Sentences with phrase «problems in upstate cities»

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But state Republican Chairman Ed Cox said the race will be a referendum on Cuomo, and said persistent problems with the New York City subways, uneven economic recovery in upstate areas and ongoing corruption trials involving Cuomo's close confidants are all working in the GOP's favor.

Though one can go back and forth on what Eliot Spitzer knows — or doesn't know — about Appalachian Albany, his time spent in the walled city of downtown has obviously convinced him the answer to upstate's economic problems is taxpayer jacked real estate.

So you have no problems with upstate TEAPub Senators making DeBlasio and NYC into the bogeyman at campaign time while taking huge piles of NY City real estate / developer money to assure they screw over renters in the five boroughs?

As the mayor has pointed out many times before, other upstate cities get much more funding, a problem exacerbated by the fact that a majority of property in Albany is tax - exempt.

«The way Zephyr Teachout, who spent a miniscule amount of money, ran at Cuomo was by doing very well upstate and having problems in the city itself,» Hyers told POLITICO.

Troy's mayor told city officials the upstate city's budget problems won't get any better in 2017, making services difficult to pay for.

The aging infrastructure across upstate New York has created another problem in the city of Syracuse: sinkholes in the streets.

Albany receives far less per capita in state aid than other upstate cities with similar social and economic problems, city officials have argued.