Sentences with phrase «home borough of»
He says he'll work to promote the Republican candidate in Trump's home borough of Queens, but is writing off Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
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In fact, Teachout has had mirror career to Sanders in multiple ways: born in Vermont, she moved to Sanders» home borough of Brooklyn and started her political career with a longshot attempt at statewide office.
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.
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.
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.
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.
She won her home borough of Staten Island with 71 % of the vote, but did not break 35 % in any other 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.
«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.
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.»
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.
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.
He also supported the inappropriate and zealous use of stop of search, which has alienated communities, including in my home borough of Lambeth.
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(Islington is the spiritual home of Britain's «chattering classes», a borough of London studded with multi-million dollar houses owned by well - to - do Labour MPs).
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At the same time, Brooklyn is evolving from a borough of local businesses to a home of national companies like Etsy, Kickstarter and Vice Media, with an emphasis on technology.
«Before I had a child, I would think all day about what I wanted to cook, read cookbooks, go to three different specialty markets in different boroughs and the farmer's market, and then go home and put on perfect, beautiful music and pour a glass of wine before I started chopping vegetables,» she recalls, speaking at a mile a minute.
Just a mile east of Hampstead, the neighbouring borough of Islington appears to have stolen a march on the home of the Fabians.
Conservative councillors have joined the chorus of outrage at anti-immigrant vans, which have been driven around London boroughs telling illegal immigrants to «go home».
It circled the Home Office and Westminster this morning before heading to Kensal Green and Walthamstow, two of the boroughs targeted for the pilot scheme last month.
An advocacy group for city commuters awarded its first «Worst Commute of the Week» award to a librarian from the borough of Queens for her story of an agonizing two - hour wait in a tunnel one stop from her home after skipping a restroom visit before leaving work.
For - hire vehicles including app - based services such as Uber would also have to pay a surcharge — a proposal that got mixed reviews from Queens pols whose borough is home to the city's largest share of cabbies.
Malliotakis has the backing of the Republican committee on Staten Island, her home borough, and Massey has been endorsed by Queens County weeks ago.
And yet the newly destroyed flat will become one of more than 500 homes in the borough declared «void» - left empty in the long term, comprehensively destroyed on the inside to prevent anyone from moving in.
The only clue about who might be behind STGG comes from a request for a zoning permit it submitted to Brooklyn borough hall in 2015, which noted that the sole tenant of the property STGG owns is based out of is Prime Home Health Services.
When he started exploring options closer to his home, Kessler noticed the northern borough — no longer known solely for hometown fan favorites: Yankee Stadium, the zoo and the botanical garden — offered a great, affordable work neighborhood with diverse dining options, too... He's not alone in discovering the attraction of The Bronx.
«Right now, the borough president is focused on being borough president and serving the needs of the 1.4 million people who call The Bronx their home,» DeSio said.
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.»
She said it was imperative that the city brought the plows to clear streets that were used by the borough's bus lines because no one could get their cars out of their homes.
But he would face a very tough challenger in Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan, who developed a national profile after the a grand jury did not indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner but who remains popular in Staten Island, a borough home to many cops and law - and - order types.
«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 Home Office's attitude to immigration has noticeably hardened recently, with tweets of immigration raids, spot checks by UK Border Agency staff and a mobile van telling illegal immigrants in certain boroughs of London to «go home&raqHome Office's attitude to immigration has noticeably hardened recently, with tweets of immigration raids, spot checks by UK Border Agency staff and a mobile van telling illegal immigrants in certain boroughs of London to «go home&raqhome».
Brenker spoke to the mayor, McCray and Staten Island Borough President James Oddo at his family's home in New Springville before officials announced a series of initiatives to combat opioid misuse deaths in all five boroughs.
«Staten Island is a borough that has a very high percentage of home ownership,» Borough President James Oddo, a Republican, said after de Blasio's second State of the City address.
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.
«Our latest capital funding allocation shows our continued commitment to maintaining and building affordable housing, a promise I have strived to keep since the first day that I became borough president,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «This year's allocations will help a wide range of individuals find and keep an affordable home, right here in The Bronx.
QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz's Hurricane Relief Task Force today reviewed the progress of the work thus far in Queens by the City's «NYC Build it Back» Program, which is dedicated to assisting homeowners, landlords and tenants in the five boroughs whose homes and properties were damaged by Hurricane Sandy of October 2012.
«The mayor has invested nearly $ 5 million a year to deliver 24/7 half - hour Staten Island ferry service, added over $ 240 million to improve road conditions, brought faster plowing to Staten Island residential streets, and improved the Build it Back program so residents are finally receiving checks and rebuilding their homes — showing time and again that he is committed to improving the lives of Staten Islanders and giving the borough the attention it deserves,» she said.
Lawmakers and community members say they have been told that the state under Cuomo will be unveiling a number of «enhanced areas» in the next few weeks where homeowners will be able to apply for a buyout worth 100 percent of their homes pre-storm value, with a five percent incentive if they move within their borough.
In the end, his margins were particularly high in Erie County, where his running mate Kathy Hochul has her home base, and in the outer boroughs of New York City, where he had backing from the county organizations.
At 10 a.m., a new report will show black and Latino homeowners in the outer NYC boroughs remain in the grips of the foreclosure crisis because the value of their homes is less than the outstanding balance on their mortgages; Council members will call on the city to use eminent domain to seize «toxic» mortgage and modify them, City Hall steps, Manhattan.
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.
Prior to the Democratic convention in Rye, Rice landed the support of Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez (although both Sen. Eric Schneiderman and, more recently, Sean Coffey, have made in - roads into the borough), and also received nods from her home county organization (headed by state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs) and the neighboring Suffolk County Democrats, too.
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.
«Our goal will be to keep residents in the boroughs they called home when possible, so that breadwinners do not lose jobs, children do not have to switch schools or experience long commutes and people can also be close to their medical needs and preferred places of worship,» the plan says.
Among the objections is the fact that just one in 10 Staten Islanders is part of the «Close to Home» program, meaning primarily teen offenders from other boroughs would be sent here.
What is your position on the development of supported apartments / homes for people with disabled in your borough?
Bill D'Ambrosio, the first vice chair of the Staten Island GOP, accused Domenic Recchia of seeking to build low - income housing throughout the single - family home - dominated borough in a fund - raising pitch to Grimm supporters.
NYC & Co., the city's tourism arm, and the City Clerk's office conducted a survey of more than 1,700 same - sex couples, finding that since the Marriage Equality Act went into effect in July 2011, 67 percent of gay couples held wedding receptions at restaurants, homes or catering halls in the five boroughs.
The borough president also discussed the need to build more affordable and permanent supportive housing as a means to prevent homelessness, and threw his support behind Queens Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi's Home Stability Support plan, which would give rent subsidies to those in danger of losing their homes.