Sentences with phrase «public housing complex»

The mayor's office added that the city would also look to use space inside public housing complexes.

Community Board 11 wants to survey the undeveloped space in public housing complexes in the area — which houses more public housing than anywhere else in the country — to determine what types of projects will be acceptable to the community.

Because the transfer station sits less than 300 feet from two public housing projects, the Stanley Isaacs Houses and John Holmes Towers, State Assemblyman Micah Kellner has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to site such facilities within 800 feet of public housing complexes in the city.

Upstate Medical University last month announced plans to partner with COR to develop a mix of offices, housing, stores and educational space on 10 acres at the former Kennedy Square public housing complex near downtown Syracuse.

She toured a Brooklyn public housing complex for one of her first campaign events.

The de Blasio administration's decision to withhold bond financing from a Queens real estate development will delay heating improvements at an adjacent public housing complex for at least three years,...

The de Blasio administration's decision to withhold bond financing from a Queens real estate development will delay heating improvements at an adjacent public housing complex for at least three years, a City Council report said Tuesday.

The officers were shot multiple times after responding to a domestic violence report at a Harlem public housing complex in May 1971.

Six weeks ago, Lower East Side teenager Keith Salgado was murdered in the courtyard of the Campos Plaza public housing complex on East 12th Street.

Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who has been critical of Mr. Cuomo, leapt into the middle of the primary last Tuesday when he requested on Twitter that Ms. Nixon tour a Brooklyn public housing complex with him.

The brawl and other incidents have resulted from feuding between students from the neighborhood and those from the Chicago Housing Authority's Altgeld Gardens public housing complex.

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 area.

A jury last month convicted Liang of manslaughter and official misconduct for killing Akai Gurley in an unlit stairwell of the Pink Houses public housing complex in East New York, Brooklyn.

Mr. Cuomo has visited public housing complexes in the city three times in the past few weeks, always with cameras and supporters in tow, blasting what he has called the authority's mismanagement and abuse of tenants.

Drawings of a proposed Syracuse University sports stadium to be built near the former Kennedy Square public housing complex site.

In one study, every child living in a Chicago public housing complex reported witnessing a shooting before the age of 5.

The mayor ended his predecessor's policy of not reserving any units for homeless people in the city's sprawling public housing complexes, but has maintained they can not offer them more than 750 apartments a year — and Ms. James indicated she wanted more.

«We try to help kids understand they «ve got to take that step forward, to take more responsibility for their own development, «said Don Hellison, a University of Illinois at Chicago physical education professor who developed a basketball program for children living in the Cabrini - Green public housing complex.

Residents of the South End public housing complex heard from top environmental officials Wednesday evening, sharing their growing concerns about diesel truck traffic and the presence of nearby Global Partners, which transports Bakken crude oil by railroad tracks that buffer the apartments.

BY JOSH ROGERS Nine Lower East Side public housing complexes will be able to tap into a $ 3 billion federal fund to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week in Red Hook.

«Liberty Gardens Apartments will provide more affordable family housing for Rome residents, redevelop a distressed public housing complex for the first time in its more than 60 - year history, and provide excellent community and recreation facilities for residents,» said Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner & CEO of New York State Homes & Community Renewal.

New York City agreed to change its guidelines on police patrols in public housing complexes as part of a proposed settlement of a five - year - old lawsuit accusing officers of racial discrimination against residents and guests.

Other major allocations included $ 37,107 for the nonprofit East River Development Alliance, serving residents of the three massive public housing complexes in Long Island City and Astoria and $ 19,714 for Woodside on the Move to sponsor graffiti removal and youth programs.

Surveillance footage at an adjacent public housing complex showed some of what happened that night.

The seniors at the Baruch Addition public housing complex bundled up this afternoon and joined State Sen. Daniel Squadron to celebrate a victory years in the making.

In one of Brooklyn's most rapidly changing districts, where brownstones sell for millions of dollars around the corner from deteriorating public housing complexes, Council Member Laurie Cumbo believes that arts and culture can be a unifying factor.

Incumbent Inez Dickens is blaming challenger Vincent Morgan for creating fliers referring to her as a «slumlord millionaire» and posting them in the Polo Grounds public housing complex.

In fact, it was the Democratic mayoral candidates — former Congressman Anthony Weiner, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, City Comptroller John Liu and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — who slept in a Harlem public housing complex overnight this weekend.

Yesterday we were at the Campos Plaza Housing public housing complex, where elected officials announced the creation of an after - school recreational program.

Here in New York City, de Blasio has had to reckon with the death of Eric Garner, who was placed in an apparent chokehold by police, and the recent unprovoked shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed man who was shot in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex by a rookie cop on patrol.

Included in the selections for Board 3 — which covers the East Village, Lower East Side and parts of Chinatown and Little Italy — were an Alphabet City public housing complex leader, the founder of an LGBT advocacy group, a representative from Chinatown's influential neighborhood organizations, and a choreographer / artist with roots in the Lower East Side's art scene.

The study enlisted volunteers already participating in the ongoing Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), which began in 1997 among residents of Chicago - area retirement communities and senior public housing complexes.

PARK CITY, Utah — I have seen 11 films so far at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and the most affecting involves a couple of kids from a Chicago public housing complex who were given tape recorders by National Public Radio, and asked to record the story of their lives.

NEW YORK — The zone for Public School 67 was drawn exclusively around the sprawling Ingersoll public housing complex, but as children trudge into the building, they can see the tips of the gleaming glass luxury towers that are reshaping the skyline around them in downtown Brooklyn.

Last fall, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals asked SaveKitty Foundation to respond to a request to check out a dire situation at Ravenswood Houses, a 31 - building public housing complex in Long Island City, Queens.

The former Kennedy Square public housing complex site, located off East Fayette Street, east of downtown, is being considered for a new sports arena in Syracuse, according to political sources.

In Yonkers, N.Y., the Cottage Place Gardens public housing complex is also being revitalized with the aid of a CNI grant.

Some elected leaders pushed the D.E.C. risk a lawsuit, saying the project could have a major effect on a nearby public housing complex.

Farther afield, Thomas Hirshhorn entices art audiences to venture to the South Bronx with his Gramsci Monument (2013), sponsored by Dia Art Foundation, at the Forest Houses public housing complex.

Thompson also brushed off calls for a special prosecutor in the police shooting death of Akai Gurley, an unarmed black man fatally shot by a rookie cop in the stairwell of a Brooklyn public housing complex.

Although decidedly different in approach, both books are animated by the conviction that, as Sudhir Venkatesh puts it, the «public housing complex has become a contemporary mirror for American self - examination.»

If the residents of the public housing complexes, if they were powerful and wealthy, do you think it would take four years to get a boiler fixed or not,» he said,» without mentioning de Blasio by name.

Tenants from Stanley Isaacs Houses, a public housing complex less than 280 feet away, will speak out on Tuesday.

RED HOOK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a state investigation into a power surge at a Con Edison substation in Red Hook that caused extensive train delays and power outages at a public housing complex Sunday afternoon.

Speaking inside a public housing complex in her district, Ms. Mark - Viverito peppered her remarks with Spanish, and noted that her mother in Puerto Rico was following along as her speech was transmitted via livestream.

The contract provides a framework for the hiring of union contractors to complete badly needed repairs throughout the city's public housing complexes.

A local TV reporter was attacked while interviewing a Queens resident at a public housing complex where de Blasio was simultaneously holding a press event, authorities said.

She toured a public housing complex in Brooklyn to meet with residents and hear their complaints about conditions amid a growing scandal over lead and mismanagement within New York City Public Housing Authority.