Sentences with phrase «city council member»

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

«We the jurors remain deadlocked on all counts,» read the note from the jury in federal corruption trial of City Council Member Larry Seabrook.

MYSTERY SOLVED: City Council Member Lou Trangucci is the person who brought forward the complaint which led to the investigation of the New Rochelle Department of Public Works by the Westchester County District Attorney.

In addition to the Ampuero family, others at tonight's vigil included State Senator Jose Peralta, City Council Member Danny Dromm and advocacy organizations Make Queens Safer, Families for Safe Streets and Transportation Alternatives.

And City Council member Ydanis Rodriguez said: «Rent regulation is the only guarantee we have to protect tenants» rights.

Two of the candidates are relatively known quantities - Sal Albanese, a former City Council member and a mayoral candidate in the 2013 race; and Bob Gangi, a veteran police reform advocate.

According to a recent report by City Council member Brad Lander, 81.6 percent of white or black New Yorkers would need to move to a new neighborhood to create a more equal racial distribution in the city.

City Council member Ben Kallos, chair of the Government Operations Committee, hosted the session together with Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer in the spirit of «bringing government to the people.»

Former City Council member John Liu, who faces State Senator Tony Avella in a Democratic primary, did not ask Wu for his endorsement and press reports quote Liu as emphatically rejecting it.

However in February 2009, a group of elected officials including Maloney, Stringer, City Council member Jessica Lappin and State Assemblyman Micah Kellner, sent letters to the state agency seeking to overturn the decision.

On Thursday, NY1 reported that the closed - door meeting was called for 1 PM Friday, after a complaint was lodged against a then - unidentified city council member last week.

While some aspects of it are useful, the plan mostly amounts to «inconsequential suggestions to a problem that is so grave,» in the words of City Council Member Antonio Reynoso.

The panel will include Maya Wiley, counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio; City Council Member Elizabeth Crowley; and Carmelyn Malalis, commissioner of the city's Human Rights Commission; among others.

The committee passed over former City Council member Corey Ellis, who ran against Mayor Jennings four years ago fir the Democratic nomination.

«I think this is a city issue, I think it is being handled by a city agency, and I think we as the council have jurisdiction over city agencies and what they do,» Queens City Council member Karen Koslowitz said.

The lawsuit also implicated staff members of City Council member Margaret Chin, who were helping collect signatures.

Pictured left to right from the winning team, which argued in favor of eliminating cash bail, were City Council member Daniel Dromm (District 25) and Fortune debater Felix Guzman, joined by Khalil Cumberbatch, Associate Vice President of Policy, David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society.

On Thursday evening, the mayor is expected to speak at a fundraiser in Manhattan to support City Council Member Vincent Gentile's congressional campaign.

As a City Council Member Madeline helped make the East Bronx a better place, and was a champion for the creation of a new golf course at Ferry Point Park and a fighter for the needs of senior citizens and youth throughout the community.

«When I ran for city council member at the age of 21 people said you couldn't do it.

«We're fighting in order to renew and strengthen rent - stabilization laws,» said local City Council member Robert Jackson.

City Council Member Corey Johnson, a Council Speaker hopeful with no primary challenge as he cruises to reelection, dropped by to help with the glad - handing.

Success Academy was founded by former City Council Member Eva Moskowitz in 2006.

BRONX — Surveying his past four years in office, New York City Council Member Andy King (12th C.D.) delivered his fourth State of the District Address on Sunday (March 12th) before a packed house at the North Bronx Seventh Day Adventist Church on Bronxwood Ave.

In the late 1980s, a $ 25,000 check written to City Council member Robert Dryfoos was criticized when it came to light that Dryfoos had given an impassioned speech in favor of applications to rezone a former animal shelter for a high - rise Glenwood development.

City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez, chair of the Council's Committee on Transportation, says residents are a key resource for planning transportation projects and must be treated as such.

Queens Democratic Party officials are retaliating against GOP City Councilman Eric Ulrich for filing an ethics complaint against City Council member Elizabeth Crowley — a relative of a powerful congressman,...

Assemblywoman Inez Barron, Council Member - elect, Brooklyn «I am pleased to announce my support for City Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito as Speaker of the New York City Council.

Local City Council member Carlina Rivera...

«No enterprise should be allowed to proliferate outside the bounds of the law,» City Council member Corey Johnson, a member of ShareBetter, said in a statement.

Diana Reyna, a city council member since 2001, is one such supporter.

The Working Families Party also endorsed Jumaane Williams, a New York City Council member representing a Brooklyn district, for lieutenant governor over incumbent Kathy Hochul.

Moskowitz, a former City Council member who ran for Manhattan Borough President in 2005, has long had an interest in being mayor and she's been deeply engaged with New York City and State government in her current role.

New York City Council Member Eric Ulrich today endorsed Bo Dietl for mayor, supporting Dietl in a race that he may not get to run.

State Senator Michael Gianaris, State Assembly member Aravella Simotas and City Council member Costa Constantinides were co-sponsors of the event, which was attended by about 250 members and friends of the Greek American community in Queens.

City Council member Diana Reyna, joined by a local community group, claimed in a press conference at City Hall today that two new residential...

Coordinating that effort are Noel Hidalgo and Chris Whong, executive director and co-captain, respectively, of New York City's Code for America brigade BetaNYC, which has pushed for the legislation along with sponsor City Council member Ben Kallos, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Council member James Vacca and City Council member Brad Lander.

«As a New York City Council Member, Domenic Recchia had distinguished himself as a vocal and aggressive advocate for working families,» said UFCW Local 1500 President Bruce W. Both.

State Senator Michael Gianaris, State Assembly member Aravella Simotas and City Council member Costa Constantinides -LSB-...]

While one of the Haggertys is under federal investigation, the other is Chief of Staff to City Council Member Eric Ulrich (R - Ozone Park).

One of the few elected officials who recognized the Atlantic Yards Project for the boondoggle it is was then - City Council Member Letitia James.

Bronx, NY — Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz, in conjunction with New York State Assemblymen Marcos Crespo, Luis Sepulveda, Michael Blake, Victor Pichardo and City Council Member Rafael Salamanca, will celebrate the 7th «Abrazo Garifuna Banquet in New York.»

Each City Council member who takes part in the program sets aside between $ 1 million and $ 2 million out of the city budget.

The project has received support from a diverse base of private and public partners including the Junior League of Buffalo / Buffalo News, Rich Family Foundation, Wegmans, Patrick P. Lee Foundation, James H. Cummings Foundation, Assembly Member Sean Ryan, NYS Empire State Development, NYS Homes and Community Renewal, the City of Buffalo, M&T Bank, Peter C. Cornell Trust, City Council Member David Rivera, Simple Gifts Fund, Children's Foundation of Erie County, and individual donors.

City Council Member Jumaane Williams to Explore Run for Lieutenant Governor by Ben Max (January 2018)

As he runs for reelection this fall, Carlos Menchaca, the City Council member for District 38, which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, faces several challengers in the Democratic primary.

City Council Member Peter F. Vallone Jr., seen here during a DC 37 rally outside City Hall, lost his bid for Queens Borough President in Tuesday's Democratic Primary.

A super PAC has started to blanket the 33rd Senate District in the Bronx with mailers attacking incumbent Democratic state Senator Gustavo Rivera and praising his challenger, Democratic City Council Member Fernando Cabrera.

I know that he will work even harder for this community as the next City Council member.»

East Harlem City Council member Melissa Mark - Viverito has been elected City Council Speaker, beating out Dan Garodnick for the position formerly held by one - time...