Sentences with phrase «on abandoned cities»

The food obsessives at Chow put together a short video detailing the urban farming exploits of Novella Carpenter who raises bees, chickens, rabbits and fresh organic veggies on an abandoned city block in West Oakland.

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BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels left one besieged enclave on Friday and agreed to abandon another, leaving only the city of Douma still in insurgent hands in eastern Ghouta after a month - long army assault to drive them from the stronghold near Damascus.

Siemens this year abandoned the nuclear industry to focus on green power, sustainable cities and health care.

In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the future?

«I think the reason lies in the fact that this present globalized economy leaves masses of people uprooted and abandoned on the periphery of ever growing large cities, where they are engaged in a desperate struggle for daily survival.

Too many of the most favored and powerful have abandoned the Puritan ideal of the «city built on a hill» (language to which Ronald Reagan once appealed) and aspire to living in a mansion behind walls, where they can act out the anarchic fantasy of doing what pleases them.

Former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is lining up an audacious raid on his former club to seek the signing of world class box - to - box midfielder Yaya Toure, report the Mirror, with Inter Milan believing that the Ivory Coast international is willing to accept a 50 % wage cut to abandon the Etihad Stadium in favour of a surprise move to the San Siro.

That's not to say that there isn't a troubling pattern of failure in the latter stages of the Champions League, but what was astonishing on Wednesday was that he took a system that had worked so well to the point that City has lost only two meaningful games all season and stands 16 points clear atop the Premier League table, and he abandoned it for something else.

At about the 2:49 - minute mark in the second half of last night's «Wise Guys» segment on «Inside City Hall,» former NYC Mayor Ed Koch explained he abandoned his fellow Democrat largely because he felt there should be balance in Albany, adding:

He also touched on streetism where he said, some of the children he spoke to revealed that they have been forced to come to the city to seek greener pastures because their parents have abandoned them to also do same in other countries.

The year began without Governor Cuomo, who abandoned the tradition of a State of the State speech on the first day of the session, in favor of a presentation on airport renovations in front of a group of business leaders in New York City.

In December of that year, Mr. Smith — envisioning a run for mayor of New York City on the Republican ticket — abandoned the delegation he had once led and joined Mr. Klein's bipartisan coalition.

The questions to candidates largely focused on quality of life issues, such as trash pickup, transportation and city blight caused by abandoned properties.

More NYPD cops are abandoning their blue uniforms before getting their pensions, the city's largest police union charged on Tuesday.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

A plan to turn the city of Rochester's abandoned subway into a public promenade and luxury housing moved forward on Thursday with a vote by the city Council.

In a significant political blow to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Council decided to abandon its scheduled vote on a bill to restrict the horse - drawn carriage industry to Central Park after a key supporter of the deal — the Teamsters — rescinded its backing.

At 4 p.m., Sen. ony Avella will stand with neighbors of a long abandoned home to call on the city address the hazardous disrepair of this property, but also reform the system that has so far failed to address the scourge of abandoned homes in general, 50 - 19 175th Pl., Flushing, Queens.

Vacant and abandoned buildings - Third Ave. buildings that have been marked as vacant by the City of Albany on Friday, March 17, 2017, in Albany, N.Y..

The city has struck a deal with a developer to resurrect a handful of decaying landmarked buildings on a property abandoned nearly four decades ago.

From Mark Stein of the Staten Island Advance: The city has struck a deal with a developer to resurrect a handful of decaying landmarked buildings on a property abandoned nearly four decades ago.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, will call on Tuesday for restoring New York City's long - abandoned suburban commuter tax to help stabilize the finances of the region's creaky mass transit network.

In response, hundreds took to the streets on Thurs., Apr. 13th in what organizers labeled «Seder in the Streets,» to call for New York to abandon the «broken windows» policy; to more closely adhere to the values of a «sanctuary city»; and to resist cooperation with federal authorities.

The city has foreclosed on about 1,300 abandoned properties so far and conveyed them to us.»

The City can afford to provide this financial support since they benefit financially from the Land Bank's work in several ways: 1) Partnership with the Land Bank is enabling the City to collect previously uncollectable delinquent property taxes, 2) Previously tax - delinquent properties sold by the Land Bank and returned to the rolls are now paying taxes on - time, 3) prior to foreclosure it is the City's responsibility to maintain abandoned properties (mowing lawns, boarding windows, etc.) and once they foreclose this burden is shifted to the Land Bank.

The MTA, which holds a long - term lease on the abandoned trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street, is ready to start meeting with city officials to discuss transferring the site so that an innovative park can be built there, according to elected officials and the project's founders.

Gibson plans if elected to establish a congressional office in Kingston in an abandoned bank on Broadway where mayor Shayne Gallo wants to site the city police station.

