Sentences with phrase «under a mayor who»

He declined, however, to say whether he would be willing to stay on as police commissioner under a mayor who appointed an inspector general.

In New York City, the funding is used almost entirely for housing projects, and under a mayor who has promised to vastly expand the city's affordable housing stock by creating and preserving 200,000 units over a decade, that pattern was not going to change.

Not exact matches

And even those who were entranced by Rob Ford's promise to «stop the gravy train» have to admit that their mayor is not — most emphatically not — a man who shows grace under pressure.

Mr. Navalny, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Moscow in 2013, has been under house arrest since February.

Cuomo also hired two former Bloombeg administration staffers: Kevin Kelly, who had served as deputy commissioner of NYC Business under the former mayor, will be COO of New York State Homes and Community Renewal; and Jamal Othman, who was chief of staff in the New York City Mayor's Office of Veterans Affairs will now be deputy director of the state Division of Veterans» Affairs.

Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor under Giuliani at City Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.»

Even at this uniquely precarious moment for the de Blasio administration, the mayor has assembled a large coalition of surrogates to support mayoral control, including 100 business leaders who are not traditional de Blasio allies, clergy members, union leaders, technology executives, elected officials and former top officials under mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.

Harry Nespoli, chairman of the city's labor coalition, suggested letting New York apply some of the $ 400 million of unused cash from the union health - insurance fund to pay for teachers who would be fired under the mayor's $ 65.7 billion spending plan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has since fallen under intense scrutiny from city watchdogs — most recently, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman served subpoenas to parties involved in the flip, including the Allure Group and lobbyist James Capalino, who has previously raised money for both the mayor and prior owners of Rivington House.

Contrary to expectations, it falls under the jurisdiction of the state, not the city, a situation that has allowed the mayor and the governor — in this case Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo, Democrats who don't particularly get along — to blame each other when something goes wrong.

They consider Joshua Gold, a lawyer who ran the mayor's political nonprofit that's now under investigation, as someone whose communications with the mayor should be kept secret.

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.

In his new role Fuleihan will have to find savings to account for any retroactive pay de Blasio chooses to afford the municipal unions, who are all working under old contracts, and to pay for continuing post-Sandy recovery as well as the new mayor's ambitiously progressive agenda.

But dozens of Council members voted against it at the borough level, and even those who declined to participate will be under pressure from activists to vote against it — or will look to leverage their support for concessions from the mayor on the plan or on issues specific to their districts.

Frank Commisso, Jr., an Albany common councilman who is running for mayor this year, has pledged to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services.»

Senate Republicans are scrapping to keep control of their slim majority in the face of investigations and illness and they have expressed a great hesitance to renew mayoral control under Bill de Blasio, New York's progressive mayor who worked to push the chamber into Democratic control in the recent election cycle.

Maloney, who served as White House staff secretary under Bill Clinton and was a top aide to governors Spitzer and Paterson, said he was not chiefly motivated to support Quinn simply because she would be New York City's first female and first openly gay mayor.

The mayor also asked lawmakers to urge the state to increase the shelter allowance for homeless families, the amount of aid the state provides for families who receive a subsidy under a program called the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, or FEPS.

Under the bill, the mayor appoints a superintendent, who would have the same duties the leader of the district currently has.

TIMES SQUARE — Times Square street vendors who complain they are getting crushed under the mayor's campaign against topless panhandlers saw the number of tickets handed out by the NYPD quadruple at the end of the summer, according to city data.

The letter is signed by a wide variety of women — including a number with ties to Mayor Bloomberg, like NARAL Pro-Choice NY's Kelli Conlin, whose organization has endorsed the mayor; US Sen. Chuck Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, who served as DOT commissioner under Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani; and actress Whoopi Goldberg, who was one of the mayor's many celebrity endorsers in 2009.

Times Square street vendors who complain they are getting crushed under the mayor's campaign against topless panhandlers saw the number of tickets handed out by the NYPD quadruple at the end of the summer.

«There is blood on many hands, from those who incited violence under the guise of protest all the way to the mayor's office at City Hall,» Lynch said in a statement supplied by spokesman Albert O'Leary.

Mr. Banks did not feel he would have enough authority under Mr. Bratton, according to multiple reports, and stories have continued to surface about a rift between the mayor and his police commissioner, who once served under Republican Rudolph Giuliani.

The filing is a big haul for a mayor who has spent the last six months, and longer, under the cloud of state and federal investigations into his fundraising efforts, and who had pledged this spring to follow the example set by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who raised the majority of his presidential campaign's funds from donors giving small amounts.

