Sentences with phrase «other city elected officials»

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In a press conference later on Friday, however, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine expressed frustration with Scott and the state's health department for keeping him and other elected officials in the dark about the island - city's five locally transmitted Zika cases.

Parks and other city buildings are usually designed by city employees and elected officials.

A day after he and other elected officials who represent lower Manhattan wrote to Mayor Bloomberg about the conditions at Zuccotti Park, the city has decided to remove barricades that surrounded Wall and Broad streets — a move they applauded today.

At noon, NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and other elected officials and advocates announce the reintroduction of two bills related to Hart Island, City Hall Park, Manhattan.

At 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Mark Treyger is joined by other elected officials and advocates to call for free diapers for low - income families, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson, New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. and other elected officials rally for the inclusion of the Fair Fares proposal in the fiscal 2019 New York City budget, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on BP Adams and other elected officials demanding the City stop dredging at a trash plant site in Gravesend.

The highlight each year is the mayor's performance, which serves as a rebuttal of sorts to the reporters» show, which opens the night by skewering the mayor and other city and state elected officials.

«When we allow for the editorials in New York City to tell our story, when we allow for columnists and other individuals and elected officials who honestly are doing a disservice to their community by not understanding election law,... [to be] going out there and blasting the hardworking men and women at the Board of Elections, we think it's appalling,» he argued.

He was the city's first Dominican - American elected official and won an eight - way primary, defeating, among others, Ydanis Rodriquez, who now holds Linares» old seat.

«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an elected New York City official in exchange for efforts by that official... and other City officials to obtain action from a New York City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»

And, earlier this month, Senator Kavanagh, Assemblymember Simon, City Comptroller Stringer, City Council Speaker Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Adams and other elected officials joined the DOT and DDC Commissioners, business leaders, and community members to rally for BQE design - build.

In a letter to Tom Allon, the president of City & State, Sen. Espaillat, joined by a number of other Latino elected officials, demanded that Airbnb be dropped as a SOMOS co-sponsor, claiming that the internet home - share middleman «exacerbates the housing crisis plaguing our communities... particularly the communities we represent.»

Cuomo last week suggested the other elected officials — county governments and New York City — need to spend more to fix the problem.

Riders Alliance spokesman Danny Pearlstein said the plan is «enormously popular» and has broad support from City Council members and other elected officials.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

Local Law 28 requires City department and agency «advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities» but it does not include elected officials or Community Boards.

In the past few months Principal Nancy Sing - Bock wrote a request to the city council for relocation, prompting Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other elected officials to write a relocation request to Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

But Mr. Meeks is not totally alone in his support of the trade deal — though few other elected officials in New York have joined him in supporting it, the Kathryn Wylde, president of the business group Partnership for New York City, urged the Council not to pass its resolution in testimony today.

Time and time again I, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, and so many other elected officials have proven that this legislation is cost - effective for the City and State.

She said Tuesday that she would consider paying a visit to the protest site, which has attracted other elected officials ranging from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to City Councilmembers to Borough President Scott Stringer.

At the same time, Diaz, other elected officials (city, state and federal) and local Bronx residents have blasted the shelter plan, saying the Wakefield is already over-burdened with supportive housing.

While other elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Sharpton, Cuomo participated by phone.

I've got to prove myself to the other elected officials in this community and in this city, just like I do the voters,» Weiner said.

He knows the difference it makes to unite action at the local, state and federal levels, and why it is important to build strength among City Council members and other local elected officials.»

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., Senator Joseph A. Griffo, Senator David Valesky, Member of Assembly Claudia Tenney, Marcy Supervisor Brian Scala, and City of Rome Mayor James F. Brown joined leaders and members of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association and other local elected officials today to announce that they are assembling a strategy to show state government that the four state prisons located in Oneida County are cost - effective and should be kept open.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and other female elected officials gathered at City Hall Thursday evening for a women - for - Reynoso rally.

Holmquist will lead a legislative sub-committee which will include outside elected officials from the city of Syracuse and other towns and villages to study the recommendations.

