Sentences with phrase «city in decades»

When the Cuba - born artist Zilia Sánchez mounted a solo show at the Artists Space in Soho in 2013, it was her first major exhibition in the city in decades.

If enacted, the move would be the first significant teacher layoffs in the city in decades.

WAMC's Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Lucas Willard reports it would be the first Comprehensive Plan approved in the city in decades.

The most prominent public corruption trial to be held in New York City in decades thus began with a starkly different portrayal of Mr. Silver and, in a sense, of the culture of Albany itself.

The requests by Mr. Skelos, 68, a Republican from Long Island who forfeited his Senate seat upon his conviction, and his son, 33, come less than a month before both are to be sentenced on April 13 for their convictions in one of the two most prominent public corruption trials to be held in New York City in decades.

«This State of the State is probably the best arrangement for New York City in decades,» he said during a morning interview on the Brian Lehrer show, calling it «absurd» to expect the state to keep picking up the tab while also funding new programs.

The man who killed 10 people in one of the largest mass shootings in New York City in decades was released from prison earlier this year.

The proposed capital plan by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren is one of the smallest for the city in a decade.

The components of the budget agreement announced today, taken together with the landmark pension reform overhaul announced two weeks ago, herald the best legislative session for the City in a decade.

Flash flooding from this tropical storm — one of the most powerful to affect New York City in a decade — forced hundreds of people to leave their homes in counties just outside the five boroughs.

Not exact matches

A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

She has reported on global financial markets for a decade, previously working for News Corporation in London and the Fox Business Network in New York City.

With car ownership estimated to taper off over the next decade, perks like complimentary parking are no longer appealing or possible in metropolitan cities where parking space is limited.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

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Consequently, Salt Lake City has enjoyed among the highest rates of salary growth in the country over the past decade, according to BLS data.

A decade and a half after the MaRS Discovery District opened its doors in Toronto, the city's promised health - care ecosystem is at last starting to emerge.

We look in awe at China's cities, with their shimmering skyscrapers, and the claim that another 10 New Yorks must be built over the next two decades to accommodate the country's surging middle class.

According to a recent New York Times piece, in a decade, Facebook will have space for 35,000 employees in Menlo Park, which is slightly more than the city's current population.

For two decades, Noe Sanchez sent money from California to his father in Mexico City through storefront outlets of traditional remittance firms such as Western Union.

The hollowed - out towns and cities in the northeastern corner of the state have fallen on hard times, as the manufacturing base dried up in recent decades, unemployment has climbed and jobs are hard to find.

The city lost half of its manufacturing jobs in the past decade.

What Happened: More than a decade after being founded by two New York City beer distributors, the brand was acquired by Nestlé - Dreyer's in 2004.

McClendon worked on revitalizing Oklahoma City over the last decade, helping bring the NBA team to the city from Seattle in 2City over the last decade, helping bring the NBA team to the city from Seattle in 2city from Seattle in 2008.

Decades later, Quinn decided to try to locate his child, and went to Ho Chi Minh City in search of the boy he left behind in 1973.

The city of Detroit has faced serious economic challenges in the past decade, with a shrinking population and tax base while trying to maintain essential services.

NYC's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is not in great shape, but in like most US cities, the situation has been dire for decades.

The company says the campus will bring 50,000 jobs over the next two decades, and most of the 20 finalist cities have said they are offering economic incentives to lure the tech giant — for example, New Jersey has said it wants to award Amazon $ 7 billion in tax breaks if it chooses the Newark area.

«This comprehensive framework requires the city to implement sweeping operational changes to fix a broken system and dismantle a decades - long culture of violence,» Bharara said in a statement.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a statement said the settlement «represents another strong step toward our goal of reversing the decades of abuse on Rikers and building a culture of safety for officers and inmates alike.»

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

For decades, city hall has tried desperately to convince businesses and developers to invest in the Downtown Eastside.

Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y., one of dozens of older malls that Simon has overhauled in the past two decades.

Atlanta and Chicago, big cities that have made it relatively easy to build new housing in recent decades, would see only a small rent increase if they won the Amazon project.

In Berlin, another booming city, the average price is less than half: 45 000 crowns, or the price point of Stockholm a decade ago.

Still, outside of cities, car ownership will remain sensible, the company noted: «It'll take much more than a decade before it makes sense for someone in Wyoming, for example, to ditch their car.»

Donna Olshan started her eponymous boutique residential brokerage in 1980, when it looked as if New York City real estate, if it ever did come back from the economic doldrums of the decade before, would certainly tarry.

Within the next decade, all public schools in New York City will be required to offer computer - science classes to all students as part of Computer Science For All, a new initiative by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

The time was 3:18 a.m. local time on March 23, when, at 91, Lee, who was Singapore's Prime Minister for three decades, died in the 50th year of independence of the city - state that he molded into one of the most sophisticated places on the planet.

Airbnb, in particular, has stressed its collection of hotel taxes in cities as proof of its generosity and civic engagement, even though it's simply doing something that regular bed and breakfasts — to say nothing of hotel chains — have done for decades.

In a move that would have seemed «fringe» a decade ago, cities, states and entire countries are targeting 100 - per - cent renewable energy.

Canadian housing market prices soared over the past decade, with Ontario, home to capital city Ottawa and business center Toronto, in particular seeing strong demand from foreign buyers.

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch of an in - depth study to examine Fresno's important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay Area and the state's fifth largest city.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

Nitsba co-CEO Sharon Toussia - Cohen told «Globes,» «Like the successful Airport City business site we developed and built in the previous decade, this site will have an unusual location and access.»

Since Amazon decided about a decade ago to stay in downtown Seattle, the company said, it has invested over $ 4 billion in the construction and development of offices in the city, though it won't disclose the budget for the spheres.

Dr. Tournay Flatto spent a decade as President of the Emerald Foundation, an independently funded medical research foundation based in New York City and was the Director of External Affairs at the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

In January, Amazon placed Boston among 20 finalists to host the company's second North American headquarters, and Tuesday's announcement does not preclude the city from contention for the $ 5 billion project that the e-commerce giant has said would create some 50,000 jobs over the next decade.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.