Sentences with phrase «public area of the city»

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When he first made his venture public in 2002, it was still just an idea, and he insisted it was contingent upon the construction of a bridge to replace the island airport's existing ferry service — a project with many detractors, including then city councillor Olivia Chow, now the area's NDP member of Parliament.

The breakdown of the New York metro area's public transit system is sure to cause a city - wide headache, leaving roughly 600,000 commuters scrambling.

New York City Parks Advocates had argued the event was taking away public space from, well, the public, by setting up on Damrosch Park, an area of greenery on the Lincoln Center compound.

The New York City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

This past October, Mayor Annise Parker of Houston subpoenaed sermons from several pastors in the Houston area who opposed a city ordinance that would have allowed people to choose which bathroom — male or female — they could use in a public establishment.

A victory parade is set to take place in downtown Seattle, and fans are being encouraged by the city to carpool or use public transportation to reach the area, due to lack of available parking.

«Freedom of speech activities on public property in areas surrounding the arena are managed by the city of Greenville and we are supportive of the city's efforts.»

ART ON THE PRAIRIE: 50 area artists, children's art activities and book sale, 9:30 - 3:20 p.m. Sept. 10; Stafford Place in front of Warrenville Public Library and City Hall, Warrenville.

But a public outcry pushed the park board to reconsider and decide that the new skate park should not be located in any of the city's 60 neighborhood parks that are tucked in residential areas.

A directly - elected city mayor, in contrast, is the head of a single city council or local authority and is responsible for public service delivery within that area.

With the city facing more budget cuts or even, as she suggested, «insolvency,» Miner was hoping for relief in an area where Albany is itself the prime culprit because of the exploding cost of pensions and benefits promised to public employees.

The program arranges for domestic violence survivors and other intimidated victims living in public housing to transfer to safe housing in other areas of New York City.

Oneida County public health department advises the Rome Community that effective today, November 22, 2016, a boil - water advisory has been issued by the City of Rome for areas that are supplied by Rome's water supply.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in New York City area with no public schedule, while members of his cabinet deliver regional budget briefings at various locations throughout the state.

I already had many concerns with this proposal, including the impact of so many truck trips in an area with the highest rate of asthma in the Nation, but the totally undemocratic disrespect for the public approval process and the people of the City and the State prompts me to write to you.

«With the majority of the poverty in Erie County outside of the City of Buffalo, it is important that we form public / private partnerships to offer services to these outlying areas.

John Loffredo, former Commissioner of Public Works Mark Wegner, Superintendent of Highways, Town of Cheektowaga Darlene Washington, CSEA Ken Jennetti, AFSCME Paul Ingham, Northeast Area Manager, Siemens David Pawlik, President, CSS Construction (former Commissioner of Housing / Community Development for City of Buffalo and Vice President at Savarino Construction) Pat Reilly, President, John W. Danforth Dan Boody, Business Agent, IUPAT District Council 4 Rhonda Ricks, Inclusion Development Associates, Inc..

The Empire State Plaza in New York's capital city may not be a museum, but critics say that it still houses one of the most significant modern art collections available for public viewing in the area.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

«There's no denying that charter schools have become a fundamental part of the overall success of New York City public schools, especially in those areas where moms and dads are looking to get their kids out of a failing school so they can have a fresh start on the future of their dreams,» Flanagan said in the statement.

Ryan says the city has to do whatever it can to stop a junkyard from going up in the middle of an area undergoing a renaissance fueled by millions of public and private dollars.

The city is home to two private healthcare systems, which combined operate eight hospitals and countless clinics in the greater metropolitan area, as well as three public hospitals operated by Erie County and the State of New York.

The New York State Board of Regents and the Mount Vernon City School District welcome comments on the application, including those related to the programmatic and fiscal impact of the renewal proposal on public and non-public schools in the area.

Sections of Harris Field, a heavily - used park sandwiched between Bronx High School of Science and Lehman College, were found to have four times the federally - established legal limit of lead contamination for public play areas, according to documents obtained by the Norwood News with the help of the nonprofit New York City Park Advocates.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

Today, she shared a number of concrete proposals to better tackle the issue of increasing opportunities for MWBEs — an area where she has been critical of de Blasio — and more generally aimed at increasing diversity throughout the city, including setting up a public - private partnership and a point person who would be responsible for increasing opportunities in the private sector.

