Revenue from free, advertising -
supported services which Spotify uses to woo new listeners to the service in order to eventually
convert them to paying members, grew to 102 million euros in the first quarter, up 38
percent, year - over year.
The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two
percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient
support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to
convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.
In order to
convert an existing public school to a charter school, the school must demonstrate the
support of at least 50
percent of the teachers employed at the school and 50
percent of the parents whose children are enrolled at the school.