Republican Joe Lhota, a businessman, former chair of the city transit authority and deputy mayor under Republican Rudy Giuliani, has repeatedly accused Democrat Bill de Blasio of being soft on crime, lambasting de Blasio's reaction to a recent incident in New York involving a large group of motorcycle riders who chased and beat the driver of an SUV.

Queens State Senator Michael Gianaris, who has authored the legislation that would offer between $ 6 billion and $ 7 billion over three years through a temporary surcharge on those earning more than $ 1 million annually, said that the governor, the mayor and Senate Republicans all agree that the MTA is under - funded.

The commission is under the leadership of Chair Carl Weisbrod, who is also the commissioner of the city's Department of City Planning and serves at the discretion of the mayor.

Lhota, who served as deputy mayor under Giuliani, has relied heavily on his former boss's connections and starpower to gain traction in the race since he stepped down as chair of the MTA.

Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the Oversight and Investigations Committee, called the mayor's overblown response to those concerns «an insidious power grab under the guise of good government.»

But the Cuomo campaign, which was run by ex-Cuomo aide Joe Percoco, who is also now under investigation, was nonetheless involved in the overall effort and may have been aware of the mayor's actions.

Records also show the mayor took in 92 contributions after Election Day totaling $ 82,461, including 13 from donors who each gave $ 4,950, the maximum allowed under city election law.

«It's an embarrassment that we have a mayor under massive federal investigation,» said Bradley Tusk, who helped orchestrate former Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 third - term victory.

She and de Blasio — who himself served as chairman of the City Council's General Welfare Committee when he was a city councilman — first met more than 20 years ago when Carrión was serving as commissioner of the city's Community Development Agency under former Mayor David Dinkins» administration, where the mayor also got his start.

CIVIC CENTER — Newly - appointed Police Commissioner Bill Bratton who returned to the helm of the NYPD since last holding the post under former mayor Rudy Giuliani, pledged during his swearing - in ceremony Thursday to improve relations between the NYPD and the community.

«I've wanted to have a move to put it under the mayor's control,» said Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who has fumed over the subway chaos.

To conduct his review, Mr. Cuomo brought in Mr. Schwartz, who served as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office under Mr. Giuliani during the 1980s, when the future mayor held Mr. Bharara's job.

But the Beep — who has ambitions to run for mayor himself — then listed a litany of complaints he has with the city Department of Education under de Blasio.

Before that, he was a deputy mayor under Mayor Michael Bloomberg who was focused on education.

The Republican nomination is also being contested, by candidates including Joseph J. Lhota, a former deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani who resigned as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's chair at the end of 2012, and John Catsimatidis, the owner of the Gristedes and Red Apple supermarket chains.

Carroll — who has served under three Democratic mayors — announced earlier this summer he was leaving the Democratic Committee to back Walsh.

One man blamed Mr. de Blasio and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for Garner's death, accusing the Democratic mayor of appointing a top cop who once served under Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

On Friday, the mayor said that his fund - raising is only under a microscope because of politics — and ripped the election official who pushed for the probe as clueless.

Alexander, the former shadow health secretary who quit Corbyn's frontbench during the string of resignations over his leadership in 2016, has resigned her seat to take up a role as deputy mayor for transport under the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, at City Hall.

Soares, who criticized the U.S. war on drugs at the conference, found himself under attack by Albany mayor Jerry Jennings and law enforcement officials upon his return.

«I think it's an application of standard principles, but the City Council and the mayor saw fit to sign the law,» said Michael Cardozo, a partner at Proskauer Rose who was the city's corporation counsel under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and handled the case on behalf of an association of carwash owners.

The mayor will be under pressure to appoint a minority candidate, but former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks — who left the force after a power struggle with Bratton — has taken himself out of the running by working for a medical marijuana - distribution business, Compassionate Care Center of New York.

One of the pivotal moments on the topic was when Albanese was attempting to outline his affordable housing plan under questioning from Lehrer of WNYC, who pointed out Albanese was only attacking the mayor's plan without offering his own specifics.

The horndog Democrat — who, after being forced to resign his House seat in a sexting scandal, derailed a 2013 comeback campaign for mayor by sending lewd texts under the pseudonym «Carlos Danger» — could be charged with production of kiddie porn for allegedly soliciting explicit photos of the teen, sources said.

Troy is facing a 9.3 percent property tax increase under the municipal budget proposed by outgoing Democratic mayor Lou Rosamilia, who's not seeking another term.