Sentences with phrase «city rail yard»

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With «revenue plucked from the air,» in the words of Wilgus, the New York Central transformed its unsightly rail yard — an urban eyesore — into a commercial and residential district that contemporaries called Terminal City.

In the years since, Rahmé has created edgy and whimsical perfumes for men and women, all blended in New York by handpicked French perfumers and each recognizing a specific city locale, from Harlem to Wall Street and Madison Square Park to the High Line, the transformed elevated rail yard she «perfumed» five years ago.

In New York City alone, MTA brass never attempted to sell $ 12 million worth of air rights over rail yards that could be used for commercial structures — even though they hired Massey Knakal Realty Services in 2006 to consult on the matter.

The city has picked architecture firm PAU to devise a master plan for the 180 - acre Sunnyside rail yards in Queens.

When the mayor pitched the idea to develop the sprawling rail yard during his second State of the City address in early 2015, critics said it would be too costly to make affordable housing work.

There was the time, less than a month later, when Mr. de Blasio, as a centerpiece of his State of the City address, announced a plan to build an affordable housing complex on a Queens rail yard — and Mr. Cuomo, within hours, shot it down.

The congresswoman was joined by state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria), City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) and representatives from the transportation and contractor fields when she visited the yards to explain the benefits of the grant, which New York received after Florida rejected $ 2 million in federal funds for high - speed rail.

The city's Economic Development Corporation issued a request for proposals to study the feasibility of development at the rail yards in February.

Related and the city envision the 26 - acre site, currently an MTA - owned rail yard, to be a massive new neighborhood, composed of new skyscrapers and about 13 million square feet of commercial and residential space.

It sits on a site purchased by the city that once contained a rail yard, a laundry and a plant that made gas from coal.

Martin Ritt's feature directing debut, Edge of the City, is a social - conscious melodrama set in the rail yards of New York City.

Beginning with outgoing mayor Richard Daley, community leaders fell all over the Chinese as part of their multifaceted effort to transform Chicago from a city of meat packers and rail yards into the hub of Sino - American commercial activity of every sort.

Growing from the group of «taggers» belonging to the cultures of hip - hop and punk rock, street art no longer solely describes the artists who spray - canned the train - yards, subway rails and abandoned nightclubs of New York City, Los Angeles, and London in the 1970s.

A 2006 comprehensive analysis of Washington State's train transit by Cambridge Systematics determined the system is nearing capacity and indicated significant bottlenecks and congestion at important ports and cities due to limited capacity in rail yards and poor station configuration.

In a New York Times op - ed, Doctoroff argued that Sunnyside Yards, a 160 - acre rail yard on the border of Long Island City, would be an ideal spot for the Javits Center, which is located on Eleventh Avenue between 34th and 40th streets in Manhattan.»