Sentences with phrase «comes as the city»

The concerns over a Hunt's Point jail facility come as city officials discuss alternatives should Rikers Island be phased out.

De Blasio's speech came as City Hall officials fanned out in churches across the city on Sunday to rally the mayor's base as he stumps for his Albany agenda, which could require striking a deal with Cuomo.

Flanagan's remarks came as City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina arrived in Albany for an appearance before the Assembly Education Committee.

The conservative cost estimate comes as city spending on homelessness has soared under de Blasio.

But it also comes as the city is threatened with massive cuts from the Trump Administration, which has suggested chopping Housing and Urban Development grants and threatened to yank law enforcement funding grants due to New York's sanctuary city status.

The poll comes as the city and union are butting heads over a new teacher - evaluation system, which would be used in teacher - firing decisions.

The resurfacing of the controversial performers comes as City Council members including Dan Garodnick, Corey Johnson and Ydanis Rodriguez introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow the city's Department of Transportation to set rules regulating activity in pedestrian plazas throughout the city.

The gaffe comes as the city board is already under fire for delays and confusion at the polls during September's primary.

The study comes as the city is grappling with a record 937 fatal drug overdoses in 2015, a 66 percent increase since 2010.

Ms. Meng's victory comes as the city's most prominent Asian - American elected official, John C. Liu, the city comptroller, is facing a federal investigation into his campaign fund - raising practices, so she could emerge as the national face of New York's Asian - Americans.

It also comes as the city enters its second year of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Vision Zero plan to completely eliminate traffic fatalities.

Henderson's unexpected departure comes as the city is experiencing an influx of wealth and new residents, and more parents are choosing D.C. Public Schools.

The drop in students, and the attendant loss in school funding, came as the city district faces a $ 129 million budget deficit.

This comes as the city of North Las Vegas is starting construction on infrastructure projects to bring water, sewer and improved street access to the Apex Industrial Park.

Not exact matches

Sustainability has been part of its fabric since its founding in 1853, as have the progressive values that came to typify San Francisco, the city it calls home.

The company plans to follow its customers as they move back to cities, with new urban locations that are smaller than its 1,800 big boxes, and stop playing catch - up when it comes to digital.

As a financial planner in New York City, I've come to expect new client meetings to include conversations about financial anxiety, confusion, and frustration.

And, having played ultimate throughout summer camp as a kid (often with Marc), briefly in college, and for two seasons in a scrappy New York City league (yes, I realize I'm officially coming out of the nerd closet here), I was invited to play Thursday.

Casino operators agreed to raise wages during the last round of negotiations in 2013 as the city was coming out of the recession.

Here are a few things I learned at the J.P. Morgan Health Conference this week: (1) Vice-presidential motorcades tie up as much traffic as presidential ones; (2) San Francisco hotels have no compunction about charging pharma - sphere prices, especially when the city is overrun by pharma executives; (3) no one will ever know if you brought more than one blue blazer to a four - day meeting; and (4) in my next life I want to come back as Bryan Roberts.

The same was true last year, when this year's No. 2, Estonia, topped the list; this year's and last year's top five cities all came from those regions as well.

The fresh hit comes five days after the monster storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, pummeling the US Gulf Coast with torrential rains that turned neighborhoods into lakes in America's fourth largest city, Houston.

Now comes word of more legal woes: The cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles have sued the company over allegations that it overcharges consumers, as well as makes misleading claims about the safety of its service.

It's very common to see public education, private education, city government, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits come together to solve a problem as a group.

The speech — to be held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City at 11:30 a.m. ET — comes as a slew of establishment Republicans take aim at Trump's candidacy.

The employees were in Spain as part of a program called GHouse, in which the company rents an apartment in a foreign city and sends groups of six staffers there for two - week spells to come up with innovative ideas.

New York City Comptroller John Liu, trying to gain traction for his campaign for mayor, has come out as the latest advocate for the legalization of marijuana.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Hometeam's revenue will continue to come from individual families, as well as from private insurance companies, as it expands to more cities across the U.S.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

The accident came as France is preparing to celebrate its most important national holiday, Bastille Day, on Sunday, and as masses of vacationers are heading out of Paris and other big cities to see family or on summer vacation.

Zuckerberg explained, «Progress now requires coming together, not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.»

Well, we've looked at some of the data and the cities that signify the top five may come as a surprise.

It's almost as if the music gods came down from the sky and said «Autotune users will be jailed,» or city bureaucrats posted a «Skateboarders will be prosecuted» sign on my driveway.

The city initially held its position, even as de Blasio came under increasing fire.

The idea for the product came from her background as a New York City Ballet dancer.

Many of the counties with the highest net immigration relative to their 2016 population come as no surprise — counties in and around the big cities in the Northeast, in South Florida, and along the Texas border all saw a large amount of population growth from immigration.

Visions of the Smart City are starting to materialize as CTO's for major municipalities are coming to understand how Internet of Things products and services can provide cost savings, increase quality of life and promote safety in urban environments.

Ruby Polanco, the Honduras - born founder of Ruby Makeup Academy, based in Temple City, California, came to America like hundreds of thousands of other immigrants — she was brought here as a child.

Mallory says that A Day Without Woman supports both IWD and IWS, but that the inspiration for the movement came from the Feb. 16 Day Without Immigrants strike, as well as the Yemeni - American - lead bodega shutdown in New York City.

And while the difference in population between Canada and some of these major countries may come to a relative halt, their cities are set to eclipse ours as they go through the same urbanization process that we have already benefited from.

The official did not give further details over the arrest but noted it had come just as Turkey prepares to host world leaders for the G20 summit in its southern resort city of Antalya on Sunday and Monday.

Elsheikh came to the UK as a child from Sudan, when his family were granted refugee status, and was a mechanic from White City in west London.

You can buy Teatulia's products in food stores, but a lot of people's first exposure to the brand may just come when they're dining out at a restaurant, such as City Bakery or Birdbath Bakery, or in their college's food hall, including the University of Michigan.

But while the announcement is no - doubt shocking (as Police Chief Bill Blair remarked, «We have no historical precedent for doing that in Ontario), it comes on the heels of a similar move in numerous U.S. cities, where the axe has already fallen on those previously considered to be untouchable.

While business groups in Indiana, such as the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, have come out decisively against the law, Indianapolis, the center of business conference activity in the state, is now fighting to make sure that businesses don't abandon the city's vital convention industry.

The list came with many surprising data points: Muncie, Indiana, was named as the city with the best access to financing, and Southern California (otherwise lauded as the «Silicon Beach») was said to have one of the least educated work forces in the U.S. — in the cities of Bell Gardens, Maywood, Coachella, Soledad, and Wasco.

Infrastructure spending could come, just as it did by the efforts of Van Rysselberge in Oklahoma City, from passing local sales taxes to fund those programs.

As investor appetite improves and the Big Apple's tech scene continues to mature, analysts expect New York City to become a hub of tech IPO activity in coming years.

«After going against stiff competition throughout the Challenge Cup, Twiga Fruits emerged tonight as this year's most promising, problem - solving startup, and we look forward to helping them innovate and improve the Transportation & Cities industry for years to come.»