Sentences with phrase «lower east side»

The powerful speaker at the time, Sheldon Silver, came from the Lower East Side but was described by Brennan and other colleagues as ambivalent about the congestion pricing proposal.

«I have some buildings that have cameras and some that don't, and it absolutely deters crime,» said Aixa Torres, who is the tenant association president of Alfred E. Smith Houses on the Lower East Side.

The Lower East Side Business Improvement District staged an outdoor fashion show featuring clothing from local designers and boutiques.

«I think they're dropping the ball and they should really be proactive about it because a lot of people depend on that rent to stay in New York,» said Paul Echaniz, who lives on the Lower East Side.

Even in 2012, the Lower East Side remains the area of the U.S. statistically most associated with immigration due to its long service as an initial immigrant destination in which enormous numbers of immigrant and migrant residents were squeezed into its less than two square miles.

With 97 % of the vote counted, she has 58 % in the 7th Congressional District, which includes sections of the Lower East Side and Chinatown as well as a large swath of Brooklyn.

Richard Moses, president of the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative collected more than 1000 signatures in support of the district's immediate formation, saying, «development pressures are intense and increasing all the time.»

LOWER EAST SIDE — Most public housing residents on the Lower East Side said they do not feel protected from trespassers in their home, a new report revealed Thursday.

«The results show we have a long way to go to keep our NYCHA residents safe,» Stringer said of the report, which recently surveyed more than 500 NYCHA resident from 10 Lower East Side and East Village public housing developments.

The improvements will make Delancey Street safer and better suited to serve the Lower East Side community.»

She and her husband donated to Mr. Silver's campaigns and supported him locally through the Lower East Side Democrats club.

Sheldon Silver was a sorry sight Tuesday as he walked in the drizzle on the Lower East Side with a cup of coffee in hand, a day after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Anyone who has been involved in the Lower East Side community during almost half a century was aware of the controversy that left a huge parcel of highly valuable land standing idle for far too long.

Silver held immense power in Albany as Assembly speaker for two decades — and yet the average person doesn't even know what his district is (it's the Lower East Side).

He was first elected by a district on the Lower East Side in 1976, rose to speaker of the Assembly in 1994, and has methodically consolidated his control of that half of the State Legislature.

Firefighters are battling to save what's left of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, the historic synagogue at 60 Norfolk St.. You can see and smell the smoke from blocks away on the Lower East Side tonight.

Fair reporting; one difficulty in the hearing that is worthy of mention was that much of the message about immigration in general to the Lower East Side got lost, much like most of the buildings associated with such immigration.

For months, the de Blasio administration has insisted that its top officials knew nothing about deed restrictions that were lifted by a city agency on a nursing home on the Lower East Side of Manhattan — learning of it only in late February, after the building was sold to luxury condominium developers for $ 116 million.

She made last minute campaign stops, alongside local elected officials, at several Lower East Side locations yesterday, including at two senior centers.

They write: The fair is open to all of Lower East Side community and beyond.

NYCHA added that about 85 developments, including 12 on the Lower East Side, will receive cameras and enhanced security features by the end of 2013.

A federal appeals court this morning overturned former Lower East Side Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's 2015 conviction on federal corruption charges.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

The new lines are not dramatically different on the Lower East Side but there are some changes you'll want to know about.

Silver, who represents a district that includes Manhattan's Lower East Side, filed the proper documents, which included his income as a private lawyer representing individual clients at the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, the complaint says.

As previously reported the Lower East Side political club, CoDA, decided not to make an endorsement in the 1st District campaign and Lower Manhattan democrats backed Chin.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron and State Assemblywoman Yuh - Line Niou visited a Lower East Side senior center yesterday as part of a campaign to restore funding for NYC senior programs.

The District includes the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho, Wall Street and Tribeca.

If the Lower East Side lawmaker were forced out of his post — for now, Assembly Democrats and Mr. de Blasio are sticking by him — a successor would likely wield far less clout than Mr. Silver, the speaker since 1994.

In the letter to Veronique Hakim, president of New York City Transit, he explained, «M14A and M14D bus service is critical to the Lower East Side community.

Several NORCs are located on the Lower East Side.

Friedlander was the outspoken, firebrand Democrat who represented the East Village and Lower East Side in the City Council during some of the area's most turbulent years, from 1974 to 1991, and died at New York University Medical Center on Sun., Oct. 4, 2009, at 95.

Sheldon Silver, who rose from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to become one of the state's most powerful and feared politicians as speaker of the New York Assembly, was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison in a case that came to symbolize Albany's culture of graft.

The Lower East Side job covered 25,000 sq. ft and cost around $ 400,000.

After Years of Advocacy, New Sidewalk Installed at Rutgers Houses The Lo - Down: News from the Lower East Side

For all of us way too familiar with the dysfunction and abuse of power over the years and watched community participation dwindle (even our own), it is refreshening to see people like McCarthy and Lower East Side Dwellers stand up for themselves, and two MBP administrations stand up to CB3.

Turnout was lowest in the 7th Congressional District, where incumbent Nydia Velázquez easily swept to victory over term - limited City Councilman Erik Dilan in the district spanning Manhattan's Lower East Side, Brooklyn's Sunset Park, Williamsburg, Carroll Gardens, Bushwick and parts of Queens.

While Velázquez dominated across the Lower East Side, Queens, and Brownstone Brooklyn, she managed to keep pace with Dilan in the Hasidic sections of Williamsburg, where about 40 percent of ballots were cast in her favor, according to early poll return data.

An NYPD officer looks at the glass door broken while cops arrested an OWS demonstrator on the Lower East Side Saturday night.

The campaign to co-name a Lower East Side street corner in honor of the Beastie Boys will get another shot before Community Board 3's transportation committee next month.

UPDATE 8/10: We spoke last night with Paul Newell, a local district leader who ran unsuccessfully for the Lower East Side assembly seat last year.

State elected officials are hoping some good can come from the death of 25 - year - old Stephen Hewett - Brown, who was crushed New Year's Eve in an elevator accident on the Lower East Side.

Not - for - profit law firm, MFY Legal Services, wants a judge to force the state Department of Health to reveal how it approved the Allure Group's purchase of Rivington House, a nursing home for AIDS patients in the Lower East Side and CABS Nursing Home in Brooklyn, papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court reveal.

Mr. Quinn, who is also Ms. Cancel's husband, was a longtime local ally to Mr. Silver and a leader in the Lower East Side Democrats club.

The Lower East Side Democrats and Mr. Silver's Harry Truman Democratic Club played a crucial role in securing the Democratic line for Ms. Cancel in the race for Mr. Silver's old Lower Manhattan territory.

The District includes the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho, Tribeca and Wall Street.

The district covers the East Village, Alphabet City, Murray Hill, Kip's Bay, Rose Hill, Gramercy Park, and the Lower East Side.

It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.

There are six major settlement houses on the Lower East Side.

Sheldon Silver WHO: Speaker WHAT: New York State Assembly The gravelly voiced Lower East Side trial lawyer has been demonized as the symbol of cloak - and - dagger government.