Sentences with phrase «needs of city residents»

Since these agents are local, they understand the needs of city residents.

Since these agents are local, they understand the needs of city residents.

The Challenge called on cities to do more than merely introduce new technologies onto city streets, requiring them to boldly envision new solutions that would change the face of transportation in our cities by closing the gap between rich and poor; capturing the needs of both young and old; and bridging the digital divide through smart design so that the future of transportation meets the needs of all city residents.

The Chicago Park District unveiled plans Thursday to increase staff levels and extend hours at 22 of the district's summer day camps, the latest in a series of changes in the district, which has been criticized for not adapting to the needs of city residents.

Not exact matches

While the concern over a major earthquake is a day - to - day affair for Californians, residents of West Hollywood might be a little more nervous than usual after the city has cited more than 800 buildings that could be at risk of damage or collapse and may need to be retrofitted.

To determine which communities are a good fit for the initiative, Starbucks looks at all the available data on the socio - economic health of America's cities to understand which communities have the biggest opportunity gaps, which have the biggest need for business investment and leadership, and where there is local movement underway to build a better future for its residents.

As Harvey ravaged the Houston area, City departments responded to help meet the needs of residents.

Compared with their counterparts in advanced, tier 1 mega-cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, residents of smaller tier 4 and tier 5 cities are commonly thought to be less valuable as customers because they aren't as wealthy, have limited shopping needs, low brand awareness and frugal mindsets.

When a local business desires not just capital, but engaged and impassioned customers, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them; when a retail investor wants a meaningful alternative to the 70 % algorithmically - traded public markets they distrust, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them; and when a struggling city desperately needs to engage all of its residents — not just the 2 % who are accredited — to ignite their local community's economy, pride, and identity, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

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Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

The city of Chicago, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Park District and The Trust for Public Land have joined forced to convert abandoned railroad space along the once bustling Bloomingdale Line into much - needed community green space for residents and visitors.

While there is certainly comedy and entertainment value in some of the petty squabbles, there have also been moments when it has potentially deprived the residents of New York City and New York state needed resources.

This legislation will provide much - needed funds for medical treatment to the rescue workers and residents of New York City who suffered illnesses from breathing in toxic fumes, dust and smoke from Ground Zero.

«Mayor de Blasio doesn't need to reach into the wallets of city residents to make that happen.»

Occupy Wall Street was a gim me issue for progressives around the city and the world, but in the neighborhood surrounding Zuccotti Park, it was a thorny situation in which free speech and assembly rights had to be balanced against the need of residents not to be disrupted, and Menin led the effort to forge a compromise resolution at C.B. 1.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday proposed a tax increase on the city's wealthiest residents to fund an upgrade of the city's beleaguered subway system, a plan that critics say won't bring in the needed funding soon enough.

«I say to every resident of the city of Buffalo that we want to reach out to them, that we want to work with them and when we work together, we are a much stronger community and that's what we need to do going forward,» he said.

This legislation guarantees for the first time in the Battery Park City Authority's history that the Board will be reflective of, and responsive to the needs of the local community by requiring at least two members of the Board be residents of Battery Park City.

«These companies essentially told New Yorkers «no Section 8 residents need apply,» mirroring decades of discrimination against our City's most vulnerable residents.

McLaughlin insisted that the city needs quarterly storm evacuation drills to remind residents of the city's public safety plan.

The metro mayor will need to set the agenda on this, convening the business community, universities and skills providers, and highlighting the importance of high quality apprenticeships for residents and businesses, as well as matching apprenticeships with businesses from different areas of the city region.

The metro mayor should use his or her influence and informal powers to better link businesses with colleges and universities to ensure that courses and vocational education match the needs and opportunities of the city region's businesses, and provide residents with higher skills and better access to opportunities in the future.

BP Katz Renders Her Office Available Mon - Thu to Assist Residents with HEAP Application QUEENS, NY — With the first cold snap of the season sending shivers throughout the city, Borough President Melinda Katz announced that residents in need of financial assistance to help heat their homes this winter are encouraged to come to her office Residents with HEAP Application QUEENS, NY — With the first cold snap of the season sending shivers throughout the city, Borough President Melinda Katz announced that residents in need of financial assistance to help heat their homes this winter are encouraged to come to her office residents in need of financial assistance to help heat their homes this winter are encouraged to come to her office -LSB-...]

«Residents of the 55th Senate District need to know that a vote for Ted O» Brien is a vote to put the New York City Democrats and their special interest allies, who want to overturn the property tax cap and obstruct Governor Cuomo's agenda, back in control of the State Senate.»

