Sentences with phrase «home borough»

A helicopter trip NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio took from Prospect Park in his old home borough of Brooklyn to an event in Queens in order to avoid traffic on the BQE has caused him a big PR headache.

Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile will likely be the candidate to take on Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan to replace former Congressman Michael Grimm, sources told the Observer — though some have dismissed the bid as virtually hopeless because Mr. Gentile's home borough makes up less than a third of the district.

Without a gym, they run along the Hudson River or up and down stairs in their building — an approach that worked so well that several students recently won prizes at a citywide track meet, and coach Tony Kunin brought home a borough - wide coaching award, Siena said.

«Doubtful, but if he does, he will take white voters from his new home borough, Manhattan — not the outer borough base he's alienated with his lewd conduct and sprawling Park ave digs — making it impossible for Quinn to avoid a runoff with de Blasio.»

He said he'll work to promote the Republican candidate in Trump's home borough of Queens, but is writing off Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.

He also supported the inappropriate and zealous use of stop of search, which has alienated communities, including in my home borough of Lambeth.

As Liz noted earlier, there is little love lost between Avella and Democrats in his home borough.

«Moving people away from their home boroughs means severing communities and making it more difficult for people to get to their jobs, their children's schools or even just visiting their friends.

As first reported by The New York Times this afternoon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is pitching his home borough of Brooklyn to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Malliotakis has the backing of the Republican committee on Staten Island, her home borough, and Massey has been endorsed by Queens County weeks ago.

Meanwhile others defended Catsimatidis, saying he was merely showing love for his home borough.

If Letitia James wins the attorney general seat, how would it change the political hierarchy in her home borough of Brooklyn?

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied a huge crowd in his home borough of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, with a speech that drew stark and sometimes scathing comparisons with his rival, Democratic front - runner Hillary Clinton.

We're still waiting to see an ad that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is reportedly cutting for the assemblyman (who just so happens to hail from the governor's home borough).

In a statement, Mr. Adams drew parallels between mass shootings across the nation and firearm crime in his home borough — suggesting they share a common root.

And we Bronxites have a lot of heart and soul to give in aid of our home borough — our efforts and advocacy are paying off in a big way in the form of these new apartments on Webster Avenue and many other developments and community improvements that New York State, thanks to Governor Cuomo, has financed and is making a reality.»

Parkside has a strong Queens connection (that's the governor's home borough, in case you had forgotten).

«I think a Republican's goal here is to make sure that Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn't become the next president of the United States,» the congressman said at an unrelated event in his home borough, even as he reiterated that Mr. Trump was not «everybody's first choice.»

The campaign's launch is coming in Brooklyn, Schumer's home borough.

A year later, Lindsay struggled mightily to win re-election, losing the Republican primary to John Marchi, a Staten Island state senator who made it his life's work to break his home borough away from the rest of the city.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also issued a statement, saying that he and Simanowitz «shared a love for our home borough of Queens and a belief in public service as a vehicle for positive change.»

That small wave of Masseymentum has faded beneath a wave of Malliomentum as Malliotakis received endorsements from her home borough Staten Island Republican Party and several elected Staten Island Republicans, as well as the Lhota endorsement.

The 11th Congressional District, which Grimm represents, is tilted toward the incumbent's home borough of Staten Island.

Still, the non-Brooklyn members of Ms. Mark - Viverito's team were equally instrumental and understood the value of Mr. de Blasio's home borough.

«Queens is my home borough and I will never stop fighting and advocating for all residents of Queens,» he said in a statement.

Unlike Koppell, Liu has the support of his home borough's Democratic organization — in fact, Queens party leaders recruited him to challenge Avella as a punishment for the senator's recent defection to the IDC.

«We shared a love for our home borough of Queens and a belief in public service as a vehicle for positive change,» said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who noted Simanowitz's religious faith as a guiding principle.

According to Quinnipiac, the mayor has a 49 percent approval rating in Kings County, home borough to both men.

Vallone, who wants the currently required full - service shelter in his home borough of Queens, disagreed.

Mr. Cabrera said two full pages were missing from the register at P.S. 310 in his home borough, preventing him and a number of other residents from casting their ballots normally.

The Daily News reported she was considering putting her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, the mayor's home borough.

Gov. Cuomo has thrown his support behind two Democrats from his home borough of Queens.

Although there is some division in his home borough, Blake has enjoyed support from prominent Midwestern party leaders.

«This is his home borough, everyone's here because they're «feelin'the Bern,» and I feel at the end of the day, Brooklynites will come out to support one of their own,» Brooklyn Councilman Rafael Espinal, the lone member of the City Council to endorse Mr. Sanders, told the Observer.

She won her home borough of Staten Island with 71 % of the vote, but did not break 35 % in any other borough.

A broad cross-section of Bronx officials, including Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz, stood beside Klein and lauded the work that he'd done to help his home borough.

«While NYC & Company deserves great credit for nurturing the tourism boom the city is enjoying, it only makes sense to turn at least some of the responsibility for promoting places to see and things to do outside of Manhattan over to the people who know their home boroughs better than anyone else,» Peralta said.

Peralta said that while an emphasis on Manhattan is understandable, his home borough has a lot to offer.

The Manhattan machine is a pale, pale, pale shadow of what it was in the Tammany era, but the boss losing his home borough is never a pretty sight, even if it is by fewer than 300 votes.

David Seifman's column the other day brought into the open some behind - the - scenes sniping between Scott Stringer and Christine Quinn, Democratic mayoral candidates who are both counting on drawing significant support from voters in their home borough of Manhattan.

«We are continuing to work to meet the needs of imminently homeless Staten Islanders and those who are currently housed in shelters in other boroughs and want to return to their home borough.»

Dean, who also founded the political action committee Democracy for American (DFA), will be headlining a fundraiser for de Blasio in the candidate's home borough of Brooklyn on July 18.

Unmentioned in media reports about former Bronx BP Adolfo Carrion's low Q - rating: He loses his home borough to an unnamed Democrat, 19 % -62 %.

Everyone I know in my home borough is thrilled to see major revitalization -LSB-...]

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, one of the most influential Democrats in his home borough of the Bronx and across New York State, today backed Assemblyman Michael Blake's bid for vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee — the latest sign formerly chilly County machine is warming to the second - term lawmaker's attempt at national influence.

But the three - term Assemblymember has struggled to raise her profile outside of her home borough of Staten Island and, somewhat relatedly, has not been able to raise especially significant funds for her campaign.

«I am happy to say, that in less than 2 weeks, we raised more from Staten Island residents than the campaigns of Bill de Blasio and Paul Massey raised in the past 3 months and is indicative of the support I have in my home borough,» Malliotakis said in a statement.

She was scheduled to hit eight events in her home borough of Manhattan on Friday, capped off by a rally at the landmark Stonewall Inn, the site of 1969 gay rights riots.

Everyone I know in my home borough is thrilled to see major revitalization efforts taking place, and everyone is eager to see this transformation include more great public school options.

If they don't have proof, parents would be directed to get their children tested in their home borough.