Sentences with phrase «former housing projects»
He's turned vacant homes into cultural spaces and transformed a former housing project into a mixed - income residential and arts hub.
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John Milkovisch was a retiree who needed a project, and in 1968 the former upholsterer chose an ambitious one — a Beer Can House.
Speaking of hiring, Apple recently poached Paul Deneve, the former CEO of fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, as a vice president working on «special projects.»
«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.
Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.
A court hearing this week will determine whether or not thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students will have their student loan debt erased.The class - action lawsuit was filed in California by the Project on Predatory Student Lending and by the Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, USA Today reported.
«[Project C.O.R.E.] has no value unless we learn how to balance physical development with human capital development,» says Danise Jones - Dorsey, a longtime Fells Point resident, former Baltimore Housing Authority official, and current member of the North East Housing Initiative land trust.
Similarly, Monsignor Vincent Cooke, former administrator of the Catholic Charities of Chicago, said some years ago: «No public housing project, let alone a private one, should accept too many families who receive public assistance.
The Albany Housing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. MarioHousing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. Mariohousing czar under Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Through his annual awards to regional economic development councils, Cuomo has also approved state grants of about $ 4 million to COR to demolish the former Kennedy Square housing project in Syracuse and about $ 4 million to COR to redevelop the former Mercy Hospital site in Watertown.
In 2015, Savo Brothers developers — under the name Mount Builders LLC — sued Oddo after he took to the dictionary for revenge over the project at the former Jesuit retreat house.
The former rookie cop convicted in the 2014 shooting death of an unarmed man in a housing - project stairwell dodged prison Tuesday — as his victim's angry kin warned that «justice...
Sean Ryan [email protected] Milwaukee could stymie an affordable housing project at the Hide House if the city awards the former tannery in Bay View historic status.
A Brooklyn judge ruled on Thursday that the manslaughter conviction of Peter Liang — the former NYPD officer who accidentally shot un unarmed Akai Gurley in a public housing project...
A top official in the Staten Island GOP blasted out a fund - raising email last week that accused Mr. Recchia, a former Brooklyn councilman, of counting on minority - heavy votes in Brooklyn «housing projects» to win in the fall.
From the start, the case of Peter Liang, a former Brooklyn police officer convicted in February of manslaughter for the shooting of Akai Gurley in a housing project stairwell, has seen its share of twists and turns.
Though most of the past and current University Hill housing projects started during former Mayor Stephanie Miner's time in office, SIDA approved tax breaks for mixed - use apartment complexes — such as the luxury Copper Beech Commons project in 2011 — while Walsh was executive director of the agency.
They also sought banking records of Karen Murphy, who sat on the board of a SUNY - affiliated nonprofit that financed some of the projects, as well as those of her husband, William Eimicke, a Columbia University professor, consultant to one of the Syracuse projects in question and former housing official under Mario Cuomo.
In the email, D'Ambrosio wrote that Recchia, a Democrat and former Coney Island councilman, will have to rely on votes from «Brooklyn housing projects» in order to win the election.
Three aldermen are pushing for a new vote on a zoning change for a proposed supportive housing project at site of the former city alms house.
Former NYPD officer Peter Liang was sentenced to probation by a Brooklyn judge for shooting an unarmed black man in a public housing project stairwell in 2014 in a ruling expected to set off denunciations from police critics.
Now that former NYPD Officer Peter Liang has avoided prison for fatally shooting Akai Gurley, questions turn to the broken elevator, broken lights and police practice in a Brooklyn public housing project that made the deadly episode possible.
RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.
Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.
Anthony DeFiglio, a former Troy Housing Authority clerk, told State Police two years ago that McInerney had asked him in August 2009 to help collect absentee ballot applications from people in the Griswold Heights housing pHousing Authority clerk, told State Police two years ago that McInerney had asked him in August 2009 to help collect absentee ballot applications from people in the Griswold Heights housing phousing project.
The SoHo offices of the Atlantic Development Group, which has worked on several Bronx housing projects and donated thousands of dollars to former Bronx B.P. Adolfo Carrion (as well as several other borough officials), was raided yesterday morning as part of a probe by the city's Department of Investigation.
