Sentences with phrase «outer boroughs»

But his campaign will emphasize the middle class, which is often a code phrase for outer borough residents.

«This is substantial, as many outer borough neighborhoods that lack historic district designation, but enjoy contextual zoning, will be at risk due to this increase,» they wrote.

It's much worse in the so - called outer boroughs.

The London Assembly's report «Hostile Streets — Walking and Cycling at Outer London Junctions» says that some roads in outer boroughs do not offer even a basic level of service, with crossings inaccessible to wheelchairs and incomplete cycle lanes that push cyclists out into fast moving traffic.

Cuomo noted only about 5 percent of outer borough residents drive into Manhattan, with the vast majority of commuters taking mass transit.

Unlike the last serious attempt to toll the East River bridges, under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Schwartz has made a concerted effort to win outer - borough and suburban support by promising to lower tolls on outer borough bridges and invest capital dollars there.

We must also find a way to reduce the costs for outer borough bridges in any plan ultimately passed.»

So, what's an aspiring outer borough Democrat with big dreams to do?

And investments will flow to the city's outer boroughs with a plan to invest in the long - delayed plan to turn the Kingsbridge Armory into an ice sports center.

The break for New York City developers expired at the beginning of 2016, and Senate Republicans had backed budget language that would both renew the program and expand it into outer borough condos, a move seemingly designed to benefit breakaway Democrat Simcha Felder.

This weekend two of my favorite people visited New York and we took a trip to a beloved outer borough where Amish - style hats are on the list of immediately accepted trends along with dreadlocks, fedoras and flannels.

Jon Weinstein, a spokesman for Cuomo, assured that any congestion pricing plan that's introduced would have a limited impact on outer borough residents.

Nor does the plan call for lowering existing tolls on bridges between outer boroughs, something that was crucial to the outer - borough argument for the Move NY plan.

A group of outer borough lawmakers gathered in Brooklyn today to unveil a bill to stop the city's recently passed plan to levy a five - cent surcharge on paper and plastic bags.

He knows how to appeal to the anger there is, especially among ethnic blue - collar workers about the state of the economy and playing outer borough against Manhattan.

«A lot of the issues that we face on Staten Island are shared by other outer boroughs.»

The new revenue would be used to lower tolls on outer borough crossings like the Bronx - Whitestone Bridge, Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and Verrazano - Narrows Bridge.

A judge's ruling blocking Mayor Bloomberg's outer borough taxi plan has thrown the NYC budget into flux with just two weeks remaining until the end of the fiscal year.

In the few pockets where Mr. de Blasio struggled in the low turnout general election last year, white, outer borough ethnic voters — traditionally the most politically conservative — dominated.

In the Council, it faces opposition from conservative - leaning outer borough Democrats, the three - member Republican conference and from Brooklyn Councilman Rafael Espinal, whose district contains warehouses that store and distribute plastic bags.

For instance, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — who is targeting same sorts of progressive activist and outer borough voters that Mr. Weiner could be aiming for — said his strategy wouldn't be altered by a Weiner candidacy.

Fresh off the city's defeat for the 2016 Democratic National Convention, former Brooklyn BP Marty Markowitz, who now promotes outer borough tourism, said he's already banking on 2020.

It didn't help that Mr. de Blasio was a past opponent of congestion pricing and outer borough green cabs.

Imagine a woman in one of New York's outer boroughs making samosas in her kitchen, says Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen: «They're the best samosas in the neighborhood, but she doesn't know how to take it to the next level.»

Schwartz has taken care to address the concerns of outer borough drivers about East River tolls in an effort to avoid the political uproar that caused a previous congestion pricing scheme — backed heavily by then - mayor Michael Bloomberg — to sink in the Albany morass.

Schwartz has, in fact, garnered a good deal more support from the same outer borough leaders and driver advocates that either rejected former mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing bid or stayed on the sidelines, including the New York State Motor Truck Association, the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, and Councilman Weprin.

Giuliani could help Turner with his so - called Pataki strategy, since his popularity arguably remains highest in NYC — particularly among conservative / Orthodox Jewish voters and outer borough Republicans.

Such a bid would make him the third white outer borough Democrat seeking to unseat the liberal mayor, as Queens State Senator Tony Avella and former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese have already launched their own campaigns.

State Assembly member David Weprin told the New York Times that the report didn't take into account how outer borough commuters would need to make their way into the congestion zone to run errands or the fact these drivers also have to shell out money on parking and gas.

In seeking the post, the NYPD officer's son had touted his blue collar outer borough roots, and argued his experiences could help the delegation reconnect with the working class voters who supported Trump on Election Day.

And it probably complicates Chris Quinn's attempt to get outer borough votes,» pundit Bill Cunningham said.

Investors are increasingly interested in acquiring property in Staten Island, where land costs are a sliver of those in Manhattan and many outer boroughs neighborhoods.

The bill allows up to 30,000 permits costing $ 1,500 each for livery drivers to pick up street hails in the underserved outer boroughs and parts of upper Manhattan.

Rivals, in particular Dan Garodnick, enjoyed tighter bonds with colleagues and the implicit tolerance of the large, outer borough Democratic machines that traditionally control the selection process.

To keep unfair taxes out of outer borough Uber trips, we need your help.

He leaves the Democratic field to de Blasio, former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese — another conservative - tilting outer borough Democrat — and police reform activist Robert Gangi.

While Hudson Yards and Essex Crossing continue to inch forward in Manhattan, it's the booming outer boroughs that will see many of the most ambitious... [more]

Brooklyn and the other outer boroughs saw jobs numbers jump from 1,353,642 in December 2013 to 1,440,033 in June 2015.

Though he was a Long Island guy, Mr. DiNapoli was an adopted son of this former outer borough, at least for the day, for the good news he was bringing: economic growth in Downtown Brooklyn had outpaced the rest of the city over the past decade, according to a new report prepared by the comptroller's office.

More directly relevant to him, he said, de Blasio did a good job of plowing the streets in outer boroughs after major snow storms — something Bloomberg did not.

«But, as a born and raised Queens boy, I have outer borough blood in my veins, and it is my priority that we keep costs down for hard - working New Yorkers, and encourage use of mass transit.

He then launched into a list of what he called political victories for the Bronx: half - a-billion dollars worth of housing construction during the recession, a recent education summit and a new law that allows outer borough residents to hail livery cabs.

Mr. Smith warned the crowd that the accusations are part of a plot to eliminate a powerful black outer borough politician and target his district for real estate development and racial displacement.

The leafy outer borough district, according to the New York City Districting Commission, is 14 percent Hispanic, 32 percent white and 37 percent Asian, which includes residents of Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi descent.

Brooklyn's Finest (R for nudity, graphic sexuality, pervasive profanity, drug use and gory violence) Gritty, NYC crime saga, directed by Antoine Fuqua, about three NYPD cops (Don Cheadle, Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke) stationed in three different outer boroughs whose paths cross serendipitously while working the same case.

Like me, she survived a tough childhood in a New York outer borough (mine was the Bronx), found salvation in the library, and went on to become the first member of her family to attend college.

Using a now - signature method in which he lays oil paint onto glass panes in order to subsequently peel off their «skins,» the artist then devised a way to reattach his flayed sheets onto waiting canvases — thereby crafting finished works that look partly like spontaneous 1950s abstractions (of the Art Informel variety), but also like torn, graffitied posters found in outer borough subway tunnels.