Sentences with phrase «by more than a dozen city»

When Mayor Bill de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito make their first lobbying trip to Albany on Monday, they'll be joined by more than a dozen City Council members, including some who previously opposed the new speaker, according to a list obtained from a Council source.

«This is a great honor for me to be the people's choice for New York State comptroller,» he said, standing next to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and flanked by more than a dozen city and state officials and his 86 - year - old dad.

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The city has promised that all of the more than two dozen homes on the initial list will be torn down by the beginning of 2011.

Renovations on more than a dozen city schools will be completed largely by minorities, women and Syracuse city residents, according to the terms of a new labor agreement.

They were joined by more than a dozen Democratic City Council members on the steps of City Hall in railing against the mayor's support for what amounts to a promotion of Cassano, 28, the son of former Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano.

Murphy spoke at a community walk in the park Monday morning hosted by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, which drew more than two - dozen local women.

Ponte's travels were first exposed in a scathing report by Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters who also discovered that more than two dozen other corrections big wigs were improperly using their city cars for personal use.

Flanked by more than two dozen city and state lawmakers, Schneiderman said the public has «lost confidence in this part of our criminal justice system,» and said «that erosion of trust and confidence must be addressed and must be addressed now.»

«Put simply, it is a 19th - century solution to a 21st century problem,» Lippman said at Sunday's press conference while flanked by more than half a dozen elected city officials, including the district attorneys of The Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.

In a city weaved together by more than two dozen subway lines, no train comes within walking distance of the 75 - year - old airport, a gap in the system which has frustrated and puzzled generations of New Yorkers.

Criticism of Quinn over the sick leave issue sparked spirited applause at the March 20 LGBT forum, but the tableau presented at City Hall on March 29 ---- with the speaker surrounded by more than a dozen Council members, major labor leaders, and fired up members of both 32BJ and Make the Road New York, a social justice organization ---- provided a striking contrast with the week before.

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

The bustling trade city of Timbuktu, Mali, was flooded more than a dozen times by the Niger River, a phenomenon that has not happened since.

More than two - dozen groups initially submitted letters of interest to the department to start charter schools, but many were subsequently withdrawn, including one by Rev. Kenneth Moales Jr., who is now chairman of the city school board in Bridgeport.

The new initiative grew out of The Wallace Foundation's years of work in youth development, including a dozen - year effort to encourage citywide coordination for afterschool that yielded more than 40 publications and found, according to a study by RAND, «that organizations across cities could work together toward increasing access, quality, data - based decision making and sustainability.»

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

The cities of Barcelona, Madrid, and Seville are now well - known and appreciated by tourists but did you know that Spain offers more than a dozen paradisiacal coasts to spend a your holidays?

Organized by REDCAT with a consortium of organizations and independent artists, the festival connects artists from more than a dozen countries with neighborhoods city - wide, through vital performances in parks, plazas, galleries, theaters and busy urban settings.

Hosted by the Morris Collectors, one of the museum's affiliate groups, this year's fair features such leading dealers as Hampton3 Gallery from Taylors, South Carolina and Augusta's Tire City Art Gallery, both showing and selling the work of nationally, internationally, and locally renowned printmakers; artists» atelier King Snake Press from Greenville, South Carolina, representing the work of more than a dozen artists; Augusta State University art professor Kristin Casaletto; ASU gallery director, artist Jack Cheatham; University of Georgia professors and artists Melissa Harshman and Jon Swindler; Savannah College of Art and Design professor and artist Dale Clifford, and artists Kent Ambler, Suzy Schultz, Andrea Emmons, and Katherine Linn.

With 312,000 daily visitors to New York City's Times Square, it is one of the highest profile public arts programs and since its inception, Times Square Arts has featured works by a diverse group of more than five dozen prominent and emerging artists.

★ Queens Museum: «Bringing the World Into the World» (through Oct. 12) The Queens Museum builds an exhibition around its great panorama of New York City with works in sculpture, video, installation and drawing by more than a dozen artists.

A new digitally - minded exhibition by the art writing team at Art F City features more than two dozen works by artists who use animated GIFs to create work — from Brenna Murphy's dizzying electronic architecture to Jacolby Satterwhite's pulsing alternate universe.

This group show features works by more than two dozen Fountain House Gallery artists who have employed diverse mediums to explore the ways in which they «navigate» their daily lives in New York City — physically, intellectually and emotionally.

The city's new public art biennial features installations around the city by more than a dozen artists focusing around the theme of water.

These so - called B.R.T. systems are being constructed in more than a dozen cities and, when done well, draw passengers out of their cars and off of polluting minibuses, reducing emissions by over 50 per cent in cities like Bogota.

The rocket landed inside a civilian house in the city of #Doma yesterday, where more than 50 civilian casualties occurred in the chemical and dozens of martyrs were killed by the bombing of the city with various types of weapons».

The bipartisan state legislation is championed by Sen. Mark Grisanti, R - Buffalo, and Assemblymembers Alan Maisel, D - Brooklyn, and Linda B. Rosenthal, D - Manhattan, with the sponsorship support of 75 state legislators, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, D - Queens, in addition to more than a dozen New York City Councilmembers through a resolution by Councilmember Margaret Chin, D - Lower Manhattan.