Sentences with phrase «on upstate roads»

Cuomo has pledged to spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges over the next five years and has proposed a $ 1 billion plan to freeze tolls on the state Thruway.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

-- Plus, and update on upstate roads and bridges.

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She may have angered her upstate bretheren, but she is positioned just where she wants to be, like a vulture sitting on a line waiting for road kill.

While upstate New York waits for the Gaming Commission to approve up to four casinos, anti-casino group Save East Greenbush has released the results of an Election Day exit poll that asked voters how they felt about a gaming hall going up on Thompson Hill Road.

More than two - thirds of voters think New York should fund both downstate mass transit and upstate roads, for similar amounts, although there is less agreement on how to fund infrastructure spending.

The 2002 deal gave the Senecas an exclusive right to operate casino gambling in a sprawling area of upstate: all land to the west of Route 14, a state road that runs from Sodus Point on Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border just south of Elmira.

While they may disagree on many policy issues Miner and DeFrancisco agreed on the need to invest in aging infrastructure such as pipes and roads and faulted Cuomo's efforts to boost the upstate economy, which include tax breaks for start - up companies and competitive regional economic development awards.

His plans call for improvements at the MTA, an overhaul of Pennsylvania Station, a new LaGuardia Airport, a third track on the Long Island Rail Road, an expansion of the Jacob Javits Center, major upgrades to John F. Kennedy Airport as well as to air terminals in Long Island and the Hudson Valley — all on top of new roads and bridges across upstate «like we've never built before.»

Currying favor with Dadey, who also happens to hold the No. 2 post in the state GOP, might the first step for Flanagan on the road to making peace with upstate GOPers — both local party leaders and grassroots activists.

Their vision of parity is the state agreeing to spend an equal amount of money on upstate and Long Island roads and bridges.

The changes — primarily aimed at the two nonprofits that SUNY Poly operated called Fuller Road Management Corp. and Fort Schuyler Management Corp. — come less than two months after SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros was arrested Sept. 22 on state and federal bid rigging and corruption charges involving several upstate developers and two former Cuomo aides and family friends, Joe Percoco and Todd Howe.

State police say a sheriff's deputy for an upstate New York county has died in a one - car on - duty crash on a road in the Catskills.

Despite strong opposition from upstate business groups, the Farm Bureau, and not - for - profit organizations — as well as his own deputy Senate leader and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox — Flanagan has signaled he is ready «to cut a deal on the $ 15 minimum with Cuomo, likely for a longer phase - in time so that he can claim the Legislature will revisit the issue down the road,» said the source.

Future increases on the road to $ 15 for upstate workers will depend upon approval of the state Budget Director, who will make a determination based on economic trends.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about issues regarding free college tuition at SUNY / CUNY schools, a teenager who fell down an open manhole into an upstate sewer system, and the impact of winter road salt on area lakes and water resources.

The Fuller Road board does not appear to have met since early August, while the Fort Schuyler board last met on Sept. 13 — two days before Destito's departure, and nine days before the unveiling of a federal criminal complaint against former SUNY Poly president and CEO Alain Kaloyeros, former top Cuomo aide Joe Percoco and six upstate development executives.

Shelly Callahan, who runs the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees, looked in on a class of refugees studying one of the most mysterious of skills: how to drive on icy roads in upstate New York.

HARLEM — When people taste the collard greens, potatoes or carrots delivered by upstate New York's Corbin Hill Road Farm for the first time, founder Dennis Deryck often recognizes the confused look on people's faces.

The gang instantly hit it off once more and start on an amusing underdog road trip, where they, in some perverted reinvention of the Pitch Perfect series, head upstate to try and be the best stripper team in the world.

On a 1,400 - mile road trip across Pennsylvania, into upstate New York, and through the streets of Brooklyn, our Four Seasons 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost was a one - of - a-kind delight for me and everyone who crossed my path.

The drive upstate took me on some long, sweeping roads, and this is where the TRD Pro was able to stretch its legs.

Together with their stepmother, Barbra, they embark on a cross-country road trip from their foreclosed Bel - Air home to the upstate New York hideout of the eldest daughter, disgraced art world it - girl Saina.

The artist and her assistant worked on - site for more than a week to install the work, the title of which is inspired by a wooded road that runs along the Hudson River near Bard College in upstate New York.

A small town in upstate New York rallies in the face of environmental disaster I was away from home on Aug. 29, 2011, when Hurricane Irene cut a devastating path inland through New York state and into Vermont, leaving a deep, impassable ditch across my road, south of Woodstock, N.Y..

Whether you're riding your motorcycle through the bustling streets of Manhattan or on the open country roads upstate, you need motorcycle insurance coverage that you can rely on.