Sentences with phrase «east river»

So Mr. Schwartz, who proposed a toll system for the East River bridges, came up with a «toll swap:» as new tolls were added to the bridges, existing tolls would be lowered on other bridges linking areas with few subway and transit alternatives, such as the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge linking Brooklyn and Staten Island.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was involved in a minor fender bender Saturday morning on the Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive.

Kallos, who represents District 5 — covering East 54th Street to 100th Street, from the East River to Second Avenue, parts of Lexington Avenue, El Barrio along Park Avenue and Roosevelt Island — will make 1.52 times what his constituents make.

At issue in their latest fight is Move NY, a plan engineered by former city traffic commissioner (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz that entails placing tolls on the East River bridges and 60th Street in Manhattan to raise money for mass transit.

«We had tolls on the East River bridges until 1911, when Mayor William Gaynor removed the tolls, and as a result, it almost sounded the death knell for the East River bridges,» he said.

«Everybody you talk to, pro or con, believes that some kind of road pricing plan is going to come to New York City,» he said Tuesday, during a press conference to formally unveil Move NY, the (Gridlock) Sam Schwartz - designed proposal to toll the East River bridges and 60th Street, lower tolls in the outer boroughs where mass transit options are scarce, and, in so doing, raise money for the M.T.A.

Lee Berman is a lifelong resident of East River Co-op.

The schools and charitable organizations receiving the turkeys are the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition, the East River Development Alliance, Project H.O.M.E., and Public School 209 in the Bronx.

On NY1, Cuomo also dismissed out of hand the notion that the Move NY congestion pricing plan, which would put tolls on the East River bridges and across 60th Street, was even remotely an option.

Corlears Hook Park — our neighborhood's entryway to East River Park — has undergone significant upgrades over the past five years thanks to local organizing by Friends of Corlears Hook Park.

The Fix NYC plan proposes creating a congestion zone around Manhattan's busiest neighborhoods, from 60th Street south to the Battery and from the Hudson River to the East River.

According to a new report by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the number of LIRR disruptions caused by problems in and around the East River Tunnels have increased by 72 percent since Sandy — accounting for nearly a fifth of the increase in all of the delays and cancellations throughout the LIRR, which includes 700 miles of track.

As a director of East River Co-op, Lee fought for cost savings and budget reform, encouraged greater transparency and communication with cooperators, and was accessible and as helpful as possible to his neighbors.

Re-opening the site at East 91st Street along the East River was part of a larger plan the Bloomberg administration passed in 2006 to enable each borough to handle transportation of its own trash and help the city move more garbage onto barges to cut down long - haul truck traffic.

«I can not think of a better example of actual highway robbery,» Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Queens) said Sunday of the East River plan.

The L Train East River Tunnel requires extensive repairs that will disrupt the commute of thousands of New Yorkers for 18 months or more.

Amtrak says repairs to the East River tunnels damaged by Superstorm Sandy and used by the Long Island Rail Road may not start before 2025.

The existing toll structure promotes unsafe behavior by prompting drivers to exit highways «that were designed for large volumes of traffic and where no pedestrians and cyclists exist and you can't hit them, and puts them onto city streets,» en route to the toll - free East River bridges, said Matthiessen.

An audit from the comptroller's office, under Bill Thompson in 2008, raised concerns about another East River facility overseen by the EDC.

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the arraignment on a 15 - count indictment of Luke Park, owner of the Park Family Farm located at or near 3036 East River Road in Homer, New York.

If major reforms are not achieved at the MTA and the ruling stands up on appeal, the likely place the MTA will get more money is through major subway and bus fare hike or by installing tolls on East River bridges.

The East River bridges would not have been tolled, but the proposal still got bottled up in the State Assembly when members from Brooklyn and Queens objected.

The Obamas have been looking at 10 Gracie Square on the Upper East Side, situated between East End Avenue and East River Drive and near the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, according to sources who have seen the couple arriving at the building for viewings.

«No matter how we presented Move NY... the headline writers, the headline always come out, «Tolls on the East River bridges» and that just rubs people the wrong way,» Schwartz recalled.

Part of the spending plan includes funding for the first phase of the Interstate 390 project, including new ramps on Kendrick Road and East River Road near the University of Rochester.

