Sentences with phrase «into upstate cities»

The agenda for New York's six - month legislative session promises big debates over the cost of higher education, government ethics and Uber's proposal to expand into upstate cities like Buffalo and Syracuse, as well as a bill that would «Raise the Age» — therein ending the state's practice of prosecuting 16 - and 17 - year - olds as adults.

A consensus across the aisle appears to have been reached on increased funding for aging water systems, boosting tuition assistance, and allowing the spread of ride hailing services into upstate cities.

The ride sharing service Uber, which already operates in New York City, is making a big push to move into upstate cities like Syracuse, and Long Island.

Not exact matches

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

Stern and the undercover FBI agent led the politicians involved to believe that they were wealthy developers looking for to curry favor and would use their economic resources to help Smith bribe his way into City Hall in exchange for political favors that would pave the way for their upstate development projects.

The committees collection and distribution of money factor into a growing criminal case against New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, and upstate Senate races in 2014.

When the law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2019, Ulster will join New York City and 10 upstate counties that have boosted the legal age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21.

The need for a study arose after the county began examining New York City's plan to reopen 23 of its shuttered Queens wells that dip into the aquifer system under geographic Long Island during its upstate aqueduct - repair project, Martins said.

Furthermore, crime, cruddy schools, and ossified municipal governments continue to cause upstate cities to empty into the suburbs.

While they didn't go into detail about their plans for 2018, they both said upstate candidates face challenges in courting New York City voters.

It also allocates $ 303 million to complete a new tunnel linking New York City to its upstate drinking water reservoirs, $ 571 million for bridge maintenance and repair, $ 1 billion for roof repairs at the New York City Housing Authority, $ 478 million to bring more public ramps into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, $ 5.2 million for bullet - proof window inserts on NYPD patrol cars and $ 275 million to upgrade a police shooting range in the Bronx.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Calls for ethics legislation — varying measures have been approved virtually every year Cuomo has been governor — come as still more investigations are underway into the state's economic development programs in upstate New York and Mayor Bill de Blasio's political activities in New York City.

So you have no problems with upstate TEAPub Senators making DeBlasio and NYC into the bogeyman at campaign time while taking huge piles of NY City real estate / developer money to assure they screw over renters in the five boroughs?

And upstate, we just want to make sure it doesn't turn into a patronage mill in some of those cities.»

But even as Cuomo focused on upstate cities like Schenectady, he was drawn into a conversation over national issues swirling around President Donald Trump's administration.

Education advocates are once again urging the state Legislature and Cuomo to invest more money into pre-kindergarten program upstate, saying New York City is far outpacing the rest of the state in enrollment.

The ride sharing service Uber, which already operates in New York City, is making a big push to move into upstate and Long Island.

The city of Syracuse is ready to jump into a competition for more state funds meant to spark the upstate economy.

NY - 19, July 14... Vermont - native - turned - New York City - professor - turned Hudson - Valley weekender - turned - NY -19-congressional-candidate Professor Zephyr Teachout has dived headfirst into the transactional worlds of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and presumptive Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in order to enlist their financial and material support in her run for congress, the campaign of congressional candidate and 30 - plus year upstate resident John Faso today noted.

The proposed Senate maps also split several upstate counties into numerous districts, for example, Monroe County, which contains the City of Rochester, is split among four Senators, and St. Lawrence, Tompkins and Cayuga Counties are divided into three Senate districts The League of Women Voters called the new lines an «incumbency protection plan».

The candidate said the state can leverage the new money into roughly $ 12 billion in bonding over a seven - year period for upstate infrastructure and New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

The two ride - hailing services are now prohibited from operating outside the New York City area and have long wanted state permission to move into Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester and other upstate cities.

Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has another panel hearing arguments that the mayor and his closest political assistants deliberately circumvented campaign finance laws in their failed 2014 effort to flip the State Senate to the Democrats, by directing donors (many of whom also had business before the city) to funnel money into upstate party committees instead of into candidates» individual campaign accounts — thus bypassing state contribution caps.

Even though, as Cuomo focused on upstate cities like Schenectady, he was drawn into a conversation over national issues swirling around President Donald Trump's administration.

The federal proceedings concern whether the administration doled out «pay - to - play» favors to big donors that dumped money into de Blasio's now - defunct «shadow government» nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York — Vance's case concerns allegations the mayor sought to circumvent state contribution limits in his failed bid to turn the State Senate Democratic, by having people seeking city business funnel unlimited cash into upstate county committees instead of into candidates» campaign accounts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to have gained the upper hand and some new allies in his policy skirmish with New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio over how to fund pre-kindergarten, as the fight threatens to turn into an upstate downstate split.

«As we read today's Quinnipiac poll, more upstate New Yorkers support hydraulic fracturing; others will point to the overall numbers that are heavily skewed by New York City voters who enjoy the benefits of cheap natural gas but have bought into the fear tactics by so - called activists,» said the trade group's executive director, Karen Moreau.

Then there are the policies that helped turn upstate cities into drug thug central and the ever popular (not) taxes taxes taxes.

Aside from allowing the Angulos to retell, in words and home videos, the story of their long captivity and gradual, blinking emergence into the world, Moselle tags along with them on various field trips to explore the city and points outside, including a visit to Coney Island, an apple orchard upstate, and their first movie in an honest - to - God theater: David O. Russell's The Fighter at the Village East Cinemas.

The story centers on two small - town yokels from upstate New York, tricked into opening a barbershop in the big city that a gangster could use as a front for his speakeasy.

In 2007 my wife, Erin, and I moved out of New York City and into a little house upstate about an hour and a half outside the cCity and into a little house upstate about an hour and a half outside the citycity.

Landscape entered into Berthot's painting following his move from New York City to upstate New York in 1996.