Sentences with phrase «many upstate towns»

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said.

It's a story all of us should be paying attention to — especially with another upstate town, Petersburgh, now facing contamination fears as well.

Some pieces of the old bridge will escape the crushers and furnaces and be trucked to upstate towns looking to save thousands of dollars on their own bridge projects.

Keith Johnson, 46, was pronounced dead after he was found Sunday in a wooded area in the upstate town of Shandaken in Ulster County.

State health officials do not seem especially eager to field questions about the ongoing water contamination crisis in Hoosick Falls and other upstate towns.

Among the upstate town's major political donors are Joseph and Esther Markowitz, who run a local real estate company and regularly write four - figure checks to certain candidates from New York City.

A study of 2012 data that group commissioned showed $ 253 million in economic impact for upstate towns along the existing Erie Canalway Trail, which finally would be completed under the governor's plan.

News that the wells contain PFOA, a cancer - causing substance produced by factories that made Teflon, came at a time when the town seemed poised to join the revival that has taken place in other upstate towns in and around the Hudson Valley.

The dream of every resident of every crumbling upstate town is to bring its potential in line with its reality.

He visited upstate towns on a boat that chugged through the Erie Canal.

Maybe placing franchises in all upstate towns and villages will turn around the upstate economy.

ALBANY — Wednesday's decision to allow developers to build Las Vegas - style casinos in three faded upstate towns is perhaps most remarkable for what it lacks.

Unlike the faded main drags of so many upstate towns, the quaint storefronts along Market Street are bustling, buoyed by the six - figure average salaries of company employees.

Why, then, should NYS force upstate towns to house criminals from NYC but deny them the benefits of doing so?

Stringer's amicus is in support of the upstate town of Dryden, which two years ago banned fracking under a local «home - rule» provision.

The de Blasio administration is illegally shipping homeless families off to unsuspecting, upstate towns with a year of free rent — forcing those municipalities to pick up the rest of their living expenses, Broome County officials said Thursday.

So against Katherine's advisement, David and Emily move from New York City to the small upstate town of Woodland, where neighbors are separated by menacing forests that contain dark, foreboding caves.

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo...

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charters.

Home values in the state of New York encompass a wide range of expected mortgage payments, from the $ 3,800 on a typical mortgage in Rye to sub - $ 300 payments calculated for upstate towns like Jamestown and Dunkirk.

Nestled into cozy upstate towns with great schools and easy access to everything you demand, these communities welcome you home.

Street - cast from an upstate town where the artist spends some of her time, the opaque figures reflect Neshat's interpretation of American identity.

Both of them cited the greatly reduced area where fracking would actually take place in New York — since most upstate towns ban it.

Nestled into cozy upstate towns with great schools and easy access to everything you demand, these communities welcome you home.

Not exact matches

Its factory here is expected to eventually employ 2,000, and it has already begun shifting employees from elsewhere, including 100 from the town in upstate New York where the company was founded two centuries ago.

A small lakeside town in upstate New York is fed up with Bitcoin miners using up so much of its low - cost electricity.

As a young man in 1840, abandoning the upstate New York towns to which his family retreated after his father's bankruptcy and death, he visited Manhattan with his friend Eli Fly.

I was traveling with my fellow pastor from a little town in upstate North Dakota.

As expected, state gaming regulators on Tuesday approved a casino license for the Tioga Downs Casino in the town of Nichols — adding a fourth casino to upstate New York.

Demographically the state overall has shifted more Democratic, but the upstate region remains heavily Republican, save for pockets of Democratic strongholds in urban areas and college towns.

Or any other number of impoverished small towns all across upstate.

When New York state passed «the toughest gun control laws in the nation» on Jan. 15, concern arose in a small upstate New York town built around a gun manufacturing company.

It would be banned inside New York City's sprawling upstate watershed, as well as inside a watershed used by Syracuse, and in underground water sources used by other cities and towns.

While the Catskills town of Prattsville was virtually wiped off the map and more than 500,000 people lost power on Long Island and in the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions upstate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducted separate helicopter tours of damaged areas across New York, garnering glowing reviews in local papers.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Sen. Kathy Marchione, Assemblyman John T. McDonald III and others advocate for upstate transportation funding parity in the 2016 - 17 State Budget, North Greenbush Town Hall, 2 Douglas St., Wynantskill.

As the entire upstate and Western New York regions go, so, too, goes each individual town, village or city.

They are upstate guys, from struggling former mill towns and diminished Rust Belt cities.

The push for a tax cap seemed to come from two fronts: upstate lawmakers who were wondering why Mr. de Blasio didn't have to scrimp and save to stay under the property tax cap the way their towns do, and downstate politicians from parts of the city where homeowners say they are fed up with increasing property tax bills.

[3] The town is named after Paul Busti, an official of the Holland Land Company, but its pronunciation uses a long i sound at the end, a frequent alteration in the names of several upstate New York towns.

We all want to live in a cow pasture next door (about 25 miles from next door actually) to those run down falling apart heaps that pass for «towns» outside of the cities upstate.

More important to me is this: I grew up upstate and I know the malaise that affects our cities and towns and villages.

A popular snowmobiling route located in one of the prime snowmobiling areas upstate was slated to be closed this winter, due in part to hard feelings between the property owner and the town of Redfield in Oswego County.

As a working teamster running for governor, I believe that state government ought to raise the living standards of working New Yorkers, especially in struggling upstate cities like Rochester and my home town of Syracuse.

Abundant gas has drastically lowered the price of gasoline nationwide and many New Yorkers upstate saw fracking as a way to revive their moribund towns and cities.

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.

New York is diverse and populous, the Big Town ranks as the country's economic and media capital, and the upstate cities are not exactly Podunks, either.

In Depew, near Buffalo, on Tuesday, Mr. Clinton provided an extemporaneous laundry list of her efforts upstate, including a partnership with eBay that trained craft makers in mill towns on the Erie Canal to sell their goods online, and efforts to transform a vacant car dealership in Buffalo into an artist's work space, funnel federal funding to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and protect the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

The Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack filed a lawsuit against the state board that in December selected Lago Resort & Casino just off the Thruway in the Town of Tyre as one of three recommended sites for an upstate casino.

He insisted that Trump would win in upstate communities like Cheektowaga, and the many towns and cities around the nation that resemble them.