There would be no tolls on the East River crossings, and the toll on the Verazzano would stay the same.

As part of this study, Dr. O'Mullan and his students are also collecting temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen data, to more fully understand the impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) in the East River and its bays and tributaries.

The Two Bridges Urban Renewal Area extended from Market Street to Montgomery Street along the East River.

Some transit advocates have pinned their hopes for more transit funding on the latest congestion pricing plan to make the rounds in Albany — Sam Schwartz's Move NY, which would levy tolls on East River bridges and along 60th Street, and lower them on outer - borough crossings.

Unlike its predecessor, Move NY's designers have cannily won backing from some outer - borough and suburban leaders by promising to lower tolls in the outer boroughs, at the same time it levies them on the East River bridges and along 60th Street in Manhattan.

LOWER EAST SIDE — The East River Ferry should expand its route to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn Heights, where additional stops would add a «storm resilient» transportation option while also serving growing waterfront communities and parks, elected officials say.

We have more today on the upcoming public meetings regarding three massive development projects along the East River.

Officials said ferry service would also help visitors access Harbor Park at Pier 42 as well as «resiliency and recreational upgrades» that would be implemented by the «Big U» Rebuild by Design Project, which includes landscaped paths that would lead into East River Park.

Schwartz is a renowned traffic engineer and the proposal Ryan referenced is Move New York, which involves reducing tolls at bridges with less traffic and increasing them in higher traffic areas, variable pricing for peak and off - peak hours, and adding tolls to the East River bridges, among other ideas.

A dozen local politicians urged the city's Economic Development Corporation to add East River Ferry stops at Grand Street in Manhattan and at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to a letter sent to EDC President Kyle Kimball on Oct. 22.

Howard Hughes would also pay for a new stretch of the East River Waterfront Esplanade that would extend from under the Brooklyn Bridge to John Street, according to the Journal.

The city is now evaluating the proposals, which would add around 2,000 mostly market rate apartments along the East River.

While Heastie might be personally supportive of putting tolls on the East River bridges — a crucial element of the overall plan — he, like Silver before him, must now account for the political needs of his conference.

Some insight into State Senator Pedro Espada's plan to charge motorists $ 2 each way to cross East River bridges.

Rikers Island, in the East River across from La Guardia Airport, serves as the principal jail complex for New York City.

Other grants awarded by the borough president include: $ 250,000 for the bike path near Jackson Street along the East River, $ 200,000 for the Al Smith Rec Center on Catherine Street and $ 100,000 for an East River Park wetland project being spearheaded by the LES Ecology Center.

Cuomo's spending on security comes three days after Officer Randolph Holder, who patrolled NYCHA developments, was allegedly shot by a career criminal who lived in the authority's East River Houses.

The city already has other jails besides Rikers Island: in Lower Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, as well as on a floating barge off the Bronx in the East River.

Albanese supports a proposed congestion pricing initiative, known as Move New York, to impose tolls on the three East River bridges to help fund the subways; while de Blasio called congestion pricing a «regressive tax» and stressed that his proposal for a millionaire's tax to fund subway repairs was a more viable alternative, even though his proposal has largely been shot down by the GOP - controlled state Senate and de Blasio sees it passing only once Democrats take control of that house of the Legislature in January 2019, which de Blasio said was soon.

Constantinides proposed an addition to PlanNYC requiring that at least 20 percent of new constructions be carbon neutral by 2030 and a study of the Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Astoria to see if it could be into a park, similar to Riverbank State Park, which is built over a sewage treatment facility on the East River.

The transformation of Governors Island into a driver of innovation and a project that would bring a streetcar to the East River waterfront are among proposals New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio planned to highlight in his State of the City address Thursday.

Last night, during what was billed as a «virtual» town hall meeting live from Albany, Pedro Espada, the state senator and Senate majority leader, announced that he now favors tolling four East River bridges.

He and his family will make a temporary move to the five - bedroom estate overlooking the East River at East End Avenue and 88th Street, he said on his website today.

For example, the LES Ecology Center has proposed a floating swimming pool below 14th Street — to highlight the issue of water quality in the East River.

(And thank you to East River cooperator Cynthia Pappas for chartering the bus and letting us team up.)