Sentences with phrase «nearby union hall»

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Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

The modest neighborhoods that unfurl nearby are hemmed in by Interstate 4, dotted with union halls — and burdened by some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city.

With his Five Fences blocking the windows on a nearby Cooper Union building, Weiwei seemed honored to appear at the school's Great Hall, even offering to donate the work to the college.