Sentences with phrase «for urban parks»

To rethink the way streets are used, call attention to the need for urban parks, and improve the quality of urban human habitat... at least until the meter runs out!

The three - row XT7 will come with Escalade - like levels of luxury and bling on a more comfortable unibody platform and in a size more manageable for urban parking garages.

I really missed the rearview camera and surround - view camera options (both available for the X5 but not included on this example), as the sonar park distance sensors were barely adequate for urban parking.

Despite being slightly shorter than its predecessor (a good thing for urban parking) at 4439 mm -LRB--15 mm) the X1 feels bigger inside.

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It eventually purchased the facility and uses the property for the warehouse as well as truck parking and the future site of a green house that will house an organic certified hydroponic urban farm, Hannigan says.

Every detail of Loews Regency is focused on enticing today's sophisticated, urban traveler, by offering them warm, personalized service and the benefit of the perfect Park Avenue location for a true New York experience.»

It doesn't look all that different from any other grouping of youth ball fields, but, true to Haley's original vision, the park serves as an urban oasis for young athletes.

Imagine being able to learn to ride a bike for almost three miles without having to watch for vehicular traffic,» Jamie R. Simone, program director, Urban Parks Program at the Trust for Public Land in Chicago.

Marquette Park Lagoon has also been the best body of water for urban anglers to catch largemouth bass, big bluegill, carp, warmouths — and even northern pike, taken every year on live bait or artificials.

Oak Park has 1.6 acres of park for every 10,000 citizens, John Mac Manus, owner of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the boPark has 1.6 acres of park for every 10,000 citizens, John Mac Manus, owner of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the bopark for every 10,000 citizens, John Mac Manus, owner of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the board.

Over the last month, urban - design contractor Altamanu evaluated 16 Park District parks — all but the district's playground spaces for young children — based on criteria the board had developed.

The village has 1.6 acres of park space for every 10,000 residents — far short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the bopark space for every 10,000 residents — far short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the boPark Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the board.

Saving the beaches helped protect the shoreline, said Patrick Reardon, a historian of Chicago and former Tribune urban affairs writer who wrote a report for Friends of the Parks in 2009 on the four miles of lakefront that were still privately owned.

«Urban dwellers, to go get gardening know - how, have to go to the suburbs,» said Douglas Hoerr, a member of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance board and the landscape architect for the new garden.

The Park District has received a $ 2 million state grant for the urban garden.

The Chicago Park District is planning to dig up its front yard for an open - air garden show in Grant Park in May where area landscape architects, nurseries and institutions can demonstrate techniques for urban gardeners and spread Chicago's reputation as a green city.

Inglesina Trilogy Stroller Review stroller is of parents who lives urban life style & used to go for shopping, city walk or park walk.

An idea for future improvements would be to swap the foot parking brake with the urban jungle's hand brake.

Like the San Francisco Waldorf School and Golden Bridges, Berkeley Rose is an urban school and as such utilizes nearby parks for many of its outdoor periods in kindergarten through grades.

6 - inch EVA tires are meant for urban strolling or going through park terrain.

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The modern and stylish dash stroller is beautifully tailored for urban adventures in cities and parks.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

But even as the town gropes toward a peaceful coexistence between the entrenched artistic underground and the thrill - seeking newcomers, the vintage, urban picture - book luster of Wicker Park continues to shine on, undisturbed, through the winter solstice, thanks in part to the Christmas lights that adorn a majority of the three - flats until early spring; these semipermanent, luminous fixtures work as a convenient simile for the spark that ignites the inexhaustible pride of those who come to dwell in the hood.

The Broome County Urban League will also be dedicating the basketball court at Columbus Park to King Rice in honor of all that he has done for the Urban League and the Binghamton community.

Join the NYC Urban Park Rangers and fellow hiking enthusiasts for a Nature Exploration Adventure through Inwood Hill Park on Wed., Apr. 27th.

But many other urban borders have been imposed and are powerful: for example in Belfast the so - called «peacelines» even divide some parks between Catholic and Protestant areas.

The Paterson administration said linking the parks measure with the EPF — which pays for initiatives such as buying land for preservation, plus water cleanup efforts, urban forestry and recycling — was the only way to realize the savings needed to help balance the $ 9.2 billion deficit.

A number of the targeted parks are tourism engines in financially strapped rural areas or the only places for outdoor recreation near urban ones.

A committee vote will take place next month on a set of principles for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban renewal Area.

When I ask him for some better - qualified options, he mentions New York City comptroller Scott Stringer, former Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary Shaun Donovan, and «most people in this park.»

The company also suggests the placing of strategic park and ride sites to improve urban mobility in the short term and for the potential to be explored of switching freight to autonomous night time operation.

Although Hawkins's running mate, Gloria Mattera, is from Park Slope and once ran against Marty Markowitz for borough president, the bulk of the New York Green Party membership is from upstate, with concentrations in urban areas.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Each habitat park is unique in its setting, providing a natural sanctuary for native plants and animals to thrive among urban surroundings.

The current framework for developing recharging points looks to focus on urban centres, supermarkets, retail centres and car parks.

Tickets are $ 10 and include a haunted walk and music from 7 to 10 p.m. Safe and secure Halloween fun for the entire family Join the Urban Park Rangers to Celebrate Samhain this Saturday (Oct. 31) with a nature walk through the woods at Van Cortlandt Park.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Agencies receiving Year - Round funding in 2014 include: Access of WNY, Inc. ($ 10,000), African Cultural Center of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 8,500), Be-A-Friend Program, Inc. (Big Brothers Big Sisters)($ 7,500), Blossom Garden Friends School ($ 3,000), Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo, Inc. ($ 7,500), Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys & Girls Club of Northtowns of WNY, Inc. ($ 12,500), Boys & Girls Club of Orchard Park, Inc. ($ 5,000), Boys and Girls Club East Aurora, Inc. ($ 15,000), Buffalo Urban League, Inc. ($ 12,500), Canisius College ($ 5,000), Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Inc. ($ 5,500), Child and Family Services of Erie County (Haven House)($ 10,000), Compeer West, Inc. ($ 10,000), Computers for Children, Inc. ($ 7,500), Cradle Beach Camp, Inc. ($ 12,500), Daemen College ($ 10,000), Elim Community Corporation ($ 5,000), Erie Regional Housing Dev.

Immediately after the vote, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver released a statement backing the proposal for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.

On Monday, a Community Board 3 committee may vote on guidelines for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area [SPURA]-- the long - derelict blocks on Delancey, Broome, and Grand at the lip of the Williamsburg Bridge.

The following opinion piece was written by Brett Leitner, founder of SHARE, a neighborhood organization advocating for the redevelopment of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area:

Next Monday, Community Board 3's land use committee will meet to vote on proposed guidelines for the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.

The Times just posted a lengthy article examining the roles of Sheldon Silver and former Met Council head William Rapfogel in stopping redevelopment of the Seward Park urban renewal site for decades.

Tonight, Community Board 3 unanimously supported guidelines for the development of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA).

After 43 years of bitter battles over the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, Community Board 3's land use committee approved a set of planning guidelines tonight for the 7 - acre parcel next to the Williamsburg Bridge.

«I applaud the SPURA Development Task Force for reaching a consensus on the proposed guidelines for the development of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA).

Blatt was a member of the board's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA) task force, which helped shape an unprecedented community - driven development plan for the sprawling Lower East Side lots.

In order for eminent domain to be used for the Park South Plan, the Albany Common Council was required to pass an ordinance designating the neighborhood an urban renewal area.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.