Sentences with phrase «city subsidies»

The law, passed in 2012, would have guaranteed workers higher than minimum wage pay rates in organizations or businesses that received $ 1 million or more in city subsidies or development aid.

The measure establishes a floor for total wages and benefits that must be paid to any private enterprise receiving more than a million dollars in city subsidies.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn defended the bill yesterday as balanced, noting that it was changed substantially to exclude tenants of developers receiving city subsidies.

A recent report from Comptroller Scott Stringer's office found that each city household pays an «invisible fare» of $ 130 to subsidize the MTA before buying a MetroCard or paying a toll through taxes and other city subsidies for the agency.

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday laced into a City Council proposal to require developers getting city subsidies of $ 100,000 or more to pay employees $ 11.50 an hour, or $ 10 with benefits.

The disbursement of city subsidies,» he said.

The legislation «targets the crisis of confidence in city subsidy programs among landlords.

The proposed law requires that businesses accepting $ 1 million or more in city subsidies pay their workers at least $ 11.50 an hour, or $ 10 with benefits.

«My colleagues and I know that many of our constituents are calling for a larger percentage of units and deeper affordability levels — and we will get there in East New York through city subsidies,» he said.

CITY HALL — After months of heated debate and demonstrations, City Council Speaker Christine announced a deal Friday afternoon on controversial legislation that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than the minimum wage but would exempt their tenants from doing the same.

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Still, his administration has insisted the current plan is the only way to create the most below - market apartments possible — developers simply can't afford to build any more or any cheaper, even with city subsidies.

In the run - up to last week's election, activists in Orthodox communities that rely heavily on an endangered city subsidy program for child care seem to have been concerned that Mayor Michael Bloomberg might not renew the program if Orthodox voters didn't back his pick for attorney general.

Half of the units were slated to be affordable under the deal struck between with developers that included city subsidies, according to Politco New York.

Quinn — a former housing activist who made history twice by becoming both the first female and first openly gay speaker — has recently been working on a council - wide compromise on the controversial «living wage» bill, which would require developers who get significant city subsidies to pay employees at least $ 10 an hour.

Rob Bookman, the lawyer of the New York Nightlife Association, also warned the bill would create thousands of landlord - tenant disputes, as tenants — like stores and restaurants — are forced to pay their employees higher wages, even though it is developers who benefit from city subsidy perks.

And not all of Mr. Ickes's New York clients have gotten what they sought, including JPMorgan Chase, which decided not to build a new headquarters at Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan after failing to obtain city subsidies.

Cuomo has argued to stop giving cities subsidies because he says it only perpetuates the problem.

They further point out that there is a separate billion - dollar fund set aside to address services growing neighborhoods will need when the new housing projects are built and that there are additional city subsidies that will be used to build additional affordable housing.

Then don't take city subsidies, don't have changes in zoning, build according to your footprint,» he said.

Mayor Giuliani - a Roman Catholic - has said he will carry out his threat to cut the museum's $ 7m city subsidy on Wednesday morning because of the gallery's determination to proceed with the show.

Mindful of criticism that she has moved to the right politically in her years as speaker, Quinn also mentioned her role in enacting a living wage requirement for businesses receiving city subsidies, in curbing deportation of undocumented immigrants convicted of minor offenses, in protecting a woman's right to choose, and in preventing teacher layoffs.

It required developers who receive $ 1 million or more in city subsidies pay their workers $ 10 an hour, or $ 11.50 with minimum wage.

Negotiations had brought the project up to 50 percent affordability, or 178 units, in part funded through city subsidies.

The announcement comes after months of heated debate over the potential adoption of a new «living wage» bill that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than minimum wage.

For its annual operating budget, the MTA also depends on state and city subsidies, as well as a dedicated tax revenue, for 43 percent of costs.

Mr. de Blasio's team argued that the program would ensure the creation of middle class housing, and thus free up city subsidies that they could then devote solely to financing apartments for the poor.

Effective immediately, commercial tenants at projects receiving more than $ 1 million in city subsidies will be part of the living wage provisions, including the hourly increase.

The council also voted to override the mayor's veto of a controversial bill that would force developers who receive more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the minimum wage.

The bill guarantees a minimum pay of $ 10 an hour with benefits or $ 11.50 per hour without for workers on projects that receive city subsidies.

City subsidies will also be deployed wherever possible to finance new developments in which all apartments are affordable.

On the NYC Ferry, where riders pay $ 2.75 per trip, the city subsidy amounts to about $ 6.60 per passenger, according the earlier calculations released by the city.

It was a press conference hailing the construction of a new Staten Island grocery store getting $ 2 million in city subsidies.

Indeed, the proposal predicts creating 15,000 new affordable housing units would cost about $ 3.83 billion, including about $ 1.875 billion in city subsidies, through the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

The latest skirmish between Mr. Stringer and the mayor comes after the mayor signed an executive order yesterday boosting the city's «living wage» law — increasing the minimum wage at products with $ 1 million in city subsidies to $ 13.13 an hour, and expanding it to apply to tenants of buildings subsidized by the city.

Under the proposed legislation, developers who received more than $ 1 million in city subsidies would be forced to pay workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly higher than current minimum wage.

Under his Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning proposal, the developers were seeking to build a taller complex in exchange for including affordable housing — with 50 percent of the units being offered below market - rate, thanks to city subsidies.

She also is contemplating a council proposal to require prevailing wages, which are set by the city comptroller, for work done in buildings that receive at least $ 10,000 in city subsidies.

In the waning days of 2013, with Bloomberg on his way out of City Hall, a deal was cut: Empire Outlets would receive $ 50 million, mostly in city subsidies, and the powerful Building Trades Council would support the mayor's (ultimately unsuccessful) plans to re-zone areas of east midtown, in Manhattan.

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

Most recently, James joined progressive groups in calling for higher wages and a change in the city's economic development policies, including more stringent requirements for banks and corporations that receive city subsidies.

The next issue could be the so - called Living Wage bill, a measure that would require businesses that get a city subsidy to pay their workers, not just the minimum wage but a living wage of $ 10 to $ 11.50 an hour, depending upon benefits.

The mayor's executive order will benefit thousands of workers, covering employees of commercial tenants in development projects that take in more than $ 1 million in city subsidies.

The living wage bill would force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

The rule would also apply to a handful of economic development projects receiving more than $ 1 million in city subsidies.

When de Blasio announced the expansion, she seemed — without going so far as to express an actual difference with the administration — to convey pique in her remarks, which focused heavily on the Council's role in mandating a living wage for workers at companies receiving at least $ 1 million in city subsidies.

Denouncing the Ofili work among others as «sick stuff,» Rudolph W. Giuliani, then the mayor, threatened to cut off the city subsidy to the Brooklyn Museum, where the painting was featured in «Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection.»

Mr Giuliani has told Brooklyn Museum of Art that its $ 7.2 m (# 4.4 m) city subsidy will be removed unless it scraps Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, which opens next week.

The study found support for city subsidies to help make existing buildings more environmentally friendly; a $ 2.50 surcharge on the average household monthly electricity bill to support public education on energy use; and support for the installation of solar panels on city - owned buildings, even if the electricity generated is significantly more expensive than what what the government now pays for electrical power.