Sentences with phrase «many outer boroughs»

Amazon Books should look to the outer boroughs for its next outpost.

And Redfin — which has a small presence in New York's outer boroughs — raised nearly $ 210 million before going public last summer.

Not only did Manhattan's trophy office circuit suffer, but the outer boroughs also entered a period of stagnancy.

Church planting is up 2.1 percent across the outer boroughs.

Churches, especially those in the «outer boroughs,» grew.

In addition to expanding taxi service to the city's outer boroughs, it would also add 1,500 yellow cab medallion licenses.

«If we're going to address the traffic and do a congestion pricing scheme, it's got to be fair and not punish the people from the outer boroughs,» Lanza said.

Queens lawmakers sought today to head off a bill expected in Albany next session to add a toll on the now - free East River bridges while slashing prices to cross bridges linking only the outer boroughs.

The London Assembly's report «Hostile Streets — Walking and Cycling at Outer London Junctions» says that some roads in outer boroughs do not offer even a basic level of service, with crossings inaccessible to wheelchairs and incomplete cycle lanes that push cyclists out into fast moving traffic.

(The GOP lawmakers on both those bodies all hail from the outer boroughs).

«It depends on the documents, but if as I believe the agreement between John Haggerty and the Independence Party gave Haggerty the discretion to spend that money and achieve the goal... people don't remember how important white turnout was in the outer boroughs in a very, very narrow election win for Mike Bloomberg.

That is just the latest attempt to explain how, of all people, the crude thrice - married billionaire from the outer boroughs became the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

«And I've never seen a proposal that would address a lot of the equity issues that would be created for people in the outer boroughs, for people of low income who use their cars.»

Catsimatidis made the comments in an article that noted all his grocery stores were then located either in Manhattan or the suburbs — not in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx or Staten Island — «reflecting his bias against opening stores in the outer boroughs.»

Jon Weinstein, a spokesman for Cuomo, assured that any congestion pricing plan that's introduced would have a limited impact on outer borough residents.

«If we're going to address the traffic and do a congestion pricing scheme, it's got to be fair and not punish the people from the outer boroughs,» Lanza told reporters.

The revenue from the tolls and for - hire vehicle surcharges would go to the MTA for the subways, and «for transit improvements in the outer boroughs or suburban counties, including bus systems,» said the report, which laid out a three - phase plan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in the past has called congestion pricing initiatives a «regressive tax» on commuters from the outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, was more sanguine about the new approach.

Hailing from the outer boroughs, Cathy knows the issues important to Queens.

This would reduce the tolls on some of the outer borough crossings like the Throgs Neck Bridge and the Triborough Bridge.

Nor does the plan call for lowering existing tolls on bridges between outer boroughs, something that was crucial to the outer - borough argument for the Move NY plan.

Fillmore Real Estate, Brooklyn's largest independent brokerage, is joining the Real Estate Board of New York, significantly increasing the trade group's presence as it continues to expand its reach into the outer boroughs.

In an interview on the Brian Lehrer show Friday morning, de Blasio demonstrated more openness to this congestion pricing plan than to a prior, much - circulated plan called Move NY that would have put new tolls on the East River bridges and lowered them between the outer boroughs.

REBNY has in recent years been making a push to expand membership in the outer boroughs.

Now people are ditching that area for the outer boroughs.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

Of the five AG contenders, not one hails from the outer boroughs, which means voters in all of them are more or less up for grabs.

«I'm proud to have been able to allocate funding for technology incubators throughout the outer boroughs,» Councilman James Vacca, chairman of the Council's Committee on Technology, said in a statement.

«While it's okay to say that they're «outer borough,» one thinks himself as the champion of the middle class and the other thinks of himself as the champion of the underdog.»

Cuomo said support for the plan to allow street hails in the outer boroughs «appears to be dissipating,» contradicting the mayor's view just three days earlier.

Streets throughout the outer boroughs were unplowed or under - plowed for days, and state Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst) said a Corona woman, Yvonne Freeman, died and a three - month - old baby was left brain dead because emergency responders could not reach them in time due to impassable streets.

A group of outer borough lawmakers gathered in Brooklyn today to unveil a bill to stop the city's recently passed plan to levy a five - cent surcharge on paper and plastic bags.

A recent Times poll says opposition to the proposed mosque near Ground Zero is more intense in the outer boroughs.

«Obviously I've been a champion for the outer boroughs.

Joe Lhota, the Bronx Bomber, has never lost his outer borough sensibility.

While living with roommates can offer substantial savings in the outer boroughs, new grads moving to Manhattan are are likely to save less by rooming up because of disproportionately high rents on studios and 1 - bedrooms in the borough, StreetEasy found.

But this «is only fair,» the report states, particularly to the outer boroughs and suburbs, where subway and bus access isn't as robust as Manhattan.

The de Blasio administration has steadfastly maintained that it can't get behind a congestion pricing plan because it unfairly burdens low - income New Yorkers traveling into Manhattan from the outer boroughs.

The mayor has also argued that surcharges will unfairly burden low - income and outer borough residents — a concern shared by many elected officials who represent those districts.

He's also up for reelection this year, and seemingly eager to win support in the outer boroughs, where congestion pricing has proven unpopular in the past.

However, the agreed abatement still only allows condo projects in the outer boroughs with a maximum of 35 units and an average assessed value of no more than $ 65,000.

Such a bid would make him the third white outer borough Democrat seeking to unseat the liberal mayor, as Queens State Senator Tony Avella and former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese have already launched their own campaigns.

The provider released a proposal to expand to the outer boroughs in exchange for exclusivity and more.

State Assembly member David Weprin told the New York Times that the report didn't take into account how outer borough commuters would need to make their way into the congestion zone to run errands or the fact these drivers also have to shell out money on parking and gas.

When their message becomes salient, she could lose all support from church going democrats particulary African - Americans, Hispanics, Jews and conservative whites in the outer boroughs, even though these demographics were already said to prefer one or more of her opponents.

Cuomo, appearing peeved but highly confident, asked Taxi and Limousine Commission head David Yassky tough questions about the still - being - negotiated bill to allow liveries to pick up street hails in the outer boroughs and in upper Manhattan

Cuomo noted only about 5 percent of outer borough residents drive into Manhattan, with the vast majority of commuters taking mass transit.

A group of outer borough lawmakers gathered in Brooklyn today to unveil a bill to stop New York City's recently passed plan to levy a five - cent surcharge on paper and plastic bags.

Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat, is one of many NYC officials questioning today's Census numbers, which show significantly less population growth — particularly in the outer boroughs — than was predicted, potentially due to an undercount of the burgeoning immigrant community.