Sentences with phrase «most city districts»

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Winter and Brown tore down the mansions within days of buying them and transformed this stretch of Fifth Avenue into one of the most exclusive shopping districts in the world, or «the aristocrat of shopping thoroughfares» as the WPA Guide to New York City called it.

The D.B.S. building, a $ 25 - million showpiece of the new financial district, covers one side of a city block, Naturally, the structure was also designed as a revenue earner and most of the space is rented to commercial banks.

These two most distinct and distinguished cities are revealed in astonishing detail, as photographer Jeffrey Milstein explores residential and commercial neighborhoods, parks and recreation sites, as well as industrial districts and the infrastructure of transportation.

In Oakland, one of the nation's most diverse cities, Jackson says he would like to see Uber hire local workers and businesses and invest in the community, including the Oakland Unified School District.

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Most Republican and Democratic members of Congress had already left the city to return to their home districts for spring break.

On Wednesday evening the Arcata City Council discussed introducing updated regulations on cannabis sales to allow for retail sales in most commercial districts of the cCity Council discussed introducing updated regulations on cannabis sales to allow for retail sales in most commercial districts of the citycity.

Pius also brought a pragmatic desire to realize in this small town what his papal predecessor Nicholas V desired but could not realize for Rome: the «most perfect paradise» of the Vatican district, a City of God on the Tuscan side of the Tiber.

Located on W. Oglethorpe St. in the heart of Savannah's Landmark Historic District, the restaurant is situated on what is known to be one of the most haunted blocks in the city.

About Hotel Boutique Just a few minutes» walk from some of the city's most popular sites such as Bryant Park, the theater district, United Nations building and much more, Hotel Boutique is the ideal New York hotel for business travel and sightseeing.

The city argues that the Park District didn't have authority to make the deal because the city holds title to most of Millennium Park.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

The mansion and greenhouse now rub shoulders with the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, the Elmhurst Art Museum, a large playground and a series of formal gardens — most operated by the Park District and the city in partnership with private nonprofit groups.

The Park District includes the City of Crystal Lake, most of the Village of Lakewood and some unincorporated areas.

With 560 parks, 6,061 employees and an annual budget of $ 268.5 million - more than most cities in the country - the Chicago Park District does little to attract the city «s 917,000 young people under 20 off the streets and into supervised recreational activities.

The lawsuit contends the contract to run the restaurant is invalid because City Hall holds title to most of Millennium Park but the Park District made the 20 - year deal with the restaurant group.

CHICAGO — The city's first swim ban of the year was lifted Thursday, a day after high levels of bacteria were detected at a beach that has seen more bans than most Chicago Park District beaches in recent years.

Park District officials told prospective participants last week that they hope the event, to be held May 13 - 21 under a huge tent in Butler Field, east of the Petrillo Music Shell and north of Buckingham Fountain, will draw tourists as well as inspire city dwellers to make the most of their patches of ground.

This year, the district sent employees to some of the city's most popular beaches, where they talked with beachgoers about keeping beaches clean by throwing away trash and not feeding gulls.

The show aims to offer practical and imaginative ways to make the most of garden spaces common in the city — small front and back yards, parkways, balconies and roof gardens, for example, said Laura Foxgrover, director of development for the Park District.

Although a Chicago Park District spokeswoman raised the possibility the city bans were related to the sewage spill, parks General Supt. David Doig said the swim bans likely were caused by a number of factors, most notably the recent heat wave.

The Emanuel administration sued over Park Grill in December 2011, contending the agreement is invalid because City Hall holds title to most of Millennium Park but the Park District made the 20 - year deal with the company to run the restaurant.

SOUTH SIDE — The city's first swim ban of the year was lifted Thursday, a day after high levels of bacteria were detected at a beach that has seen more bans than most Chicago Park District beaches in recent years.

Jesse Madison, the city consumer services commissioner who was named to the new position of executive vice president of the park district and given most of the duties of General Supt. Edmund Kelly, came to observe the rump meeting Thursday, even though he said it was illegally held.

