Sentences with phrase «public housing developments»

These grants are designated for the substantial rehabilitation or new construction of public housing developments that will increase energy efficiency and environmental performance.

This is the second new charter school to be built inside city public housing developments in Harlem.

A trio of Democratic pols lashed out today at the Bloomberg administration during an announcement of 17 long - awaited security cameras at the Brooklyn public housing development where two children were stabbed, one fatally, more than a week ago.

The purpose of the conference was to hear a proposal to «infill» large tracts of open space at public housing developments with between 10,000 and 20,000 units of senior citizen housing.

Last week, Schneiderman's office launched a separate investigation of the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments in response to a complaint filed by Black Lives Matter - Buffalo.

That was the message sent last month at the oldest public housing development in the United States, where low - income residents now have access to its city's popular bike share system.

She spent Monday visiting public housing developments around the city.

Shootings in public housing developments rose 31 percent since 2009, even as shooting rates across the city declined.

State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Councilman Ritchie Torres (D - Bronx), joined by Councilman Mark Treyger (D - Brooklyn) and outraged New York City Housing Development tenants, released an alarming investigative report on Tuesday, «Sex Offenders in Public Housing: NYCHA Residents at Risk,» detailing a sharp rise in predators illegally residing in public housing developments across the city.

In 2008, as Manhattan borough president, Mr. Stringer produced a report entitled «Land Rich, Pocket Poor» that explored potential development opportunities on the large tracts of open ground area in most public housing developments.

The New York State Sex Offender registry revealed that 30 sex offenders illegally called The Bronx's public housing developments home.

BiblioTech Administrator Laura Cole shed some light on the new location «We will be located in commercial space in a new public housing development.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Obama administration has announced a final rule prohibiting smoking in public housing developments nationwide.

«New York's most successful public housing developments are economically integrated.

The Public Housing Modernization Program was established in 1980 to provide grants to State - aided public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for necessary repairs and improvements.

The Citywide Council of Presidents (CCOP), made up of the leaders of resident associations at different public housing developments, is demanding an independent monitor to oversee NYCHA.

In response, de Blasio said last week the city would spend $ 200 million expediting major heating upgrades at 20 public housing developments within eight to 20 months.

Over the next several days, some 200 union volunteers will start a lit drop to get 200,000 pieces for state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and other Dem statewide contenders out to NYC public housing developments.

Proud residents of First Houses on the Lower East Side, New York's first ever public housing development in the city, are worried about the...

After weeks of persistent heating outages at public housing developments during a bone - chilling stretch of winter, de Blasio is finally committing $ 13 million toward improving the city's response to the crisis.

Should NYCHA give up its controversial plan to generate revenue by adding mixed - income 50/50 percent (market / affordable) buildings at the Wyckoff Gardens and Holmes Towers public housing developments?

«I will establish a cabinet - level Civil Rights Department to strengthen enforcement fair housing and anti-discrimination laws and initiate a new public housing program to build in both the cities and the suburbs humanly - scaled, scatter - site, mixed - income, clean energy public housing developments that will improve the quality of life in any community in which they are built,» Hawkins said.

The Buffalo News first reported that the investigation is taking place after their use of traffic checkpoints near public housing developments.

«The results show we have a long way to go to keep our NYCHA residents safe,» Stringer said of the report, which recently surveyed more than 500 NYCHA resident from 10 Lower East Side and East Village public housing developments.

At a 1984 rally for local Democratic district leaders, he warned that a large public housing development in his district, the Sheepshead Bay - Nostrand Houses, was in danger of «tipping,» according to a Democrat in attendance.

The center, located at 334 Madison St., is in the Vladeck public housing development.

Referencing the supporters from public housing developments in attendance, Mendez added, «She was content being district leader and never seeking higher office, except all of these people here — not once, not twice but multiple times — asked Alice to run.»

Klein and Torres» investigation identified 81 public housing developments throughout the five boroughs that currently have sex offenders residing in at least one of their buildings, with 21 of those developments housing multiple offenders.

Area homes, businesses and public housing developments suffered heavy

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

Mr. Liang shot and killed the unarmed Gurley in an unlit stairwell inside an East New York public housing development.

The Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice conducted a study of the effect of light on crime in which 40 public housing developments received 400 exterior lights, the results of the study are set to be released later in the year.

The ten most rodent - infested public housing developments — home to about 23,000 rats — are about to get a massive extermination treatment, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office announced Tuesday.

MANHATTAN — Tenants from the Stanley Isaacs public housing development will speak out on Tuesday against the East 91s Street garbage transfer station that's slated to be built less than 280 feet from its doorstep.

Located in Vinegar Hill, a gentrifying neighborhood between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and DUMBO, PS 307 has long served children who live in the Farragut public housing development across the street.

Alemany Farms Staff and Volunteers who have revitalized Alemany Farm, — a forgotten 4.5 acre of land situated near a 165 - unit public housing development beset by high unemployment and violence — into an oasis of opportunity.

Here the room is inhabited by Rowland's sculpture containing the image of nearby public housing development Marble Hill Houses.

The artist's exploration begins with images of the enormous public housing developments in Algiers that had been modeled on France's habitation à loyer modéré (housing at moderated rents).

The funding is provided through the State's Public Housing Modernization Drug Elimination program, part of a modernization program that provides grants to public housing developments where rental income is insufficient and funds are unavailable from other sources for needed repairs and improvements.

Along with Phase I — which was recently completed — Phase II is part of the three - phase revitalization of a 61 - year old public housing development that will produce a total of 180 affordable, energy - efficient apartments.

Violent crimes in New Your City's public housing developments rose sharply in 2010, particularly in Harlem and the Bronx, according to city data compiled...

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating the Buffalo Police Department's use of traffic checkpoints and enforcement sweeps inside public housing developments, after a complaint filed by members of Black Lives Matter Buffalo and other community groups accused the department of engaging in a «repeated, persistent and widespread pattern of unconstitutional policing.»

There are 99 public housing developments in Brooklyn, according to Adams, who said the developments contain more than 58,000 apartments.

As a member of President Clinton's Cabinet, Secretary Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation's public housing developments and with formulating policies which contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever homeownership rate.

The budget laid out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and members of the City Council designates funds for crime prevention in public housing developments, enhanced services for inmates, free school lunch for middle schoolers, child care for low - income families, and...

New York City's public housing developments are getting a new independent monitor to oversee repairs and upgrades.

Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon visited a public housing development in Brooklyn where she discussed problems affecting residents.

Also at 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Andy King and NYCHA Chairwoman and CEO Shola Olatoye, joined by state Sen. Ruth Hassell - Thompson, lead a tour of the authority's Boston Secor Houses, as King discusses nearly $ 1.5 million in funding for projects to install security cameras and renovate the public housing development's senior center and track and field; 3475 Bivona St., the Bronx.

The New York City Council and a group of tenants sued the Bloomberg administration over plans to lease land in public housing developments for the creation of market - rate apartments.