Sentences with phrase «through city»

In Sendai, the largest city, waves flooded the streets and the airport, sending cars and even planes swirling through the city while black smoke billowed from the burning Nippon Oil refinery.

He estimated that the entire device, when built, could be transported by truck through city streets or past shipping containers in ports.

Unlike traditional traffic models, which used equations to describe moving vehicles en masse as a kind of fluid, Transims modeled each vehicle and driver as an agent moving through a city's road network.

And at 3 p.m., there finally was a march, with about 1000 participants, proceeding through the city's Gwanghwamun district and returning to the center.

A motor with more power allows you to cruise through the city at top speed, but may also be cruising through your battery.

The city said that 15 charter schools currently offer prekindergarten through the city's universal program, and all have signed the contract.

It was the charters» first win in the dispute, which began in the fall of 2015 when Success Academy, which had just begun offering prekindergarten in three of its schools through the city's universal prekindergarten program, refused to sign a contract required by the city.

The hybrid plan satisfies the desire of some to keep the interstate flowing through the city and of others to knit the city's South Side and University Hill neighborhoods with the downtown by getting rid of an overhead highway.

The apartments available through the city housing lottery include four one - bedrooms for $ 931 per month, 27 two - bedrooms for $ 1,123 per month and two three - bedrooms going for $ 1,292 per month.

«This was one of the first capital projects that I successfully navigated through the City Council back when I got elected,» Mendez said.

But as autumn approaches, Mayor Bill de Blasio is wrestling with the kind of New York dilemma that has all the trappings of a particularly fevered Tom Wolfe vignette: the mayor promised to ban the elegant horse - drawn carriages — reviled by animal rights groups because they claim the practice of driving a horse through city streets is inhumane — on «day one» of his administration.

Indeed, Cuomo has repeatedly touted the state's use of design - build to save time and money, but he has not shepherded through city permission.

At 6 p.m. Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and the Bronx Borough Board will host a public hearing regarding the Zoning for Quality and Affordability and the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing proposals of Mayor de Blasio through the City Planning department and toward his housing plan.

[62] Along with Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie, the respective leaders of the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and Deputy First Minister Sturgeon, Lamont added her signature to a February 2012 letter urging Glasgow City Council to decline an application by the Scottish Defence League to stage a march through the city.

Manuel Burgos, an East New York resident who said he lives and operates a business a block away from the rezoning area, added that the density created through the city's proposal is needed to attract quality retails.

Bramson pledged to implement «the most ambitious downtown development plan in the entire Hudson Valley» and to «seize hold of tomorrow» through city - wide infrastructure and environmental initiatives.

BK students code robots through city program Brooklyn students are programming robots as part of a city program.

But the Moore shooting will shift the political mood, even if there's no practical connection between it and, say, walking through a city park after dark.

Council member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer are moving to force three towers planned for the Two Bridges waterfront to go through the city's land use review process.

Even if the amendments gain city approval, Brink said the Edgewater and every other development project will still have to work through city committees and the Common Council and get all the necessary votes.

When the only other similar size project that we've had come through the city has been the Joint Schools Construction Board, which we had in writing 10 %, 15 % for people of color, city residents, job training.

Wind gusts in excess of 60 mph were scattering mounds of sand miles inland and sending the Atlantic Ocean flooding through the city's streets.

Rochester annually charges about $ 35 per home, on average, through city property taxes for sidewalk snow plowing.

In Buffalo, a portion of the Thruway through the city has been toll - free since 2006.

«We're moving forward and I am so proud to be here,» said Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who helped fund the $ 500,000 project through the City Council.

o This process would compel all hotel projects in the City to go through a mandated public review through the City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP).

This will be accomplished through a city sales tax «growth freeze.»

Scajaquada Creek may flow downhill from Buffalo's eastern suburbs, through the city and eventually to the Niagara River.

«It takes into account having a boulevard or community grid on top, and keeping the highway going through the city on the bottom.

One goal of the rezoning would be to require at least 45 % affordable housing in new projects, through the city's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Program (MIH).

Seeking to turn the episode to Liu's advantage, other speakers sought to portray Jamy Liu's experience — and her reticence about it — as a common thread through the city's immigrant and working communities

City officials acknowledged that the former trolley space will eventually go through the city's land use approval process (ULURP).

After a lengthy legislative process, a bill regarding police misconduct is likely to move through the City Council this week, beginning with a Tuesday committee vote.

In January, they filed an application for a zoning text amendment to force the projects to go through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP).

While Democratic organizations are not bound by these regulations, they can take a cue from these guidelines and strides made by city governments to become more user friendly, according to David Moore, a civic technologist who launched New York City's Councilmatic, an interactive online tool for understanding the activity and legislation that moves through the City Council.

During a car ride through the city, Mahoney pointed out to Cuomo the trash lining the highways.

School nurse positions funded through the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be downsized, affecting some 33,000 students in public, private and parochial schools.

(Make The Road New York receives discretionary funding through the City Council and individual Council members, for a variety of community programs and services it performs.)

The Thompson campaigners wore t - shirts emblazoned with the slogan «Eight is Enough,» a dig at Mayor Bloomberg, who pushed an unpopular term - limits extension bill through the City Council last fall so he would be eligible for re-election.

While approval for the program initially went through City Council, years two and three avoided the council entirely by going through the Department.

Mr. de Blasio said the jails could be closed in 10 years, providing the city could reduce the number of people who cycle through the city's system to 5,000; low enough, that is, for every inmate to be taken off the 400 - acre island and housed instead in jails elsewhere in the city.

By James Briggs Plans to redevelop Madison's Edgewater Hotel have reached the end of a long and winding road through the city's legions of committees and boards.

But a well - connected «beep» can still be a tremendous ally to developers trying to usher a project through the city's arcane Uniform Land Use Review Procedure.

«My colleagues and I know that many of our constituents are calling for a larger percentage of units and deeper affordability levels — and we will get there in East New York through city subsidies,» he said.

The Daily News accuses Mayor Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn of not having enough influence to push the armory development through City Council.

West Street was built in the middle of the last century, as Interstate 81 was paving through the city, as a way to move cars more easily.

If it loses that gambit, Melohn's project would have to go through the city's land - use review process.

The mayor could also influence the school system through the city budget.

Mr. de Blasio said he would work with the City Council to determine possible sites for new jails, and then move on to the arduous task of designing them and getting them approved through the city's lengthy land - use process.

After nearly 20 years of coordinating football, soccer, softball and kickball games at various fields scattered through the city, Damico is leading...