Walsh, in the budget proposal, said the city could cut spending in areas such as social security, medical insurance, parks conservancy, the department of public works and city employee, police and fire retirement systems.

Lorrie Abounader, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise Harvey Albond, Outgoing Niagara Region State Parks Commissioner (2 terms), President Niagara Falls Rotary Club Jay Bumey, WNYEA Habitat and Natural Resources Chair; Learning Sustainability Campaign; GreenWatch; Friends of Times Beach Chair Erin Carmina, 500 Block Association of Main Street in Downtown Buffalo Thomas Frank, 1st Niagara National Transportation Heritage Area Jerome Nagy Joseph Garguilo Justin Imola Derik Kane Lari Komiczky, Sweet Home Central School District Keith Lucas, City of Buffalo Richard Mrugala Tom Mussell Mathew Nagowski, Partnership for the Public Good, Cornell Club of Greater Buffalo David Paoletta Suzie Rivo Solender, Amherst Youth Board, Erie Co..

The former surrogate for Hillary Clinton will propose new laws barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from public schools, social service offices and personnel areas of city buildings, except when the federal authorities have a warrant.

The memo also lays out in detail the horsetrading that typically occurs around budget time, as in the area of higher education financing, where Mr. Cuomo has sought broad changes in how public universities procure supplies and services and wants to allow the City University of New York to raise tuition.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is in Providence, Rhode Island (one of his daughters attends Brown University there) and the New York City area with no public schedule.

Ramos and Liu were part of a special program to increase police presence in Police Service Area 3, which patrols nearby public housing complexes, said City Councilman Robert Cornegy, who represents the aArea 3, which patrols nearby public housing complexes, said City Councilman Robert Cornegy, who represents the areaarea.

But troubled areas of the city, particularly in public housing, have seen periodic spikes in violence that have claimed multiple lives.

Central government grants of all kinds to councils and other public bodies have increased far faster in cities and big towns than they have in country area.

Late last year, the Public Service Commission announced it would hold a conference in June to determine the need for transmission lines that would bring needed megawatts of upstate power to the New York City area.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The city health department and leading AIDS advocacy groups are scrambling to convince Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse a proposal in his new executive budget that would reduce reimbursements for local government public health spending in six core areas from 36 percent of the total to 29 percent.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez said he was prompted get involved in the crackdown after his Twitter feed was «filled with pictures of public employee parked into dangerous areas» like bus stops, bike lanes and cross walks.

Currently the department uses 60 cameras in five precincts and one public service area that oversees a city housing complex — the first phase of a rollout ordered by a federal judge who ruled in 2013 that the department's use of stop - and - frisk was unconstitutional because it disproportionately targeted minorities.

Residential areas and Zongos, the Central Business District, including the inner city periphery, markets and lorry parks, university campuses, schools and hospitals, and beaches and public places of entertainment and tourist centres are all going to elicit special attention.»

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

Steiner notes matter - of - factly that Black «lacks evidence of knowledge» in a host of «critical areas» confronting New York City's public schools, including education standards, curriculum and turning around low performing schools.

Renderings of the project, presented by WXY Architecture, reveal a Brooklyn Bridge marketplace that would be located in a gap under the bridge between DUMBO and Downtown Brooklyn where there is currently a city - owned «maintenance area» that is closed off to the public.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

More than 8 million broadcast and cable TV viewers in the New York area are expected to see a new television ad sponsored by the UFT that highlights the dedication of New York City public school educators.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Instpublic affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental InstPublic and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

In 2016, the excavations are planned to be extended to the public areas of the ancient city.

For Jersey City Public Schools teachers, hands - on STEM education is an important area of focus — but one that is often difficult to adequately fund.

Vilnius is a green city: parks, public gardens, reserves and other green areas cover nearly half of the city area.

Sunlight Day Spa operates on the first floor of our headquarters and is frequented by both our employees and the general Kansas City - area public.