Sentences with phrase «city speech»

Cuomo delivered his speech before the prime time program began, around 7:30 pm, and he started the speech by mentioning his father, and Mario Cuomo's famous 1984 Tale of Two Cities speech at the San Francisco convention 32 years ago.

New York City speech pathologist Joslin Zeplin agrees.

He says he plans to mention his father Mario Cuomo, the former governor who gave the memorable Tale of Two Cities speech at the 1984 convention.

Speaking outside of One World Trade Center following Cuomo's New York City speech, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox said the governor chose to reveal his budget priorities via a statewide tour because he wants to run president — and to get away from an increasingly hostile Legislature.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to make civic engagement a centerpiece of his State of the City speech this evening, calling on all New Yorkers to vote and get counted in the 2020 census, investing $ 4.3 million to achieve higher levels of participation.

The hero soldier who perished saving others from a deadly Bronx blaze in December will be honored at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's State of the City speech tonight.

Christine Quinn will address the city's growing wealth divide in her final State of the City speech.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn presented her vision for New York in her State of the City speech.

In his State of the City speech — the first by a City Comptroller in recent memory — Liu, who is widely expected to run for mayor despite being the subject of a federal investigation, jumped on the «Lin - sanity» bandwagon.

NEW YORK CITY — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will outline plans designed to strengthen and build the city's shrinking middle class in her final State of the City speech Monday, her office said, before she launches her expected bid for mayor.

In his first State of the City speech, Comptroller John Liu focused on his policies — and Jeremy Lin.

In NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's State of the City speech this week, which ran to over 8,000 words, a mere 214 of them were devoted to education.

The mayor put the issue, which has had the town buzzing in recent weeks, in her annual State of the City speech.

The commission was formed by Lippman at the request of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who proposed the possibility of closing Rikers Island during her State of the City speech last month.

Cuomo, speaking recently at an event with Vice President Joe Biden, quoted from his own father, former Governor Mario Cuomo's famous Tale of Two Cities speech at the 1984 Democratic convention, saying he wanted to continue his father's cause of economic justice by making a $ 15 an hour universal minimum wage in New York a top priority.

«The mayor made his argument again in his State of the City speech,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute said in a statement.

Skelos» comments, which came as the mayor delivered his first State of the City speech, drew an immediate backlash from the city's Democrats, including Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein, who shares leadership of the Senate with Skelos.

CITY HALL — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn vowed to build 40,000 affordable, middle - class apartments over the next 10 years during her final State of the City speech as speaker Monday.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a reality.

As she prepares to step down at the end of the year, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner will give her state of the city speech on Thursday outlining her priorities for 2017.

At her state of the city speech, Council Speaker Christine Quinn also suggested easing alternate side of the street parking regulations to create more parking, and a law to prohibit agents from issuing tickets to drivers who momentarily step away from their vehicles to pay the meters.

In his state of the city speech, he said work has already started finding ways the city can collaborate with Onondaga County.

Mayor Stephanie Miner boils down her State of the City speech to a 30 - second summary.

De Blasio said in his State of the City speech today that the rail yards — which sit on about 200 acres — should be covered and housing built on top, producing 11,250 affordable units.

Mayor Lou Rosamilia suggested a charter review commission in his 2014 State of the City speech, a proposal that never moved forward.

When Mayor de Blasio gave his State of the City speech he did not plant the flag of Massachusetts in front of the New York flags, and it would have been bizarre if he had done so.

If Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas» state of the city speech is like last year's, he will likely highlight his accomplishments and criticize others.

But, as I informed my dopey correspondent, the State of the City speech is not the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

In her State of the City speech, NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito took aim at the «broken windows» approach to policing, proposing a significant easing of penalties for certain minor quality - of - life offenses like jumping turnstiles.

De Blasio pledged to end veteran homelessness in his State of the City speech in February, but advocates said the mayor's goal relies disproportionately on a grant from the federal government, which will help the city create a housing plan for military veterans in the shelter system.

Calling the idea offered by the speaker during her State of the City speech last week «interesting and intriguing,» Cuomo said the island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be «more appropriate.»

Melissa Mark - Viverito delivering her State of the City speech today.

During her State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito said Rikers had come to «represent our worst tendencies, and our biggest failures.»

Mayor de Blasio, in his State of the City speech on Monday, briefly acknowledged that his administration has more to do on tackling homelessness, but provided no details, promising to address it in the coming days.

The Rikers plan was announced in City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's annual State of the City speech earlier this month.

The minister also praised Governor Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, who died earlier this month, saying the elder Cuomo understood income, class and race disparity when he gave his Tale of Two Cities speech at the 1984 Democratic National convention.

In her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationals.

NEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable units.

Yesterday, during his first annual State of the City speech, Mr. de Blasio announced plans to press Albany on the wage issue, even though he is still fighting to get his universal pre-K plan approved by both Mr. Cuomo and the state legislature, which also control most city tax rates.

Mark - Viverito first raised the possibility of reclassifying the crimes in February during her State of the City speech.

Brown's address Friday afternoon used selected highlights from previous State of the City speeches, including a clip from his 2008 speech during which he declared the city's fiscal crisis over.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in his State of the City speech in January he would propose legislation to allow livery cabs in the outer boroughs to pick up people hailing on the street — prohibited under current law.

Demonstrators also interrupted Mayor Byron W. Brown's State of the City speech at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.

«The New York City speech will do two things: it defines the progressive agenda and it's the first major statement since the election,» the official said.

The council's agenda closely follows the plans laid out by Mark - Viverito in her State of the City speech last month, particularly on criminal justice and a push to reform the city's bail system under a proposal currently being weighed in Albany.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, speaking outside of the World Trade Center, said no legislators attended the New York City speech.