Sentences with phrase «outer city boroughs»

I was born and raised in the outer city boroughs, yet I haven't done most of the tourist - y things; you've definitely inspired me:) Thanks so much for sharing and I hope you're having a great week so far!

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In addition to expanding taxi service to the city's outer boroughs, it would also add 1,500 yellow cab medallion licenses.

The boroughs are Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster (sometimes referred to as the «inner London boroughs»); and Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston - upon - Thames, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton and Waltham Forest (the «outer London boroughs»).

«It's traditionally been difficult for [outer - borough candidates] because the city's elite and the media has primarily focused on Manhattan candidates,» said Doug Muzzio, a political - science professor at Baruch College.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has insisted that congestion pricing in New York City would be too burdensome on outer - borough car owners — though a new analysis suggests otherwise.

Tolls would be charged to use the city's East River bridges while reducing existing tolls on outer - borough bridges.

The majority of outer - borough residents take mass transit to their jobs, with 31 percent going into Manhattan and another 25 percent to other areas of the city.

In the first phase, which would begin this year, the city and state would launch transportation improvements designed to ease outer - borough access into Manhattan on mass transit, thereby reducing the pain for drivers who will soon be subject to tolls.

Five of the six recommendations for making those early mass transit improvements rely in whole or in part on New York City: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer borouCity: overhauling the city's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroucity's parking placard system, which de Blasio has expanded; improving traffic enforcement in New York City, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer borouCity, which his NYPD controls; reforming the city system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroucity system that governs taxis and for - hire companies like Uber; assessing the impact of bus congestion on the central business district; and identifying transit improvements in the outer boroughs.

«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.

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.

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

Marco A. Carrión will lead the Mayor's Community Affairs Unit, connecting City Hall to communities across the city, especially in the outer borouCity Hall to communities across the city, especially in the outer boroucity, especially in the outer boroughs.

Look for the campaigns to focus on places in New York with the most Republicans: Long Island, New York City's northern suburbs, the outer boroughs, and the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

In his first year, Cuomo shepherded through the legalization of same - sex marriage, flouted protesters who had dubbed him «Governor One Percent» by passing tax reforms that increase taxes on the rich, and laid the political groundwork for a brand new convention center to be built in one of New York City's outer boroughs — all largely outside of the public eye.

«I'm really excited to introduce this man who is outer - borough working dad, a public school parent, a lifelong progressive reformer and a leader who champions New York as a city of neighborhoods and families,» she said.

The study shows that only a small fraction of people living in the outer boroughs of New York City would find their commutes affected by the toll: four percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two percent of working poor.

Downstate economic growth has been highly dependent on Wall Street, and many residents of New York City's outer boroughs are still struggling.

The city's use of Manhattan hotels shot up 58 percent in the last year as bookings expanded from the outer boroughs to prime tourist destinations in Midtown and Soho.

But that push, which is meant to drive construction deeper into the outer boroughs, will also require the use of city, state and federal subsides to ensure developers are willing to build in some neighborhoods.

In the end, his margins were particularly high in Erie County, where his running mate Kathy Hochul has her home base, and in the outer boroughs of New York City, where he had backing from the county organizations.

At 10 a.m., a new report will show black and Latino homeowners in the outer NYC boroughs remain in the grips of the foreclosure crisis because the value of their homes is less than the outstanding balance on their mortgages; Council members will call on the city to use eminent domain to seize «toxic» mortgage and modify them, City Hall steps, Manhatcity to use eminent domain to seize «toxic» mortgage and modify them, City Hall steps, ManhatCity Hall steps, Manhattan.

The places Cuomo doesn't visit too frequently include the city's outer boroughs.

The New York Gaming Association, which believes Gov. Andrew Cuomo's casino expansion proposal would put its members at a competitive disadvantage, has commissioned a poll that finds voters aren't big on the governor's Plan B if the Legislature fails to pass his gaming bill: Expand VLTs across the state, including in New York City's outer boroughs.

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.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis by a transit - advocacy group.

