Sentences with phrase «income neighborhoods of the city»

Ms. Hayre has offered to pay for the college education of 119 elementary students from two schools in low - income neighborhoods of the city.

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Incomes in some of the area's neighborhoods have traditionally lagged far behind the city's average.

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

Their study, published in the April 18th issue of The Lancet, focused on the incidence of rotavirus infection (both with and without symptoms) in a group of 200 infants born in a low - income neighborhood of Mexico City.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

He'd also like to see an end to vacancy decontrol and a revamp of the 421 - a program that takes the neighborhood Area Median Income into consideration, as opposed to the current system that includes New York City and the wealthier areas of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties.

Shephard said that Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to greatly expand the city's number of affordable housing units provides an opportunity for developers to incorporate solar and clean energy into lower - income neighborhoods.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was «gratified» by the «commitment to sustainability on a borough level and [having] facilities moving into diverse neighborhoods, just not low - income neighborhoods of color.»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn had heralded the restoration of funding for the East 91st Street transfer station and the rest of the waste plan, applauding the city's «commitment to sustainability on a borough level and [having] facilities moving into diverse neighborhoods, just not low - income neighborhoods of color.&raCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn had heralded the restoration of funding for the East 91st Street transfer station and the rest of the waste plan, applauding the city's «commitment to sustainability on a borough level and [having] facilities moving into diverse neighborhoods, just not low - income neighborhoods of color.&racity's «commitment to sustainability on a borough level and [having] facilities moving into diverse neighborhoods, just not low - income neighborhoods of color.»

City Council Speaker Quinn disagreed and said the current placement of transfer stations is unfair to residents of low income neighborhoods.

Bronx, NY - New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been, Settlement Housing Fund President Alexa Sewell celebrated the start of construction of a mixed - income 11 - story complex at 1561 Walton Avenue in the Mt. Eden neighborhood of the Bronx.

To de Blasio, the BQX is not only a project to propel low - income and working - class residents forward as their waterfront neighborhoods continue to develop, but an investment in the future of the city.

Also at 11 a.m., struggling small businesses owners from low - income neighborhoods of NYC join leaders and members of Real Affordability for All in opposing de Blasio's housing and rezoning plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Backers of the project have said it would distribute the city's garbage more evenly, rather than in predominantly low - income neighborhoods.

«Though the bike sharing program has been a runaway success in some parts of the city, it has also left the outer boroughs and many low - income neighborhoods significantly underrepresented,» said Council Member Mark Levine, in a press release.

The boards, which are appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, have criticized the rezoning plans as not providing enough housing that is affordable to the actual income levels of people in the neighborhoods and for fear that it would spark more gentrification and overcrowding.

In the second of a two - part series, Investigative Post reports on limited progress being made by local government officials to address lead poisoning in low - income neighborhoods on the city's East and West Side.

NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the City of Syracuse, elected officials, and partners celebrated the ribbon cutting of Salina Crossing, a mixed - used development that has created 49 modern, safe and affordable housing units for low - income households and nearly 6,000 square feet of commercial space to revitalize two neighborhoods connected by Salina Street, a main thoroughfare that spans the Northside and Southside of Syracuse.

«Eighth hundred thousand stops at the height of the stops, concentrated almost exclusively in lower - income neighborhoods of color, targeting African - American, Caribbean - American and Latino men is an extreme focus on one part of our city.»

But as the city's economy recovered, legislators tinkered with the regulations, requiring developers in popular neighborhoods to set aside 20 percent of their apartments for low - and moderate - income tenants in order for the building to qualify for the tax break.

The actual median income of many New York City neighborhoods, like East New York and East Harlem, is significantly lower than the figure that includes suburban counties.

As summer approaches, the city of Syracuse is again cracking down on a sector that's caused trouble in low - income neighborhoods in the past, corner stores.

