in the firm's New York office.

Seventy - one per cent of the 632 documented jurors were white in cities where more than half the population identifies as non-white (In Toronto, 51.4 per cent of residents identify as visible minorities; in Brampton, the figure is 73.3 per cent).

Also known as P - Town, Gymnastic Capital of the World or Plain - O, the city boasts wealthy residents, highly rated public schools and numerous white collar employment opportunities.

The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President.