The mayor — who ran on the promise of representing the outer boroughs — opted to sign his first bill at a Brooklyn ice cream manufacturer, rather than the City Hall Blue Room, where bills are often signed.

«Though the bike sharing program has been a runaway success in some parts of the city, it has also left the outer boroughs and many low - income neighborhoods significantly underrepresented,» said Council Member Mark Levine, in a press release.

The city unveiled the color of the new taxicab for the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan this past Sun., Apr. 29th at a morning press conference at City Hall Plaza that featured a Prius model painted in what Mayor Michael Bloomberg called, «green apple.&racity unveiled the color of the new taxicab for the outer boroughs and northern Manhattan this past Sun., Apr. 29th at a morning press conference at City Hall Plaza that featured a Prius model painted in what Mayor Michael Bloomberg called, «green apple.&raCity Hall Plaza that featured a Prius model painted in what Mayor Michael Bloomberg called, «green apple.»

The city will sell 18,000 outer - borough livery hail licenses which will permit drivers to pick up street hails in northern Manhattan and the four other boroughs.

The Democratic governor has glibly dismissed earlier forms of congestion pricing for their lack of political support in the city's suburbs and outer boroughs.

«Somebody has to speak for the millions of outer - borough, middle class homeowners that are lately placed on the back burner of city policy.»

Asking for a fare increase as city officials are trying to get a new class of cab in the outer boroughs isn't playing hardball, Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, told Gotham Gazette today.

A proposal to charge motorists a fee to enter congested parts of Manhattan would only affect a small portion of commuters from New York City's outer boroughs and suburbs, according to an analysis published Tuesday by a transit - advocacy group.

The Department of City Planning is looking to change parking and other zoning rules to encourage commercial development in the outer boroughs.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in his State of the City speech in January he would propose legislation to allow livery cabs in the outer boroughs to pick up people hailing on the street — prohibited under current law.

At campaign events, he frequently describes what he calls a «tale of two cities,» and is expected to do well among outer - borough voters frustrated by what some feel has been a Manhattan - centric approach by the current administration.

With Cuomo's strong connections to organized labor, Democratic moderates upstate, and Latinos, ethnic Catholics and Orthodox Jews in New York City's outer boroughs, it's highly unlikely that Nixon can beat Cuomo.

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.

I'm a Brooklynite; I believe the city government during the Bloomberg years became less and less fair to the outer boroughs... I think I've made clear what it looks like to have a five - borough government that respects every borough.»

Opponents gathered at the foot of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City said Move NY burdens middle - class residents in the outer boroughs as well as small businesses.

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.

He also accused the administration of focusing too heavily on building the city as a luxury brand while turning a «blind eye» to small manufacturers, especially in the outer boroughs.

City Hall this week introduced a land use application that would require new self - storage facilities to acquire special permits in certain parts of manufacturing districts in the outer boroughs, a move largely seen as tantamount to a ban on the business, which is acutely undersupplied in the five boroughs.

Regional Investments to Move New York City Forward - Investments in New York City's outer boroughs - $ 50 million investment in the Montefiore Health System - Transform health and wellness in Brooklyn through measures such as affordable housing with «features such as exercise rooms, rooftop gardens, and health clinics,» the expansion of New York's Land Bank Program, and the establishment of «Brooklyn as a primary location for the FreshConnect Mobile Markets and FreshConnect Checks program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.»

While many of the governor's proposals were known before he gave his address, unveiled over the last week in news conferences and press releases, among the new announcements were a number of New York City - specific initiatives, including several aimed at boosting each of the «outer boroughs.»

But the storm and the recovery illuminate what's sure to be one of the central cleavages in the campaign for City Hall: Between De Blasio and Christine Quinn, between the outer - boroughs and Manhattan, and between those who think Mike Bloomberg's been an excellent mayor and those who don't.

Mayor Bloomberg is circumventing the City Council by seeking state legislation to address the issue of livery cabs in the outer - boroughs.

When it comes to leasing volume for industrial space in New York City's outer boroughs, UPS is delivering.

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.