Sentences with phrase «percent go to the city»

Around 68 percent of these tourists travel for pleasure or vacation and some 15 percent go to the city for business, professional work or investment.

Not exact matches

On such sales, the city would collect either $ 61.49 a square foot or 20 percent of the total cost of the air rights, whichever is higher, to go into an account to fund pedestrian and transit improvements for the area.

A recent survey from real estate site StreetEasy found that in New York City, millennials are more likely than other generations to go overspend, with 45 percent saying they exceeded their initial budget on their current (rented or purchased) home.

In addition, the 30 percent tariffs are going to make it more expensive for cities across the country to pursue their goal of promoting solar power as a way to curb carbon pollution.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

Ninety percent of the students in the parochial schools of the city — drawn from the same population — go on to college or technical training for a real job.

As in years past, the charity component is an important part of the New York festival, with 100 percent of the net proceeds going to the New York Food Bank for New York City and Share our Strength — two benefit partners.

It is still very early days of course, and we have seen from the recent troubles of Man City after a 100 percent start how quickly things can change, but at the minute it looks as though Arsenal and Manchester United are going to be there or thereabouts when the Premier League trophy is handed out in May.

When I was in my early twenties, it was about waiting until after Christmas to buy a velvet dress at Kohl's for 60 percent off, plan with your friends to go into the city to Excalibur but actually stay in the suburbs and go to WhirlyBall because OMG, THE CITY IS EXPENSIVE ON NEW YEARS EVE WHEN YOU ARE 23 AND WORK IN RETAIL.

«The fact that it supplies about 25 percent of the power to the city of New York amongst other places, it shows us there's going to have to be a real plan on how you're going to have make up that kind of generation,» said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

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.

At the moment, 16 percent of annual MTA spending goes toward paying off debt — a «dangerous situation,» according to Kate Slevin, vice president of state programs and advocacy at the Regional Plan Association, a planning nonprofit that has long supported congestion pricing in the city.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner has cut the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency by nearly 20 percent in the past year, responding to criticism that the renewal agency has long been misused to hire city workers without going through civil service.

According to unofficial election night totals from the New York City Board of Elections, Vance received more than 90 percent of votes, with just under 10 percent of votes going to candidates on write - in ballots, which are still being counted.

The report, which Stringer plans to make public Monday, also revealed that the average daily cost for commercial hotel bookings for the city's homeless skyrocketed a whopping 600 percent over 16 months — going from $ 82,214 per day in November 2015 to $ 576,203 in February 2017.

Rochester City School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school last year.

Nearly half the city — 49 percent — thinks New York is going in the wrong direction, according to the poll.

Of REBNY's political contributions, over 73 percent have gone to state candidates outside of New York City.

Industry profits down by half from prior year but security industry salaries still went up Cash bonuses paid to New York City securities industry employees are forecast to decline by 14 percent to $ 19.7 billion during this year's bonus season, according to an estimate released this week by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

Nonetheless, property tax bills have certainly been going up in the five boroughs: the city's tax levy increased by 5.7 percent in 2014 and 6 percent in 2015, according to the mayor's office.

«If City Hall is going to cap the income side of the equation at 1 percent, there must be an equitable 1 percent cap on the expense side — particularly on city - mandated expenses,» Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, said in a statemCity Hall is going to cap the income side of the equation at 1 percent, there must be an equitable 1 percent cap on the expense side — particularly on city - mandated expenses,» Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, said in a statemcity - mandated expenses,» Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, said in a statement.

De Blasio says New York City is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increCity is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increcity in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increase.

«Mr. Stringer completely overlooks the 44 percent of city subcontracts going to M / WBEs,» Jessica Ramos, a spokeswoman for the mayor's office, said.

Only 70,000 GOP voters — less than 20 percent of New York City's 470,000 registered Republicans — are expected to go to the polls for the Sept. 10 primary.

Of the county's 8.75 percent sales tax rate, 4 percent goes to the state, and the remaining 4.75 percent is divided up among the county and its cities, towns and villages using a formula that depends on various factors including where the purchases are made.

He noted during a recent Association for a Better New York breakfast that the city spends $ 14 billion on goods and services but only 5.3 percent of it went to MWBEs.

