Sentences with phrase «serving as borough president»

Before serving as borough president, Stringer was in the State Assembly for 13 years.

Scott Stringer, the comptroller and another potential primary contender, received tens of thousands of dollars in real estate donations, including money bundled by employee of Durst Organization and Two Trees, while serving as borough president and having a vote in the Uniformed Land Use Review Procedure that was vital to getting their projects passed.

Howard Golden, who served as borough president for 24 years before Marty Markowitz's ascention in 2001, was among the scores of others from the borough's political, legal, judicial and business communities who attended.

Stringer, who has served as borough president since 2006, had for months been the only Democrat in the field.

Outspending his rival Scott Stringer and unleashing a wave of stirring ads, the former governor lost by 4 points to Mr. Stringer, once little - known beyond Manhattan where he serves as borough president.

Not exact matches

Mr. Recchia — who served as chairman of the City Council's powerful finance committee — was term - limited out of office last year and decided to challenge Mr. Grimm after failing to secure support in his party to run for City Comptroller or for borough president of his native Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, Espaillat has the backing of two influential former Bronx borough presidents: Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor in 2005, and Adolfo Carrión, who served as a director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs under President Barack Obama.

Guy Molinari, the former borough president and congressman, was knocked as a career pol when he ran unsuccessfully for district attorney, as was former - DA and now - Congressman Daniel Donovan, though he had served some time in the Manhattan DA's office before moving into the political world.

Liu's successor, Scott Stringer, also served on the NYCERS board as Manhattan borough president.

«While I have made no secret of my hope to earn the votes of New Yorkers in 2021 in pursuit of serving them as mayor of the greatest city on Earth, I continue to be focused on my ongoing service to the borough of my birth and my run next year for re-election as Brooklyn borough president,» Adams said.

«Having served as Borough President the last three plus years, and living the reality that city agencies play a dominant and outsized role in the local decision - making process, demonstrates unmistakably that non-Staten Islanders still don't truly know or understand our borough, and probably never will,» Oddo said in a statement.

Menin, who lost out in her 2013 bid to become Manhattan borough president, previously served as chairwoman of Community Board 1 in lower Manhattan, and helped lead efforts to revitalize downtown after the 9/11 attacks.

Mr. Grodenchik served as a deputy borough president and worked for Parkside, the Queens Democratic Party's consulting and lobbying firm of choice.

In his speech, which can be read in full at http://on.nyc.gov/2lLlgwx, Borough President Diaz discussed past successes as well as new initiatives to bring positive change to The Bronx that could serve as a model for all five boroughs.

While serving as Manhattan borough president, he joined a union rally in 2008 outside KKR's offices calling for PE firms to pay their fair share of taxes.

NARAL's president, Kelli Conlin, accused Donovan of securing grant money for the Crisis Pregnancy Center of New York while serving as State Island deputy borough president.

He served on the City Council, in the White House, at HUD, as borough president.

Both the Ali Forney Center, which serves LGBT youth, and SAGE, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, have their own spaces in Harlem, but the borough president agreed with others who spoke up saying a multi-purpose center serving as wide a variety of needs and interests as possible would be ideal.

The former borough president — one of Kelly's biggest boosters to get him to run for mayor in 2014 — said Kelly «indicated his plan is to serve out his time as police commissioner.

Ruben Diaz Jr. has been the borough president since 2009 and previously served as a New York State Assemblyman.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, who served three terms in the council and continues to deal with land use questions as borough president, called the question «a hard onPresident Gale Brewer, who served three terms in the council and continues to deal with land use questions as borough president, called the question «a hard onpresident, called the question «a hard one.»

And also, to be honest, Gale has served this community so well and she did a terrific job all the way through Dec. 31, and will be amazing as our next borough president.

After serving as Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, Sutton became an African - American broadcasting pioneer by purchasing radio stations WLIB and WBLS, launching the first radio chain aimed at black listeners, civil rights leader Al Sharpton said Sunday.

He previously worked for the Manhattan district attorney and served as deputy borough president in Staten Island.

Women represented in the exhibit range from well - known figured such as Shirley Chisholm, the «unbought and unbossed» educator and congresswoman, and the cosmetics mogul Madam C.J. Walker to Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman to serve as a federal judge and Manhattan borough president.

Long noted that Donovan served as Staten Island district attorney and deputy borough president and ran for New York State attorney general.

Moskowitz, who founded Success after she lost her bid for Manhattan borough president in 2005, has served as the driving force and public face of the network since the first Success school opened in Harlem in 2006.