Sentences with phrase «conference at city hall»

«An average single family pays more than $ 800 for water each year, so if this system leads to relatively modest reductions in water used by, let's say, 5 percent of homeowners, there will be significant savings for them, and we all know that nobody likes water rates,» Mr. Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall.

«I personally have not spoken with the district attorney,» Mr. de Blasio told the Observer at an unrelated press conference at City Hall.

«Of course, whether someone was a supporter or donor was not a factor,» de Blasio said at an unrelated news conference at City Hall, when asked by Gotham Gazette whether

I think there's also been some miscommunication and we want to resolve it,» Mr. de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference at City Hall today when asked whether his administration had dropped the ball on the issue by not making it a priority during his negotiations with Albany.

The mayor hastily added a noon press conference at City Hall to his public schedule this morning.

New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito speaks at a press conference at City Hall, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and Kirsten John Foy of the National Action Network (NAN), Lancman, Donovan Richards, chairman of the Council's Committee on Public Safety and other Council members held a press conference at City Hall on Tuesday morning to denounce racial disparities in marijuana arrests.

The latest urgings come from New York City officials, who held a news conference at City Hall.

More than 100 feminist leaders and social justice groups called for passage of the Right to Know Act at a press conference at City Hall.

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.

«When you look throughout the city and some of the challenges we have... the enemy was really us,» Sheehan, a Democrat up for re-election this year, said during a press conference at City Hall.

He was speaking at a news conference at City Hall with an erstwhile rival in the Republican race, the Rev. Michel J. Faulkner, who is now running for comptroller.

«I take full responsibility for the fact that this has not worked out as either of us had hoped and expected,» Bloomberg said during the press conference at City Hall announcing the decision.

Progressive activists aligned with the mayor hounded Ms. Moskowitz during a recent press conference at City Hall.

At a press conference at City Hall on Thursday afternoon, Mayor Bill de Blasio also took aim at Trump's proposal.

The priorities enumerated in the document are a clear indication of the type of independence that Johnson has promised since taking office, with a focus on «strengthening the social safety net, fighting for the middle class and handling taxpayers» money responsibly,» as Johnson put it at a news conference at City Hall.

«I am happy at the point that we have arrived at — a point of agreement with the industry, with this council and with the administration,» Mark - Viverito told reporters during an unrelated press conference at City Hall.

«There's no impending strike at the moment,» Michael Cordiello, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181, told reporters at a press conference at City Hall, where he and other union leaders slammed the Bloomberg administration for creating «unnecessary fear» among parents by warning of the strike.

«The recommendations we are rolling out today not only present a budget that is fiscally responsible, but a budget that remains true to the council's commitment to making ours a city that helps all New Yorkers in all five boroughs,» she told reporters at a press conference at City Hall.

«Working together, as I've said again and again was going to happen, we've produced an on - time, balanced budget for our city that does not raise taxes on New Yorkers and that preserves the essential services that we all rely on,» the mayor said at a press conference at City Hall, flanked by dozens of City Council members.

Astute political watchers noticed when former mayoral candidate Christine Quinn attended a recent women's press conference at City Hall in support of Gov. Cuomo's candidate for Lt. Governor, Kathy Hochul...

«We believe in a parent - friendly, family - friendly approach... to get parents what they need,» de Blasio said during a press conference at City Hall announcing the agreement, which followed threats from New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to pass a law to force the city to streamline the process if the city didn't do so willingly.

But Ms. Barron, who said she will be holding a press conference at City Hall this week to promote the resolution, doesn't think there's any conflict - of - interest on the matter.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks on April 26, 2017 during a press conference at City Hall in Manhattan.

New York City's next schools Chancellor Richard Carranza during a news conference at City Hall on Monday.

de Blasio hosted a meeting and press conference at City Hall with House members Charles B. Rangel, Joe Crowley, Carolyn Maloney, Jose Serrano, Nydia Velazquez, Hakeem Jeffries, Gregory Meeks and Yvette Clarke.

«I do not have enough sense of modern political history to fully analyze because I don't know enough honestly about the relationships between the particular governors and mayors,» said de Blasio during an afternoon press conference at City Hall.

New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, joined by civil - rights activist Al Sharpton Tuesday at a press conference at City Hall, said prosecutors should stop making pot arrests altogether.

Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference at City Hall for his organization «Mayors Against Illegal Guns.»

Following Cuomo's visit, two top aides for the mayor held their own press conference at City Hall to answer the governor.

The city unveiled the color of the new taxicab for the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan this past Sun., Apr. 29th at a morning press conference at City Hall Plaza that featured a Prius model painted in what Mayor Michael Bloomberg called, «green apple.»

Just hours before Mahoney announced the state funding in her State of the County address Tuesday evening, the mayor held a press conference at City Hall to say that the endowment fund had just reached $ 10 million.

«Under this legislation it will be illegal to operate any motorized device within New York City that is incapable of being registered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicle, unless the motor vehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at City Hall.

«This is a very dangerous decision made by a judge who I believe does not understand what good policing is,» Bloomberg said at a Monday afternoon press conference at City Hall, flanked by NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Law Department Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill will remain the top cop for at least four more years, he and the mayor announced in a press conference at City Hall today.

Sen. Liz Krueger's office earlier today sent out an advisory for a news conference at City Hall in Manhattan tomorrow at noon that will include Sen. Kevin Parker, Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, environmental advocate Ramsey Adams, Brooklyn attorney Eric Snyder and Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long.

«This is a matter you must frankly direct to Number 10 Downing Street, and I suggest you ask them,» he said during a bruising press conference at City Hall.

Koch does not employ the dreaded «e» word — that would be «enemy» of course — either in this letter or at a press conference at City Hall in Lower Manhattan this afternoon.

During a Blue Room press conference at City Hall, a seemingly exasperated Bloomberg said he «didn't even know» about Quinn's backing of Schneiderman, adding: «Why does there have to be an enemy and a fight on everything; why on earth would I care?»

«This is a city that people who want to take away from freedoms gravitate to,» Bloomberg said at a news conference at City Hall that included Kelly and DA Cyrus Vance.

Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks as he presents his preliminary budget during a press conference at city hall, Thursday Feb. 1, 2018, in New York.

Nicole Malliotakis holds a press conference at the City Hall steps to announce that she is running for mayor, Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

«Those drills are going to become commonplace in our schools now, starting immediately, until the day that we as a nation address the underlying issue,» de Blasio said during an unrelated news conference at City Hall.

The mayor put a positive spin on the NYPD's leadership change during a hastily scheduled news conference at City Hall.

But when he says he is not «exacerbating» the threat (a word he used repeatedly during a one - hour press conference at the city hall), he stresses that the city has a serious problem with its subterranean infrastructure.

City Council member Diana Reyna, joined by a local community group, claimed in a press conference at City Hall today that two new residential...

Meanwhile, environmental advocates Monday morning were scheduled to hold a press conference at City Hall calling on the state to pass the Fix NYC plan as part of the new state budget due April 1.

There is a First Amendment protection for begging,» Mr. de Blasio said at an unrelated press conference at City Hall today.

«I'm actually dedicating my speech to Donald Trump, because I think that thanks to his lovely anti-immigrant rhetoric, his misogyny, his bigotry, he's really galvanizing and mobilizing and energizing immigrant communities across the nation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico and the first Latina to be Council speaker, said today during a press conference at City Hall.

At a press conference at City Hall, Bloomberg said that he and Black met that morning and had «mutually agreed» that she should step down.