So insists a collective of elected officials, including City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, City Council Immigration Committee Chair Carlos Menchaca, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and numerous other Councilmembers, who issued a letter to New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, urging her to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from New York State courts.

Governor Cuomo, his democratic running mate Kathy Hochul and other women's rights advocates spoke to a cheering crowd of union members and local elected officials, as part of a three city upstate bus tour to promote a 10 point women's rights plan.

In her statement, Farias claimed district residents are tired of seeing other areas of the Bronx and throughout this city prosper while our area remains stagnant due to a lack of vision and initiative from local elected officials who only care about themselves and not the people they represent.

Elected officials, including Borough President Scott Stringer, New York State Senator Adrian Espaillat, and New York City Councilmember Robert Jackson, among others, stopped by to express their support.

Cuomo arrived Wednesday evening and held a dinner meeting with Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla and other elected officials, including New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, and Letitia James, the city's Public AdvocCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico, and Letitia James, the city's Public Advoccity's Public Advocate.

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta, Rep. Joseph Crowley and other elected officials will be joined by immigrant rights advocates and immigrants to rally in support of Peralta's bill to provide undocumented New Yorkers access to drivers licenses, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

While many elected officials aspire to assume higher office one day, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is heading in the other direction, at least for now.

At 1 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater NY, other elected officials, and construction workers and advocates rally to demand greater safety measures on construction sites across New York City, Broadway and Barclay Street at City Hall Park, Manhattan.

Also at 1 p.m., Reps. Nydia Velázquez and Hakeem Jeffries, Brooklyn BP Eric Adams, Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson, gun control advocates, and other elected officials, announces new legislation aimed at reducing the number of guns on New York streets and stemming gun violence nationwide, steps of City Hall, Manhattan.

At 2 p.m., de Blasio, Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks, NYPD Commissioner William Bratton, NYC district attorneys, other law enforcement officials, advocates and elected officials will host a press conference to make an announcement on public safety, Blue Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

Though they may not always see eye - to - eye, Ignizio and other Staten Island elected officials have continued to praise the city's progress on recovery and resiliency after Hurricane Sandy.

The senator, along with representatives from city agencies and the offices of other elected officials, gathered on Rutgers Street (near Madison Street) to watch as the final slabs of concrete were poured.

It is my opinion that in the Bronx, New York City and throughout New York State folks of all ideologies, political party, socio - economic level and demographics are with a Comptroller who is independent and ever mindful that he is caretaker for the NYS pensions, our revenue, the economy of our great state and a role often overlooked the person who watches for corruption by elected officials, corporations, contractors and others who commit malfeasances.

Both versions contain financial disclosure provisions which require elected officials and high - ranking city employees to reveal their own and close family members» ownership of property, stocks and other financial interests.

We reached out to the remaining members of The Mount Vernon City Council, Council President Roberta Apuzzo (D), Acting President Pro Tem, Marcus A. Griffith (D), and Deborah Reynolds (D) as well as The Commissioner of the Westchester Board of Election and Westchester Democratic Chairman, Reggie Lafayette (who I believe is also Mt. Vernon Democratic Chairman as well - sound like a conflict of interest to me, but I digress) and other local elected officials who have yet to respond to our request for a comment.

City Councilwoman Jessica Lappin, Assemblymen Dan Quart and Micah Kellner, and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, among other area elected officials, have asked the DOE to reconsider the plan before the Panel for Education Policy votes on the issue June 19.

MIDLAND BEACH — Two years after Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York, devastating Staten Island and other waterfront areas, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood with other elected officials to tout the progress on recovery work around the city.

Bronx Community Board No. 8 plays an important role in improving the quality of life for the communities it serves and in advocating with New York City government and elected officials for municipal service delivery, land use and zoning issues, business development, the City budget and other matters relating to the community's health, safety and welfare.

Stringer and other elected officials said Sunday that the city should exempt the NYPD from funding cuts, as has sometimes happened in the past.

The decision is a stunning blow for Bloomberg, who has repeatedly defended his choice amid intense criticism from parents groups, elected officials and other advocates who said the city needs a schools chancellor with a background in schools.