Sentences with phrase «other wealthy city»

The cost of living here is 1,364 percent higher than Texas as a state — a bigger difference than any other wealthy city on our list.

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Many of Darien's residents are wealthy business professionals that commute to Manhattan or other nearby cities for work.

However, the other 48 states are included — click through to find out which city is the wealthiest in your state.

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

There are many other traces of the Roman Empire to be found walking around the city including the Barrio del Foro Romano (the Roman baths) and the House of Fortuna which sadly was shut when we got there, it's a building that was once the home of a wealthy family dating back to 1AD.

On the other side: De Blasio and his allies, who had already planned to be in Albany Tuesday to rally for his ever - more - out - of - reach plan to let the city tax wealthy residents to expand pre-K and after school programs in the five boroughs.

New York City has a rental control system designed to prevent the wealthy from exploiting the poor (with mixed results) and many other places in the U.S. have affordable housing system that creates some stock of affordable priced, price controlled housing at the expense of developer who want to sell market priced housing.

A coalition of the NAACP and other groups is filing a class - action lawsuit arguing that the New York City property tax system is biased to make poorer, homeowners of color pay more than wealthier, whiter homeowners.

NEW YORK — An undercover FBI agent who snared Malcolm Smith and other politicians in a public corruption scandal posed as a wealthy investor of Indian descent named Raj who promised to grease wheels into City Hall and beyond, sources said.

«And I'm here to help uplift the voices of other people in this state and city that believe that he might not know about other communities of color because he lives very isolated up here in a very wealthy community,» said one person at the rally.

New York City's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York TiCity's comptroller Scott Stringer is criticizing the planned LinkNYC free Wi - Fi program, arguing that it will actually accentuate existing inequality by delivering the fastest service to the wealthiest (read: most advertising lucrative) neighborhoods years ahead of other parts of the city, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Ticity, reports Matt Flegenheimer for the New York Times.

But Quinn and others point to de Blasio's past statements about taxing the city's wealthy, particularly Wall Street, as a classic flip - flop.

Cuomo's surrogates argue he has delivered for progressives on other fronts, by brokering the passage of same - sex marriage, renewing most of a 2009 income tax surcharge on the wealthy and, after much back - and - forth with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, authorizing the money for an expansion of pre-kindergarten programs statewide.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / JeremyRichards Diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other afflictions that once primarily plagued wealthier, western countries are now accelerating in poorer nations.A new study reveals that risk factors for heart disease in Indian cities are now more prevalent than they are in the U.S.

Come to find out, there are wealthy men who get together in my city and throw «parties» to pass young girls (of age, I think) to each other.

Of course, the spectrum of career choices, paths and interests of the people of London differs hugely as with any other city in the UK but if you are a single professional looking for love, a graduate searching for romance, or a wealthy tycoon searching for The One, Dateinadash offers a fantastic array of speed dating events across the city to suit your needs.

In other words, what works in a large, wealthy Chinese city may not work here.

But if these same failing schools were located in Center City or Chestnut Hill, does anyone doubt that the wealthy residents of these neighborhoods would choose charters or any other better option for their children?

Wealthy philanthropists invested millions of dollars into their own playbook for reforms that spread to Newark and other cities, including Chicago: Close failing schools with low enrollment and test scores; create «charter schools» that get public money but are run by private groups; and move to a business model that makes fundamental changes in hiring, firing and evaluating teachers.

Other than one suburb of Portland, Ore., all of the wealthiest school districts are commuter towns of New York City, located in either Fairfield County, Conn., or Westchester County, N.Y..

The rapidly growing condo markets in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver have also raised concerns about an oversupply of units and whether the boom is overly weighted towards wealthy, foreign investors who lease the units to others.

After a week of watching kids huff glue and have seizures in the street, Ania and I decided to move to El Pobaldo, a wealthy neighborhood on the other side of the city.

The Whitney Museum, with its system of wealthy trustees and ties to the real estate industry perpetuates a model in which culture enhances the city and benefits the 1 % of our society while driving others into financial distress.

Emphasizing that the city is not just a theme park for the wealthy, Megawords works with artists in producing publications; non-profit, renegade, pop - up storefronts; and other urban interventions as a counterpoint to shop - til - you drop capitalist urbanism.

While New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago, among others, may appeal to aging suburbanites, smaller cities and metropolitan areas are also marketing themselves as magnets for urban professionals ages 65 to 74, or «suppies,» many of whom are still working and who tend to be healthier and wealthier than other older people.

After all, North Richland Hills is a safer and wealthier community than many other cities, particularly border towns, where homeowners rates are higher due to crime and potential exposure to crazy weather events blowing in off the Gulf.

When a city is wealthy, its residents have enough money to pay others to make things happen just because they don't want to be bothered, and that's the reason this delivery service indicates a new way to measure wealth.

Wealthy Chinese are pouring money into real estate in New York and some other major cities around the world, including London and Sydney, as...