Sentences with phrase «community board chairs»

While the votes by the borough boards, made up of community board chairs and City Councilmembers, are merely advisory, they could strongly influence the City Council's official vote on the proposals, expected to take place in 2016.

Community board chair Adrienne Adams entered the Senate race when Sanders was talking about running for that higher office, and party officials are continuing to back her despite Sanders» re-entry.

Mayor de Blasio had 5 opponents file against him — former Councilman Sal Albanese, criminal justice reformer Robert Gangi, former Community Board Chair Richard Basher, perennial candidate Bill Murawski & Michael Tolkin.

This year, he also briefly challenged longtime Queens Congressman Greg Meeks, a move that led Queens party leaders, including chairman Joe Crowley, to begin fundraising for and publicly backing Adams, a Queens community board chair.

At the November 30 meeting, all 10 community board chairs in attendance, in addition to Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilmember Rosie Méndez, voted against de Blasio's proposals.

Community Board Chair Gigi Li has yet to announce the members of the new task force.

Community Board chairs Jo Hamilton and John Weis, who helped hand out fliers remained confident that the neighborhood could help identify the suspect.

Wills could technically run for the seat even if he's convicted and expelled from the Council, but community board chair Adrienne Adams could jump into the race with county support if he goes down before the September primary, sources said.

The party also touted wins by its endorsed candidates running for open Assembly seats, including: lawyer and play producer Robert Carroll, who won the Park Slope seat being vacated by retiring Assemblyman Jim Brennan; and community board chair and coffee shop founder Tremaine Wright (NYC), who landed the Bed - Stuy seat currently represented by retiring Assemblywoman Annette Robinson; Anthony Eramo (Long Island), who was victorious in the fight for now - Sen.

But community boards across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan have voted to reject much or all of the plan — as have the borough boards consisting of the community board chairs, local Council members and the borough presidents.

And in a Bedford - Stuyvesant district, community board chair and coffee shop founder Tremaine Wright received 58 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary to replace Assemblywoman Annette Robinson.

Bedford - Stuyvesant has been represented in the Assembly by Annette Robinson since 2002, but she's stepping down and endorsing Tremaine Wright, a community board chair and coffee shop founder.

While his opponents in the Democratic primary — current Assemblymember Guillermo Linares and Carmen De La Rosa, a former chief of staff to Councilman Ydanis Rodríguez — might be better known on the city's broader political scene, Fernández insisted that his work as a Community Board Chair and tenant organizer has prepared him for a role in the Assembly.

The Manhattan Borough Board includes Manhattan's twelve community board chairs and ten councilmembers, and is chaired by Borough President Brewer.