Driving into the town, it was easy to observe that the city wasn't bubbling as most roads were deserted, exotic mansions abandoned and fine hotels had low patronage even with their generous discounts on accommodation.

Carrion, who took a pass on a run for mayor back in 2009, dropping down to the comptroller's race and then abandoning the city altogether for a job with the Obama administration, returned to the private sector last January.

A quick look at what's coming up at Monday night's Niagara Falls City Council meeting: - A public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on a proposal for the city to abandon an undeveloped portion of 76th Street, north of Niagara Falls BoulevCity Council meeting: - A public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on a proposal for the city to abandon an undeveloped portion of 76th Street, north of Niagara Falls Boulevcity to abandon an undeveloped portion of 76th Street, north of Niagara Falls Boulevard.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner (center) and Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler (left) stand in front of an abandoned house on the city's west side.

In a press release on April 11, Schneiderman announced that $ 20 million of funds from settlements with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley would be used «to provide local governments with innovative technology to address and transform problem properties — including homes and buildings that are blighted, poorly maintained, vacant, abandoned, and in financial distress — that fell into disrepair following the foreclosure crisis,» as part of a program called Cities for Responsible Investment and Strategic Enforcement, or Cities RISE.

In the past, the city was reluctant to foreclose on abandoned property until it had a ready buyer.

As such, CMRR President Ernie Hunt offered only passing praise on county executive Hein's announcement that the county had signed an agreement with New York City to tear up some 11 miles of abandoned tracks through the Ashokan Reservoir.

Separate analyses of documents from ancient Egypt — everything from inscriptions on monuments to tax records, poems, and letters — hint that eruptions may have contributed to social unrest, including riots, tensions between Egyptians and their Greek overlords, famines and plagues, and farmers abandoning their land and moving to the cities.

New York City's Highline Park, where native species have been planted on abandoned railway lines to create urban spaces where art, education and recreation intersect and are accessible to all, is an example of this.

LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Encouraging people to abandon their cars and use public transport or walk or cycle around cities offers the «least pain, most gain» way to cut air pollution from traffic by 2050, a new international study said on Wednesday.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

Subjects were approached on a street in an affluent Dutch city; in one case, the street was orderly, but in the other the same street had been made more disorderly by the removal of a few paving slabs and the addition of a badly parked car and an «abandoned» bicycle.

It is a gorgeous park built on abandoned train tracks above the city, it is simply stunning!

Away from the beautiful building of academia is a side of the city that is littered with trash and abandoned buildings and homeless people beg on the streets as police monitor the activity in the area for what their many street cameras can't detect.

In Agnieszka Holland's wrenching new film, «In Darkness,» based on a true story, a Polish Catholic sewer worker named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) and his younger sidekick, Szczepek (Krzysztof Skonieczny), discover a way of supplementing their income: they loot abandoned houses and sort through possessions dumped into the street; they store the goods in the city's sewers.

► A nearly abandoned city is full of crumbling skyscrapers and bombed out buildings with debris and trash strewn everywhere on the sidewalks and streets while government soldiers, including teen men and teen women, carry large rifles as they patrol the inner city.

Learning he has an infant son in the city from a previous passing - through, Glanton opts to abandon his travelling act and stay in town, mindful of the effect not having a father had on him.

Together, you'll embark on a journey of discovery, investigating strange incidents across Rhyme City, slinking through the runes of abandoned theme parks, sneaking into heavily guarded warehouses, and even sailing on luxury cruise liners as you retrace your father's footsteps, researching the last case he was on before his disappearance: a mysterious substance known as R.

The leader of the group is Jacob, played by Jackson Rathbone, a mysterious figure who brings the newcomer to their home at an abandon psychiatric hospital for children on the outskirts of the city.

During this seemingly simple ride through an abandoned city, Fresnadillo oh - so - slightly plays with your nerves, alternating between tight close ups on the kids and wide shots showing the desolate state of the area, utilizing every other perspective as a shot through the eyes of a rage - victim just ready to pounce.

From the rotten, abandon hovels to the bustling cities, the mist - soaked forests to the wind - whipped mountains, there is so much to see on The Continent.

MAY 25 CHERNOBYL DIARIES Starring: Jesse McCarthy and Olivia Dudley Directed by: Bradley Parker On an «extreme tour» of the abandoned city of Pripyat, where the former workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor lived, six tourists discover they are not alone.

Along the way to his revenge on these men under the employ of the city's most feared crime boss, Top Dollar (Wincott, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), Draven makes peace with a girl named Sarah (Davis, Hell House), who the now - deceased couple had taken in when he mother abandoned her for her drug and prostitution habit, and a detective on the case.