McMahon confirmed rumors that have swirled around Syracuse for more than a week, that Mahoney's administration, Cuomo's office and Syracuse University have discussed plans to build a stadium on the site of the former Kennedy Square housing project between University Hill and the heart of downtown.
He served as a housing czar under former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and as a paid consultant to COR Development, the Central New York real estate firm whose top executives allegedly bribed Percoco for his help with their state - funded projects.
But, what made the nearly $ 5 million project — slated for a former brownfield site along Kensington Avenue — was the fact it was the first application to the county agency since a more stringent set of requirements governing senior housing developments was approved this past summer.
Consultant Irwin Raij, a sports industry lawyer who is working for SU to look at the possibility of developing a new sports arena near the site of the former Kennedy Square housing project, met with Miner for about half an hour, said Carroll, who did not attend but was briefed later by the mayor.
The Lofts at Harmony Mills West in its final phase as a project to turn former textile mills into housing Thursday Jan. 16, 2014, in Cohoes, NY.
The revitalization of the borough continues through various development and redevelopment projects: York Studios in Soundview, the Kingsbridge National Ice Center, the transformation of the former Bronx General Post Office by Youngwoo Associates, and recreation and affordable housing on waterfront along the Harlem River in Mott Haven.
The 2011 drawing shows a three blocks - long stadium adjacent to the state - owned former public housing project site, sprawled across several parcels including a city - owned park and some private properties.
Its efforts on this project were led by Lori Harris, who heads up the company's Albany efforts, and herself is a former state governmental housing official.
Her close relationship with the mayor was a break with the political tradition she grew up in ---- as head of both the Housing Justice Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, as a protégé of Duane, who was an outspoken critic of Giuliani while on the Council, and as a top deputy to former Speaker Gifford Miller, who often adopted a confrontational approach toward Bloomberg.
In the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, the mayor has yet to reach an agreement with Councilman Brad Lander on a large - scale project that would include some rent - regulated housing and two luxury condo towers at the site of the former Long Island College Hospital.
David Smith - The former President of Upstate Medical University, who also acquired 400 units in two low - income housing projects in Presidential Plaza for Upstate students and doctors, was forced to resigned in 2013 for padding his over $ 600,000 state salary with $ 350,000 from outside medical companies without permission of the state.
The state transferred the property, former home of the Kennedy Square public housing project, to the university in 2009.
It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.
Mayor Byron Brown joked that Buffalo should be renamed «Ribbon - cutting City» as he joined others to dedicate a newly - completed affordable housing project inside a former school building.
This is the second project by CB Emmanuel involving the conversion of a former schoolhouse into affordable housing.
A House of Representatives panel had in March asked the EFCC and the Code of Conduct Bureau to investigate Anyim and a former FCT Minister, Bala Mohammed, over the Centenary City project.
The project began when geographer Clio Andris, a former Santa Fe Institute postdoctoral fellow now at Pennsylvania State University, wondered whether the interwoven House districts created by gerrymandering might actually foster cooperation.
In addition to the former «Full House» star himself getting a behind - the - scenes credit, Dan Fogelman («Galavant,» «The Neighbors») will also exec produce the project.
In a former program at Clark Atlanta University, prospective teachers, along with social work students, had the option of living in housing projects with the children and families whom they would one day serve.
... is typical of the ambitious former physics teacher who emigrated from Haiti as a boy, used the U.S. education system to drag himself up by the bootstraps from housing project poverty, then applied the same zeal to reforming the system that helped him, say friends and enemies alike in this upstate New York city of 210,000.
I was glad to read your comments on the faux - Education Equality Project (EEP), now headed by New York City's Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and the Reverend Al Sharpton, with the assistance of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Karega is a former Charter Schools Director with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office; founded and served as Director of the Indianapolis affiliate of Stand for Children, a national educational advocacy nonprofit; and was on the leadership team of Indiana University's Equity Project, housed at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy.
A former political organizer - he worked for Walter Mondale's failed presidential campaign and the star - crossed movement to draft Mario Cuomo for a White House bid - he runs Project Appleseed, a nonprofit group that helps parents shed their timid, «teachers know best» attitudes and dive into the nitty - gritty of schools and education policy.
WEST BLOOMFIELD — One new senior living community is on track to occupy a former elementary school, and a second senior housing project may be reworked for another former school site in the township.