Sentences with phrase «thousands of city residents»

Thousands of city residents either turn down group coverage or lack access to group health insurance.

«We are not permitted to describe his findings in any way, even though this is about a public policy that has a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of city residents,» Gurian said of the report.

While job creation and total investment were important considerations when SIDA provided tax exemptions to projects like the two new Tops and expanded Nojaim's on the North, South, and Near West sides, respectively, perhaps what was more important was the immeasurable value of ensuring access to healthy and affordable food for thousands of city residents.

There are a lot of views about what to do with the authority that provides housing to thousands of city residents well down the economic ladder.

After decades of not collecting fees or updating billing on more than a hundred special lighting districts, Syracuse is trying to update its regulation of ornamental street lights, but it means bills for thousands of city resident could skyrocket.

Not exact matches

When a hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks are swept up in tornadoes and deposited all over the city, where they terrorize residents.

In a place like New York City, such an apartment might cost $ 50,000 more, but could save a resident hundreds of thousands in the long - run.

Uber framed the issue as unfitting for Cambridge, writing: «For a city known for its innovation and progressiveness, it is shocking that Cambridge would cling so blindly to the past and ban an innovation that thousands of its residents and small businesses value and use on a daily basis.»

A New York City advocacy group for low - income and minority residents filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank last fall for what it says are illegal and exploitative tactics that have cost the two named plaintiffs thousands of dollars in penalty fees it contends they shouldn't have had to pay.

The community - built playground at Parque Agua Santa will not only provide thousands of children with a safe place to play, but also engage the residents with the city of Puebla, AMA Mexico, Parques de Mexico and families from surrounding neighborhoods in a transformative partnership to improve the entire community.

Within hours after the northern city of Tianjin announced a cutback on new license plates last month, thousands of residents rushed to buy cars.

If you're one of the thousands of New York City residents suffering from damaged credit scores due to the high cost of living and other factors, you're not alone.

Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Selma director Ava DuVerney, comedian Hannibal Buress, musicians Stevie Wonder and Janelle Monáe and several others hosted an event in Flint to raise money for the community that has been effected by a horrific crisis, in which thousands of residents — including large numbers of children — have been exposed to contaminated city water.

«Every day, they stand up and fight for New York City residents, they fight to keep our public hospitals open and serving our most vulnerable patients and on behalf of the thousands of nurses in NYC and the thousands that serve within our public hospital system, we applaud and enthusiastically support these candidates who stand with our patients and communities.»

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

The embattled chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority — buffeted by scandals over untested lead paint, false testimony and thousands of residents without heat in the winter cold — testified for nearly five hours before the City Council on Tuesday and did not heed calls by the chamber's leader to apologize.

«For the tens of thousands of residents and tourists who ride the ferry each day between Staten Island and Lower Manhattan, the visible absence of the twin towers from the New York City skyline is still a haunting sight,» said Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn).

Moreover, their members are some of the most politically active residents of New York City, deeply connected to and active in our communities, and they have pledged to dedicate thousands of volunteer hours for door - to - door canvassing, phone banking and rallies for our campaign.

The de Blasio administration's plan to rezone East New York and create or preserve thousands of new affordable housing units may actually displace as many as 50,000 residents, according to City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

The recommendation by Bloomberg, under advice from aides to himself on Cuomo, that thousands of elderly, disabled and mentally ill residents remain in more than 40 nursing homes and adult homes in flood - prone areas of New York City had calamitous consequences.

Thousands of New York City residents who are H.I.V. - positive will become eligible for public assistance for housing, transportation and food under a significant expansion of a state program that some activists had feared was being delayed.

«The city has proposed a comprehensive plan to improve the health and safety of thousands of NYCHA residents, and the construction was set to begin next month,» said Ishanee Parikh, a spokeswoman for de Blasio.

«Across the city, thousands of residents of all ages and backgrounds came together to make their neighborhoods a better place to call home.

Now we are at the point where new business, new life and new energy are returning to the site where so many thousands of residents worked in the past,» said City of Lackawanna Mayor Geoffrey Szymanski.

