Sentences with phrase «efforts in new neighborhoods»

Denver, like most cities, has tried similar efforts in new neighborhoods or urban development efforts.

Not exact matches

Europe - based Bershka is another effort from Zara's parent company, Inditex, and it's testing a retail presence in the U.S. in New York's SoHo neighborhood.

His open letter also contains a fund - raising appeal and a notice that Graham's son Franklin, himself a major evangelical figure, is launching a new effort to «bring the Gospel into neighborhoods and homes in every corner of America next year.»

The beverage companies will utilize a range of marketplace activities in these Little Rock neighborhoods in an effort to help people reduce their calories: such as making lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages more available in stores, providing incentives for consumers to try these options and displaying new calorie awareness messages at points of sale.

The couple, Robert and Mildred Tong, parents of three children, had paid $ 50 for the commemorative brick last October as part of a fundraising effort to help pay for new playground equipment in Senn Park in the Edgewater neighborhood.

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywiNew York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywinew homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

But even after that victory, there's still plenty to be done in terms of neighborhood - specific efforts, like the combative one underway in East New York.

ALBANY, NY (02/24/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) will hold a press conference Monday morning in Rochester to discuss concerns about the potential harm to individuals, families, neighborhoods and the Rochester economy that may arise from state efforts to close Monroe Developmental Center and some group homes for the developmentally disabled.

«She'll fight to ensure that New York City keeps Rikers Island open and will stand arm to arm with New Yorkers to block any efforts to locate city jails in our neighborhoods.»

NIU attorney's also participate in joint law enforcement efforts such as the ONDCP's Weed and Seed Program, the national Project Safe Neighborhoods firearms interdiction program (locally designated as Project FED - UP), and the New York State sponsored «Impact» program.

However, Quinn and her supporters insist she has been a presence in the neighborhood since her first years on the job, supporting local projects from urban farms and anti-graffiti efforts to new HIV testing centers and the La Marqueta business incubator.

Rezoning efforts in New York tend to be met with protests and complaints, but Gowanus council member Brad Lander thinks his neighborhood could prove...

«This, coupled with new New York State legislation effective in December, will boost the City's effort to address critical blight in our neighborhoonew New York State legislation effective in December, will boost the City's effort to address critical blight in our neighborhooNew York State legislation effective in December, will boost the City's effort to address critical blight in our neighborhoods.

«We are grateful for this grant from Attorney General Schneiderman and for all his efforts to combat the negative impact of vacant and abandoned properties on the quality of life in Albany's neighborhoods and across New York State,» said Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan.

A new battle could be brewing after City Council members responded strongly to DNAinfo New York's exclusive report Thursday that City Hall has identified possible locations on Staten Island and in College Point, among other neighborhoods, to build new jails in an effort to close Rikers Islanew battle could be brewing after City Council members responded strongly to DNAinfo New York's exclusive report Thursday that City Hall has identified possible locations on Staten Island and in College Point, among other neighborhoods, to build new jails in an effort to close Rikers IslaNew York's exclusive report Thursday that City Hall has identified possible locations on Staten Island and in College Point, among other neighborhoods, to build new jails in an effort to close Rikers Islanew jails in an effort to close Rikers Island.

BROOKLYN — The city's plan to rezone East New York in an effort to bring thousands of affordable units to the neighborhood is «not the trigger for displacement» but is instead aimed at preventing locals from leaving, according to the head of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

The findings remind Rena Subotnik, director of the Center for Psychology in Schools and Education for the American Psychological Association, of a recent effort in New Jersey to put a medical clinic in the neighborhood with the greatest need for services.

Gangs has been a dream project for Scorsese for decades, and the effort and time spent on research shows through in each speck of dirt on Sandy Powell's period - perfect costumes and every loose shingle on every dilapidated building in production designer Dante Ferretti's uncanny recreation of 1863 New York City, specifically the neighborhood known as the Five Points.

New efforts aim to head off teacher biases by running preservice students through simulations or embedding them in urban neighborhoods.

A sweeping and ambitious turnaround plan for schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport led to a failed recall effort against the school board president this spring.

The resulting separation between white suburbs with new schools and middle - class students and an increasingly minority central city are all vividly recounted by Grant, who with his wife was deeply involved in efforts to counter the decline, and who in one neighborhood had some success in doing so.

Among the policies needed in New York, Dr. Orfield said, were citywide efforts to educate parents about magnet schools, transportation options to help children get to schools outside their often - segregated neighborhoods and accountability for diversity.

New Markets Tax Credits are given to private investors who then invest in or make loans to community development efforts in low - income neighborhoods, like charter schools.

And he alluded to his effort to build new schools in overcrowded neighborhoods.

«Since Mayor Rahm Emanuel took office in 2011, Chicago has ordered the closings of dozens of neighborhood public schools while approving a new wave of publicly financed, privately operated charter schools, in a much - touted effort to improve education.

This district public school, which is located in a high - poverty neighborhood in New York City, has historically struggled to engage parents in its educational efforts, and welcomed Family Playlists as a potentially effective tool to do so.

Emancipet is currently in search of two new permanent locations to open in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Houston within the next year, depending on the success of fundraising efforts.

«Many exhibits cast an eye inward on the neighborhoods these artists call home, looking at the past in an effort to better understand the present and honoring Arts in Bushwick's mission to bridge the divide between its new artist community and its longtime residents.»

While continuing our efforts in Upstate New York, in 2006 NM began presenting arts events in Brooklyn establishing the first apartment gallery in Bushwick.Now, NM serves the New York City Metro area with a focus on East New York, Brooklyn, our new local neighborhoNew York, in 2006 NM began presenting arts events in Brooklyn establishing the first apartment gallery in Bushwick.Now, NM serves the New York City Metro area with a focus on East New York, Brooklyn, our new local neighborhoNew York City Metro area with a focus on East New York, Brooklyn, our new local neighborhoNew York, Brooklyn, our new local neighborhonew local neighborhood.

The result of that effort is a 180 - page report released today called «CREATENYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers,» which aims to reorient the city's cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through their doors.

Lowe has initiated similarly arts - driven redevelopment projects in other cities, including the Watts House Project in Los Angeles, a post-Katrina rebuilding effort in New Orleans, and, most recently, a vibrant community market in a densely populated, immigrant neighborhood in North Dallas.

In an e-mail exchange following my visit to the neighborhood nuclear reactors, at Indian Point, Richard Brodsky, a longtime politician from the lower Hudson Valley who is now teaching at New York University, described his concerns about the agency, in relation to efforts by Entergy Corporation to relicense this planIn an e-mail exchange following my visit to the neighborhood nuclear reactors, at Indian Point, Richard Brodsky, a longtime politician from the lower Hudson Valley who is now teaching at New York University, described his concerns about the agency, in relation to efforts by Entergy Corporation to relicense this planin relation to efforts by Entergy Corporation to relicense this plant.

In an effort to address both of these challenges, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood.

In an effort to address both a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood in AshevillIn an effort to address both a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood in Ashevillin Asheville.

In an effort to further increase our brand recognition, we have increased our footprint with the addition of new offices, which helps put our signage into new neighborhoods.