Sentences with phrase «local community board»

I make sure to go to local community board meetings and others around the district so I can keep my pulse on the concerns of the district.
He's reached out to all local elected officials, who have said they will attend, as well as local community boards and civic groups to spread the word.
The concept that a member is getting their services through their own local community board is emphasized with their board's own direct home page.
The school is governed by the Cherokee Charter Academy, Inc., which consists of local community board members: Danny Dukes, Kim Cochran, Susan Imrie, Wendy Prichard, Josh Fuder and Mark Johnson.
With upward of 90 percent of the vote in, Cancel appears to have placed next - to - last in today's six - way Democratic primary, drawing fewer than 1,000 votes beating out only local community board chairwoman Gigi Li, an attache of Chinatown Councilwoman Margaret Chin.
Burden's proposal will now be reviewed by local community boards 2, 6 and 7 and Borough President Marty Markowitz's office.
While neighborhood residents and preservationists are up in arms over the planned construction of a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, an aggressive lobbyist effort by Major League Soccer is working the system by targeting everyone from local Community Boards right up to Mayor Bloomberg himself.
A Bronx local community board approved the rezoning of a massive site on the Harlem river, potentially paving the way for a 1000 - unit complex to be built.
At 10:30 a.m., Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Bronx Veteran Advisory Council host meeting to educate and update local community boards and elected officials on veterans» resources in The Bronx and across the city, 1530 Hutchinson River Parkway, the Bronx.
Besides Abbate, rumored Democratic candidates include local district leader Kevin Peter Carroll, local community board district manager Josephine Beckmann and Arab - American activist Linda Sarsour.
Okay, so based on that last remark, it's a little bit about Baez, who was beat up continually for her lack of presence at not only City Council meetings, but also local community board meetings.
District leaders John Ruiz and Rev. Al Taylor and activist Joyce Johnson signed the missive, which accused Wright of using his position to attempt to deliver the seat that formerly belonged to now - Councilman Bill Perkins to his favored candidate, local community board chairman Brian Benjamin.
An extensive borough - and community - based review of the proposals is underway, with varying results thus far as local community boards vote in non-determinative polls.
The county machine, headed by Congressman Joseph Crowley, today announced it was backing local community board chairwoman Adrienne Adams in her bid to unseat Mr. Sanders in the September Democratic primary.
But the combined political muscle and fundraising proved insufficient to lift local community board chairwoman Adrienne Adams over Sanders in the September primary.
She's also committed to pushing to make the Franklin Avenue subway station fully accessible, and to encouraging more diversity and youth participation on local Community Boards.
While the de Blasio administration hopes to implement Mandatory Inclusionary Housing by the summer, the proposal has been met with resistance by local community boards and politicians across the boroughs.
Decisions about street co-namings are up to the City Council, but the advisory opinions from local community boards are important.
As DNAinfo first reported, the site is intended to be an online forum for residents to connect and discuss local issues without having to schlep to local community board meetings.
Local community board member Charles Cooper has also professed his hope to succeed Dickens, and he enjoys some backing from clergy.
One is businessman Don Lee, the other is local community board chairwoman Gigi Li, a close associate of Chinatown Councilwoman Margaret Chin.
According to Stringer's office, the plan was developed in partnership with State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh as well as local community boards and community - based groups, which have been working on it since 2010.
Maybe we need to zero out his budget and give it to the local community boards to provide services to New Yorkers.
Assemblywoman Diane Richardson, a Brooklyn Democrat, was accused of delivering a bizarre tirade against Jews, while ripping de Blasio as a sellout during a local community board meeting this week.
They asked me to come in and work with the local community board in Fort Greene, and the local Council Member, to make sure there was an affordable housing component to that building.
These sites will go through the standard Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which includes public hearings by the local community boards, input from borough presidents, and votes by the Council and City Planning Commission.
Ed Santos, born in Detroit, is a former math teacher and member of the local community board in East Harlem.
He is a former member of his local Community Board 10 as well as of the board of directors of BRAVO, the Bay Ridge volunteer ambulance corps.
Hinton said de Blasio's first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, found out in late February when DCAS Commissioner Lisette Camilo, who had recently taken over the agency, learned of the situation from a local community board and put a hold on all deed restriction modifications.
The hospital treats about 600 psychiatric patients a year, about half from Washington Heights and Inwood, said the local community board, which opposes the plan.
Because the Continuum project is seeking a zoning change, it will need approval through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which includes input from the local community board and borough president as well as up - down votes from the City Planning Commission, City Council and mayor.
In Queens, Sanders is being challenged in a Democratic primary by Adrienne Adams, a local community board chairwoman who has the backing of the Queens Democratic Party.
ELMHURST — A local lawmaker's proposal to have Roosevelt Avenue patrolled by one precinct has gotten the kibosh from the NYPD's commissioner and the local community board, who both think the thoroughfare is too big.
If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.
But the local community board, the local councilman, Costa Constantinides, and the Queens borough president all opposed the project.
«I'm appalled by what the state hasn't done,» he told the local community board in 2010.
BATTERY PARK CITY — The Battery Park City Authority ought to be phased out after squandering more than $ 300,000 in public funds, the chairwoman of the local community board said Monday.
Rivera is Mendez's former Legislative Director, and a prominent local leader in the East Village, having served on the local Community Board and 3 worked with numerous local neighborhood organizations.
«You spent your career ignoring the people on the street,» charged Mr. Vallone, who criticized Mr. Avella for wanting to end the NYPD's controversial stop - and - frisk tactic and accused him of supporting a massage parlor he described as «a seedy hotel which is known for prostitution» over the objection of the local community board.
Acuity Capital sought a special permit to build taller than current zoning allows, transferring air rights from adjacent properties, which the local community board and the Municipal Arts Society claimed should invoke MIH.
At 10:30 a.m. Monday, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Bronx Veteran Advisory Council will host a meeting to educate the local community boards and elected officials on veterans» resources in the Bronx and across the city.
And even though Sanders pulled out of the congressional contest, Crowley and Flake have put up a tough challenger against him for his state seat covering Laurelton, Rosedale, Springfield Gardens and the Rockaways: Adrienne Adams, chairwoman of the local community board and a member of Flake's flock.
Please join me in supporting marriage equality for all New Yorkers,» urges Wintour, whose other political forays have included hosting President Barack Obama in her Greenwich Village apartment and showing up unexpectedly to her local community board meeting.
Meanwhile, in Chelsea, the de Blasio administration clashed with the local community board over its decision not to apply MIH to Acuity Capital Partners» proposed 17 - story, 72 - unit condo development planned for West 18th Street.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer last week announced this year's appointees to local community boards.
In the Sept. 19 2014 Black Enterprise article, «Brian Benjamin: Doing Business in Black Communities for the Benefit of Black People,» he stated «I am in leadership on my local Community Board in Central Harlem.
In a January letter to de Blasio, a local community board raised alarm over the lifting of a deed restriction last year on Rivington House, a former AIDS hospice, warning that it could be resold as luxury apartments.
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