Our cultural organizations enrich our neighborhoods, inspire and educate our youth, employ thousands of our residents, and attract millions of tourists to this city.

Thousands of New Yorkers, many of them residents of public housing, braved the rain on Monday, October 9, to rally outside City Hall to push Mayor Bill de Blasio to adopt a new direction for his affordable housing plan.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state has no plans to conduct blood tests on residents in the city of Newburgh, where thousands may have been exposed to a toxic chemical linked to cancer, unless «the facts justify it.»

According to the plan, nearly two - thousand permanent jobs will be created: Golby was told there may be a project labor agreement - that the average worker at the facility can expect a salary of $ 43,000 dollars a year - there will be part time jobs as well - with job training targeting locals and minorities - and those jobs will go to city residents.

The Mayor's executive order marks another important step forward for economic development policy in our City and will have an incredibleimpact on the lives of thousands of hardworking residents,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

Astoria's elected officials blasted the city's decision to shut down its W train service last week, saying thousands of western Queens residents rely on the subway to commute to Manhattan.

Wizig made life hell for thousands of his tenants, the myriad low income home buyers he scammed and for the city residents who lived near his neglected properties.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.

When a mile - wide tornado roared through Joplin, Mo., it killed 158 people and injured thousands, and it also kicked up toxic remnants from the city's industrial past that are still haunting its residents on the third anniversary of the disaster

Debuting a new economic model, a team of researchers from Princeton University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond have identified 22 Detroit neighborhoods that, if developed, could bring in millions of dollars in residential and business rents while attracting thousands of new residents to the city.

New research shows that volcanic magma build - up poses a growing threat to the safety of thousands of residents of a nearby city.

The attacks led to shootouts between the Jihadists and police in the streets, in which hundreds were killed, and thousands of residents fled the city to escape the violence.

(Virtually all of Lvov's Jews — about a hundred and ten thousand residents, and a hundred thousand refugees who streamed into the city — eventually died in the camps.)

After years of terrorizing residents of midtown and downtown Manhattan, the revelers of SantaCon — an annual even that brings thousands of Santa costume - clad bros and babes streaming into the city and flocking to its bars — are meeting some resistance.

And tens of thousands of New Orleans residents, their homes and livelihoods destroyed, fled the city; Houston public schools alone absorbed more than 5,000 of the refugee students.

New condos and gentrifying neighborhoods have brought tens of thousands of residents back into the city.

On Thursday, the city of St. Paul said goodbye to Rice Park as thousands of St. Paul residents and visitors have come to know it.

In addition, thousands of the poorest residents in the city could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residecity could not return in the aftermath of Katrina because the City decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black resideCity decided to shutter our way to housing improvements — leaving behind thousands of mostly black residents.

The city is one of the country's oldest vacation destinations with many visitors each summer, but only a few thousand residents year - round.

Thousands of Houston area residents are living in temporary shelters as the city of Houston is still experiencing severe flooding in some areas due to the accumulation of historic levels of rainfall, though floodwaters are beginning to recede in many parts of the city.

So there's not quite a thousand but just north of Jakarta there are 128 islands that all offer a slice of heaven — all crystal sands, turquoise waters and palm trees — for city dwellers, and if it's good enough for Jakarta's residents it's good enough for us.

With the promise of an easy going lifestyle, stunning sandy beaches, world class wines and a sophisticated dining scene, the city attracts thousands of new residents every week.

Our municipal grade water treatment plant can accommodate a city of thousands of residents, and is designed to be averse to shortages and outages.

Austin is suffering from an identity crisis with the influx of thousands of new residents that threatens the city's sense of weird.

This biannual program gives thousands of residents and arts lovers, alike, get a rare look inside at the vibrant, creative communities of TG and Industry City.

• In Rio de Janeiro, the film describes how a surge of construction and related gentrification is displacing thousands of people living in hillside favelas — informal settlements that are home to 3 million of the city's 12 million residents.