Most of his precinct workers had park district jobs, and they knew that keeping those jobs depended on the quantity of votes they produced on election days — not the quality of their work in city parks.

Let the festival contract for the site with the Park District and pay its amusement tax to the city, and let the Park District decide where the money is needed most.

Under the plan, the district would sell most of Northerly Island to the city, which would cover more than 90 percent of that cost with federal and state funds, to generate a district windfall of up to $ 100 million, said Steve Whitney, president of Friends of Meigs.

Joliet officials say the city might foot most of the bill and then seek the rest of the money from the Park District.

Shimon Waronker, the embattled superintendent of the Hempstead school district, was placed on administrative leave by the district's school board majority — an action, which if it holds up, will ban the former New York City educator from intervening in the operations of Long Island's most troubled school system.

«The central business district of Manhattan is the most transit - dense part of New York City and New York City is, of course, the most transit - dense part of the United States,» said Nick Sifuentes, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The vacancy at Henninger will be filled by Brian Kavanagh, a local educator who most recently served as executive director of education and personnel for the Oswego City School District.

Council District 19 is the most ethnically and religiously diverse in the City.

The Village Independent Democrats, located in the heart of Quinn's district, instead opted to back City Comptroller John Liu — the most liberal in the race.

In the past, Gianaris» district, the 12th District, encompassed most of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside with a thin tentacle extending down to take in parts of Maspeth and Ridistrict, the 12th District, encompassed most of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside with a thin tentacle extending down to take in parts of Maspeth and RiDistrict, encompassed most of Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside with a thin tentacle extending down to take in parts of Maspeth and Ridgewood.

There are now besieged areas all over Syria, including in Homs, Aleppo, the north - eastern city of Al - Hassaka, and - probably most infamously - in the Yarmouk district of Damascus.

Cuomo is backing one of the most vulnerable Senate Democratic incumbents in the state in a Queens district that is moderate - to - conservative for New York City.

However, cities always end up unrepresented, even if the regions do not have a specific protection.Protected district can have 3 or 4 times less people in it than the most populous district.

The over-representation of London is partly due to the city having all - out elections while most of the smaller district councils in Leave leaning areas have just one - third of their council seats up for election.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

For the two years before his federal indictment, Lipsky was one of the most prominent voices in defending Willets Point United, a coalition of small business and property owners in Willets Point who have sought to fight the city's plans to replace the 62 - acre district of auto repair shops and factories with a $ 3 billion development project.

Even though she represents the 14th District, one of the City's poorest, she somehow managed to find the most expensive office space of any Member of the Council.

Students First says it spent the most money in the 40th Senate district, which lies in the costly New York City media market.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

That district, which includes downtown, the South Side and parts of the University Hill neighborhood, is the city's most Democratic and one of its youngest.

That campaign, like most Democratic primaries in New York City and State, had been staked on getting the paper's backing, and a few days after he got it, Mr. Schneiderman eked out a 2 - point victory over Nassau County district attorney Kathleen Rice, even though Ms. Rice was tacitly backed by Andrew Cuomo and much of the Democratic Party establishment.

Most of Mahoney's shared services plan's estimated $ 5 million in savings will come from an agreement between the Syracuse City School District, city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to buy supplemental Medicare benefits for area retirees, Mahoney said in SeptemCity School District, city of Syracuse and Onondaga County to buy supplemental Medicare benefits for area retirees, Mahoney said in Septemcity of Syracuse and Onondaga County to buy supplemental Medicare benefits for area retirees, Mahoney said in September.

Community activist Carlina Rivera has raised both the most money overall and the most money from the real estate sector in the race for District 2 on the City Council, which covers the East Village and Alphabet City in Manhattan.

Most of the proposed corridors on Fifth and Sixth avenues go through Community Board 5, led by district manager Wally Rubin, and City Council District 3, represented by Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vacating her seat and running fodistrict manager Wally Rubin, and City Council District 3, represented by Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vacating her seat and running foDistrict 3, represented by Speaker Christine Quinn, who is vacating her seat and running for mayor.