A practice of only placing affordable housing in low - income neighborhoods, combined with the fact that few landlords outside those blocks are willing to accept housing vouchers, has resulted in Syracuse being one of the most segregated cities in the country, according to a report by CNY Fair Housing.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who represents the district where most of the buildings would be located, argued for housing to meet the needs of lower - income constituents in the neighborhood.

At Success Academy Charter Schools, for example, students who are mainly black and Latino, and who are from many of the city's lowest - income neighborhoods, tested in the top 1 % in math and 3 % in English of all schools in New York State last year.

The neighborhoods have recently outperformed other areas of the city in terms of job and business growth, but still maintain higher rates of unemployment and lower average income than the citywide average, the report found.

«There's a crisis taking place in cities and towns and neighborhoods throughout New York State,» said Stewart Cousins who says its effecting New Yorkers of all «backgrounds, races and income levels».

Demand the city change the way it defines affordable by basing it on neighborhood median income instead of the median income for the entire metropolitan region.

The current metric incorporates the wages not just of residents of New York City, but of suburban Rockland and Westchester counties, which Mr. Wright argued skews the statistic unfairly upward in low - income neighborhoods.

Comrie said that as the LPC extends its reach into lower - income neighborhoods, the city needs to be clear upfront about what the costs of designating and maintaining a landmark will be.

«The city, through its Housing Opportunities Strategy, will be initiating a variety of new programs and initiatives to focus on affordable housing and building mixed - income neighborhoods throughout the City of Buffalo,» Brown scity, through its Housing Opportunities Strategy, will be initiating a variety of new programs and initiatives to focus on affordable housing and building mixed - income neighborhoods throughout the City of Buffalo,» Brown sCity of Buffalo,» Brown said.

That incoming object will almost certainly not be the world - ender of Hollywood epics; it will likely be something the size of the Trump Taj Mahal, large enough to flatten a city or a neighborhood.

The opposite hand, moving like the incoming tide, demonstrates how the seas will eventually rise, potentially bringing the coastline of South Florida closer to Miami's historically black neighborhoods — properties like his investments in Liberty City that sit on comparatively higher ground.

The miniseries «centers on Nick Wasicsko, the young mayor of a midsize American city who is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low - income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town.

Many large cities and their systems of neighborhood public schools are extensively segregated by income.

When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

The school is open to any child in New York City, but most of WHEELS» 806 students come from Washington Heights, the predominantly low - income, Latino neighborhood around the school.

The Seventh Annual Academic Olympiad Comes to HGSE When the late Max Kargman started developing affordable housing in the 1960s, his ideas about how it should look were informed by his own humble beginnings as the son of Russian immigrants growing up in a low - income, inner - city neighborhood.

Brinig and Garnett assume Catholic schools» effectiveness with lower - income inner - city children and take up a different story: the effect of school closures on the quality of the social life in their surrounding neighborhoods.

Middle - income neighborhoods are showing the greatest gains in registration, while enrollments have actually fallen in nineteen of the city's thirty - four poorest zip codes.

One of New York City's neighborhood school districts has eliminated its attendance zones for junior - high schools and will require incoming seventh graders to choose which schools they will attend in September.

There can be little doubt that education shortcomings in the United States spread well beyond the corridors of the inner city or the confines of low - income neighborhoods where many parents lack a high school diploma.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

The two BASIS charter schools in San Antonio, along with a Great Hearts Academies charter, are part of an effort to lure top charter schools into the city, and not just into the low - income neighborhoods where charters are traditionally found.

Students explore the impact of a plan to locate a new industry in a low - income neighborhood, then take on the roles of community members, business executives, and city officials as they advocate for and against building a power plant in a low - income minority neighborhood.

The most heavily flooded neighborhoods were (not coincidentally) those where family incomes were lowest, and people in these neighborhoods returned at much lower rates than people who lived in other parts of the city.

The neighborhoods served by the schools were experiencing an influx of low - income families from the adjacent city.

Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the city's 32 school districts representing children zoned for 576 different elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.

Years ago, a science teacher at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out why.

Lower - income residents in certain neighborhoods feel the painful economic impact of rapid migration back to cities.