The duties of the public advocate are limited but include acting as the city's ombudsman and helping residents having trouble with the government get the services they need.

«It ensures continued robust development and the ability to build affordable housing to meet the needs of all of the city's residents.»

«We need healthcare reform — including promised Medicaid reform in New York where we spend more than Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania combined — but it shouldn't be done on the backs of already overburdened City residents who will undoubtedly have a tax increase forced on them to pay for this eminently unfair policy.»

Environmental groups and city officials denounced the State Legislature's decision saying it would lead to another year of bags contributing to waste and pollution, but state lawmakers argued more time was needed to study the financial impact of the fee on low income residents.

Mayor de Blasio's housing plan draws concern and support at a City Council hearing, as the city looks to require private developers to build affordable housing to meet the needs of the city's lowest - income resideCity Council hearing, as the city looks to require private developers to build affordable housing to meet the needs of the city's lowest - income residecity looks to require private developers to build affordable housing to meet the needs of the city's lowest - income residecity's lowest - income residents.

Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism for a tweet sent in the hours after yesterday's London attack that included a months - old comment from London Mayor Sadiq Khan that terror attacks are part of living in a big city, but left out that Khan was noting residents need to «be prepared.»

The residents of 510 W. 218th St. were allowed to return home on Christmas Eve after the their landlord Hakim Azizi made repairs to eight of 13 apartments that needed new windows, doors and locks, according to Martin Collins, community liaison for City Councilman Robert Jackson.

Those sentiments have been echoed by the de Blasio administration, which would also need to sign onto the megaproject, and whose first deputy mayor, Tony Shorris, recently argued that, «New York City and its residents must have a full voice in key issues such as site selection, terminal size, operational improvements and how to avoid the need for condemnation of private property in the area.»

The legislation captures an infinitesimal six percent of city sales tax, for a one - time need, in order to make desperate repairs to a degraded subway system that serves its residents and businesses.

State Senator Neil Breslin appeared with Assembly members Pat Fahy and John McDonald, in a show of support for Mayor Sheehan, who implored all city residents, state workers and politicians to blitz state lawmakers in a fund drive of epic proportions to not only land the $ 12.5 million to plug the hole in Albany's budget, but also fix funding formulas so the mayor never needs to pick the tin cup again.

As the population in this city expands, not only does city government need to tackle issues such as affordable housing for new residents, but also providing modes of transportation and preventing city streets from becoming overly congested.

Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj is our choice for City Council because he understands the needs of the residents of Throgs Neck, Morris Park and City Island and has used his position as a state lawmaker to be an advocate for the issues affecting the working people of the East Bronx.

BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 - unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

At 11 a.m., supporters of a «Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing» coalition of more than 130 community, disabilities, family, homeless, housing, legal, mental health, minority, social services and youth organizations call for city and state officials to expand supportive housing for residents with disabilities and other special needs; steps, City Hall, Manhatcity and state officials to expand supportive housing for residents with disabilities and other special needs; steps, City Hall, ManhatCity Hall, Manhattan.

Monica M. Arias Miranda, president of the Hispanic Coalition NY, said city leaders recognize that they have residents who need representation.

Roughly 40 percent of city residents between the ages of 50 and 64 have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement, even though a New Yorker would need to have saved $ 215,000 to live at poverty - level for a 15 - year retirement.

Servicing the needs of more than 184,000 residents composed of a variety of ethnic and income group that reflect in a true sense the mosaic mirror of the City of Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

The city has promised another new school Downtown to make room for the soaring population of children, but that hasn't been sited yet — another issue residents say they need help to push ahead.

Testifying before the City Council last month, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Nisha Agarwal said the city was aware of the increasing need for resources for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers and legal permanent resideCity Council last month, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Nisha Agarwal said the city was aware of the increasing need for resources for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers and legal permanent residecity was aware of the increasing need for resources for undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers and legal permanent residents.

QUEENS, NY — With the first cold snap of the season sending shivers throughout the city, Borough President Melinda Katz announced that residents in need of financial assistance to help heat their homes this winter are encouraged to come to her office at Queens Borough Hall to apply for the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP).

«We need to make sure residents in the City of Newburgh have water that is safe for their families and children to drink, and the EPA has the expertise and resources when it comes to testing for PFOS pollution and devising clean - up plans,» Schumer said in a statement.

Recalling a Council hearing on NYU's expansion plan in which she and other residents were kicked out of City Hall, Rajkumar declared, «we need a strong advocate... who stands up for us.»

«The history of New York City is one of constant change, but that change can't leave current residents behind — it needs to benefit and complement existing communities,» Brewer told Gotham Gazette.