Sentences with phrase «half of city residents»

«Meet People Who Don't Work in Tech,» reads the ad on Facebook by San Francisco - based startup UpOut, seeming to voice a collective desire of city residents.

The Chicago Park District unveiled plans Thursday to increase staff levels and extend hours at 22 of the district's summer day camps, the latest in a series of changes in the district, which has been criticized for not adapting to the needs of city residents.

Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse claimed that the recent arrest of a city resident who has called for his resignation was based on repeated phone calls and text messages the man allegedly sent to Morse's cousin.

Another strength is the makeup of the union: predominantly black and Latino, many of them city residents who will vote in Democratic primaries.

«Mayor de Blasio doesn't need to reach into the wallets of city residents to make that happen.»

47 % of city residents report de Blasio is attempting to rid the city of corruption while 32 % assert that he and his administration are adding to this problem in the Big Apple.

Malliotakis also touched on familiar criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, saying that he «ties the hands of law enforcement» and ignores the will of City residents in areas such as his plan to build 90 shelters for the homeless and his newly adopted goal of replacing Rikers Island with jails throughout the City.

39 % of city residents approve while 44 % disapprove.

«Nor should they be supplementing the commutation costs of city residents travelling to work at NYC - based businesses.

According to our latest NY1 - Baruch College City Poll, Cuomo still enjoys the approval of a majority of city residents — 54 percent, with just 24 percent disapproval.

Yet Marist recorded a mediocre 39 percent of city residents rating the mayor's job performance as good or excellent.

(CNN)- Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner may seek political redemption by running this year for New York City mayor, but a new poll of city residents suggests many of them may not be ready to forgive him.

There are a lot of views about what to do with the authority that provides housing to thousands of city residents well down the economic ladder.

A Niagara Falls man is facing manslaughter charges following the stabbing death of another city resident early this morning.

Nearly two - thirds of city residents believe the Staten Island grand jury should have brought charges against police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July death of Eric Garner, a new poll revealed.

Fifty - eight percent of city residents approve of the job the mayor is doing, while just 22 percent disapprove, and 20 percent were unsure.

For the sake of city residents, more action must be taken to address noisy clubs and bars.»

The poll found that 58 percent of city residents approve of the job the mayor is doing while 22 percent disapprove.

«Any way you cut the numbers — poverty rate, unemployment rate, actual number of city residents working — they lag behind where things stood prior to the Great Recession of 2008 — 09,» Heaney writes.

Almost half of city residents polled said the mayor «failed in his goal» to turn the city's public schools around.

«As evidence by the applause, the overwhelming majority of city residents see what I see.»

«The safety of New Yorkers is City Hall's top priority, and that includes the nearly 40 percent of city residents who are foreign born.

She, among others, has said the merger will minimize the voice of city residents.

After decades of not collecting fees or updating billing on more than a hundred special lighting districts, Syracuse is trying to update its regulation of ornamental street lights, but it means bills for thousands of city resident could skyrocket.

«On a house assessed at $ 100,000, the owner paid $ 58.80 in 2010 to cover the costs of city residents attending community colleges in other counties.

Sixty percent of city residents approve of how Cuomo is handling his job, compared to 42 percent who approve of de Blasio's job performance.

Roughly 40 percent of city residents between the ages of 50 and 64 have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement, even though a New Yorker would need to have saved $ 215,000 to live at poverty - level for a 15 - year retirement.

Today, De Blasio, who proposed raising the income tax of city residents making at least $ 500,000 to pay for pre-K and other school programs, said that Cuomo wasn't ruling it out at all.

The wealthiest 1 percent of city residents has 44 percent of all income in New York, nearly four times as much as they did just 30 years ago, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.

While job creation and total investment were important considerations when SIDA provided tax exemptions to projects like the two new Tops and expanded Nojaim's on the North, South, and Near West sides, respectively, perhaps what was more important was the immeasurable value of ensuring access to healthy and affordable food for thousands of city residents.

«We are not permitted to describe his findings in any way, even though this is about a public policy that has a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of city residents,» Gurian said of the report.

The mayor, for instance, is four - square against any deal that would jeopardize the water supply of city residents.

They've come under heavy criticism for taking a seat at the negotiating table with Gov. Andrew Cuomo while mainline Senate Democrats - who are represented by Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, a black woman, and represent the majority of city residents - are excluded.

Now, nine months after Hunter took charge, the Citizen Review Board is about to be reborn, strengthened by legislation that Hunter and a committee of city residents crafted during hours of meetings over the summer and fall.

But Metro - North officials said they expect riders who would use the proposed lines to be primarily of city residents who use public transportation, and would get to the new stations by subway, bus or bike.

I strongly believe that these services are another giant step forward towards providing better communication access for all of our city residents, and are an important part of our continued push for social and technological equality.»

The same trend holds true for Cuomo's overall job rating, with 50 percent of upstaters saying he is doing an excellent or good job and 59 percent of city residents saying the same.

Of these buildings, 1,724 or 53 percent were clustered in Manhattan north of 110th Street and the Bronx — disproportionately higher than the area's population (only one - fifth of city residents live in these neighborhoods).

Providence's African - American population is at an all - time high at 16 % of city residents, but its mostly concentrated in pockets in Mount Hope as well as the Upper and Lower South neighborhoods.

According to the 2010 Census, 3.4 % of city residents identify as black.

Though the city was legally obligated to operate a public museum, it could no longer afford to do so, and a survey of city residents» priorities ranked the existence of the museum, which opened in 1854, dead last.

There's a plan in place to do that, and hundreds of city residents are currently learning construction trades.

The demonstration follows the release today of a Broad - commissioned poll, showing that a large majority of city residents want more choices...

Before the national stalwarts of the charter school movement settled in a drain New Orleans, a group of city residents who resided on the West Bank of the Mississippi River — Algiers — formed a nonprofit that would eventually be the first organization to open schools.

The Challenge called on cities to do more than merely introduce new technologies onto city streets, requiring them to boldly envision new solutions that would change the face of transportation in our cities by closing the gap between rich and poor; capturing the needs of both young and old; and bridging the digital divide through smart design so that the future of transportation meets the needs of all city residents.

In today's links, we have a article about the Flint Public Library archiving the stories of city residents and the poisoned water crisis.

Since these agents are local, they understand the needs of city residents.

With only a 45 - minute drive to Houston, East Beach is definitely a favorite of city residents.

The casual, anthropomorphic metaphors of city residents are often confined to the internal organs of an imagined body: one either travels to the heart of a metropolis for its centre, or down, via an intestinal subway system, into its bowels.

Thousands of city residents either turn down group coverage or lack access to group health insurance.