It's going to come as no surprise that the city's priciest properties are in Manhattan, but a new study shows the borough accounted for fully 86 percent of all home sales for more than $ 2 million over the past three years.

The goal of SVRD is not just to getting more young voters registered, but to actually get them to the voting booth — according to the city's Board of Elections, only 11 percent of registered voters 18 to 29 years old went to the polls in the 2013 mayoral election.

He said that was even less than what he reported at the Association for a Better New York breakfast last month — that only 5.3 percent of $ 14 billion the city spent on goods and services went to MWBEs.

The state law covering the city's share of casino revenue requires 26.5 percent off the top go to local agencies and organizations such as Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and Niagara Falls International Airport.

He also said contracts went to MWBEs 14 percent of the time, up from eight percent the prior year and that the city is «well on our way» to giving out 30 percent of the value of its contracts to MWBEs.

The Bloomberg administration's plan to give more city contracts to firms owned by women and minorities resulted in just 7 percent of revenue going to black - owned companies, the Wall Street Journal reports, while the bulk went to companies owned by Asian - Americans or white women.

In his State of the City speech Bloomberg said pension costs for all city employees — not just teachers — have increased 360 percent since he became mayor in 2002 and calculated that if the subway fare had increased a similar amount, it would now cost straphangers $ 7.05 — each way — to go to wCity speech Bloomberg said pension costs for all city employees — not just teachers — have increased 360 percent since he became mayor in 2002 and calculated that if the subway fare had increased a similar amount, it would now cost straphangers $ 7.05 — each way — to go to wcity employees — not just teachers — have increased 360 percent since he became mayor in 2002 and calculated that if the subway fare had increased a similar amount, it would now cost straphangers $ 7.05 — each way — to go to work.

Stringer estimated that 57 percent of renters with credit history across the city could boost their score by up to 10 points under the program, and 19 percent could see it go up even higher.

Identifying poverty and a race - wide issue, not just affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the communcity or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the communCity of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the community.

She went on to win the primary with just 35 percent of the vote — the lowest by any incumbent in the city.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged for the city to go 100 percent renewable before 2050, but even with that much longer timeline, implementing that plan will present significant challenCity Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged for the city to go 100 percent renewable before 2050, but even with that much longer timeline, implementing that plan will present significant challencity to go 100 percent renewable before 2050, but even with that much longer timeline, implementing that plan will present significant challenges.

With just seven dissenters, City Council members on Friday went above the recommendations of a salary commission to award themselves a 32 percent raise — to $ 148,500.

The bill references City Comptroller Scott Stringer's most recent annual MWBE report card that found that in fiscal year 2016, the city spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York CCity Comptroller Scott Stringer's most recent annual MWBE report card that found that in fiscal year 2016, the city spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York Ccity spent $ 15.3 billion on goods and services but only 4.8 percent went to MWBEs — which make up 51 percent of all businesses in New York CityCity.

A recent survey found that about 10 percent of a group who went for genetic counseling in New York City expressed interest in screening for tall stature and that some 13 percent said they would be willing to test for superior intelligence.

Sixty percent of the world's population will likely live in cities by the year 2030, so models like Aerofarms that grow food for urbanites using less land and less transportation are only going to become more important.

While a mere 5.6 percent of adults went to the polls, more than 40 percent of the city's public - school students took advantage of the rare opportunity to fulfill their civic duties.

An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

And they can point to the data here which show that students who attend higher income city high schools, on average, are 37 percent more likely to go straight to college than a student from a low income high school.

For the 80 percent of city schools that are still using the math curriculum the city mandated in 2003, the Common Core is going to mean radical changes, he said.

It's not uncommon for some urban school teachers to make this logical decision, but Philadelphia has the HIGHEST percent of teachers» offspring going to private school of any major city in the nation.

That money is now going to programs designed to help keep kids from dropping out in the first place, an urgent priority in a city with a minority dropout rate of over 50 percent.

In 2005, only 12 percent of city schools were rated A or B and 75 percent earned an F. By 2013, 34 percent of schools earned an A or B while only 17 percent earned an F. From 2004 to 2012, the New Orleans graduation rate has gone from 54 percent to 78 percent — surpassing the state average.