Sentences with phrase «neighborhood activists»

When it was sold to a condo developer for $ 15 million in 2013, he joined protests with neighborhood activists.

But Lesko changed her mind after a group of neighborhood activists urged her to challenge five - term incumbent Mayor John Hieftje in the city's Democratic primary.

Hogan tried to portray himself as a long - time neighborhood activist who believes residents can pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

The Buildings Department quietly lifted portions of a stop - work order on the Rivington House Nursing Home — infuriating neighborhood activists and elected officials who fear that opens the door for luxury condos.

Local newspapers are flooded with letters to the editor and Obama - supporting op - ed column submissions, while neighborhood activists walk the streets and rally door - to - door.

Well seasoned neighborhood activists were also present.

«As a dedicated neighborhood activist for my entire career, I know the needs of my community and will be a tireless voice for organized labor and our City's progressive values.»

Tuesday's double - homicide in Buffalo has mobilized neighborhood activists.

But, like practically every Peace Bridge improvement ever proposed, the plan from Reps. Brian Higgins and Chris Collins quickly met with strong pushback, this time from the Common Council member whose district includes the bridge and from a longtime neighborhood activist.

Meanwhile, high - profile neighborhood activist Amber Small, who launched her Democratic candidacy for the seat this winter, wasted no time criticizing Jacobs, claiming Republicans represent an «anti-working families agenda.»

It's where I made my closest friends, and it's where I fell in love (Rivera was married to fellow neighborhood activist Jamie Rogers last year).

UPPER EAST SIDE — Ben Kallos won the Democratic nomination for the District 5 City Council seat Tuesday, besting scandal - plagued Assemblyman Micah Kellner and neighborhood activist Ed Hartzog.

She recruited and promoted Janai McDonough, a homemaker turned neighborhood activist, to challenge political newcomers Republican Craig Johnson and Democrat Bill Carey.

This week, neighborhood activists learned City Councilwoman Margaret Chin has allocated an additional $ 400,000 (on top of $ 550,000 her office already earmarked for the project).

Deep in Liu territory, neighborhood activist Ethel Chen defended Weiner's recent revelations that he continued his sexting spree a year after resigning from office in June 2011, -LSB-...]

He looks after his aged, forgetful mom, swaps depressed pleasantries with the barber (Steve Buscemi) who owns the shop next door and forlornly resists the attentions of the pretty neighborhood activist (Melonie Diaz of «Fruitvale Station») who wants to preserve this corner of the Lower East Side where four generations of Simkins have fixed shoes.

And union leaders may warm up to decentralizing management, even with more flexible labor contracts, especially if they can win control of pilot and autonomous schools by uniting with Latino neighborhood activists.

At Van Buren, they have included attorneys who have led students through «mock trials,» and recently, a local neighborhood activist who helped kids beautify their community, said Velina Chavez - Lopez, the campus director.

Was it because of all those politically correct ecocrazy neighborhood activists from the Annex on City Council?

A coalition of neighborhood activists and elected officials has intensified its campaign to get the city to remove a Central Park statue of Dr. James Marion Sims, a white Southern doctor who performed experimental surgeries on enslaved black women.

The Buildings Department quietly lifted portions of a stop - work order on the Rivington House Nursing Home — infuriating neighborhood activists and elected officials who fear that opens the door for...

But now upstart teachers had joined in common cause with neighborhood activists, arguing that even popular charter firms were «outsiders.»

Among the dead are both neighborhood activists and others less active but possibly sympathetic to the ideas of such activists.

The group of neighborhood activists has now focused its attention on attracting new and upscale businesses to the shopping districts, which include Milwaukee and North Avenues.

«This is another example of why the commercial processing of any kind of cargo does not belong here at the Peace Bridge,» said Kathy Mecca, a neighborhood activist and president of the Niagara Gateway Columbus Park Association

The neighborhood activist at least has the advantage of having lived in the ward for the last 10 years.

LOWER MANHATTAN — A lawyer, a union leader and a neighborhood activist are the newest members of downtown's Community Board 1.

A broad - based coalition of neighborhood activists, social justice and food advocacy groups, top chefs, writers, farmers, fishermen, ranchers, civic leaders and state agencies is revamping the way food is grown, distributed and disposed.

But after joining forces with charter comrades to pass the public school choice legislation, neighborhood activists and teachers now split off to fight the charter awards, alleging that charter firms were too imperial and noting fresh statistics that special education students were underrepresented in the charter sector.

Almost 1,500 charters have been granted to a colorful variety of neighborhood activists and well - heeled corporations.

Golding, a fan of Moore's and a neighborhood activist in the East Village for some 67 years, took the floor to rally her troops.

In some cases, neighborhood activists are pushing for TODs.