Sentences with phrase «upstate cities get»

As the mayor has pointed out many times before, other upstate cities get much more funding, a problem exacerbated by the fact that a majority of property in Albany is tax - exempt.

2016 could be the year in which upstate cities get an economic boost from mixed martial arts.

Not exact matches

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

They've got a city chair and an upstate chair and they're co-chairs of the statewide party.

That includes the suburbs and upstate, whose residents have often felt their needs get overshadowed by the city's.

The chairman said he believes Cuomo was able to win re-election two years ago because his opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, only got 18 percent of the vote in New York City, though he carried almost all of upstate.

Besides money, Cuomo has been an active promoter of tourism to upstate New York, which gets almost nothing of the 54 million people that visit New York City, the most visited city in the natCity, the most visited city in the natcity in the nation.

A host of other special interests — ranging from upstate mayors and county executives to Mothers Against Drunk Driving to the NAACP — all lauded Cuomo's plan, pointing to everything from ride - sharing that gets drunks off the road to transit efforts that will help inner - city workers get to jobs.

Meanwhile, those upstate say they deserve a better deal at the expense of New York City, because they are getting robbed.

Buffalo and other poorer cities will soon experience the sharpest cuts ever in the food stamp program if House Republicans get their way — and upstate food producers and advocates for the poor are equally upset about it.

Several proposals have been floated to get the Senate's Republican majority on board, including lengthening the wage's implementation over several years upstate and on Long Island, while enacting the higher minimum wage more quickly in New York City.

In February, for example, the Siena Research institute asked voters whether lawmakers should get a pay raise if they enacted ethics reforms; New York City residents said yes by a 50 percent to 48 percent margin, while only 34 percent of upstate residents agreed.)

Public schools in the city of Yonkers will get an additional $ 25 million dollars in aid, but Cuomo had to abandon a last minute proposal to give an additional $ 75 million dollars to struggling upstate schools.

Amedore then tells a group of voters that «we're tired of having this disproportionate representation, always taking care of New York City, and upstate New York only getting crumbs.»

We get it: the City hates Gillibrand because she represented upstate and it feels entitled to both seats.

Under the latest proposal, sources say New York City would see a $ 15 wage after three years, the neighboring suburban counties, including those on Long Island and Westchester, would see $ 15 after four years and upstate New York would get an increase to $ 13 or another number less than 15.

That's the general sense I got speaking with budget experts and financial watchdogs when it comes to struggling local governments and whether there are any parallels between the Motor City's bankruptcy and the troubles facing upstate cities like Rochester, Syracuse and Utica.

«For too long, too many of our City's young people have been shunted off upstate — hundreds of miles from family, school and community and far from the support they need to get back on course,» Bloomberg and Sharpton said.

Perkins indicated that he would prefer the proximity of City Hall to the drive upstate, and asserted its overwhelmingly Democratic composition would enable him to get more done as lawmaker.

New York City officials succeeded in getting the DEC to ban drilling in the city's watershed region in upstate New YCity officials succeeded in getting the DEC to ban drilling in the city's watershed region in upstate New Ycity's watershed region in upstate New York.

Astorino — and any Republican — knows the basic formula for his election is to run up the score upstate (where between 40 - 50 percent of the electorate lives), try not to get creamed in New York City and fight to the death on Long Island and the northern suburbs, his home turf.

It's still not known whether the governor would get his wish to have greater control over the exact school aid distributions for New York City schools and large upstate school districts, including Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse.

«It's can you build an infrastructure and run a race that will fit the mold of winning upstate, doing decent in the suburbs, and getting 30 to 35 % in the city.»

This story is about our Progressive Champion Mayor steering $ 100,000 to an upstate party committee from a guy in Texas who doesn't donate in New York, but who also just got some significant goodies from the City of New York.

The basic political math of any Democratic gubernatorial candidate goes like this: run up the score in New York City, win in the suburbs and don't get creamed upstate.

Troy's mayor told city officials the upstate city's budget problems won't get any better in 2017, making services difficult to pay for.

Associated Press just reported that the state Racing and Wagering Board is going to move quickly to try and get gamblers in New York City to sign up for internet betting accounts with Off Track Betting Corporations on Long Island, or upstate.

Under that agreement, New York City schools will get $ 51 million, Long Island schools will get $ 45 million and upstate schools will get $ 134 million.

Weather aside, what's kept New York from being like California, for better or worse, is the state Senate, which Democrats have been thisclose to flipping for years now without ever quite getting there, what with upstate's fear of the city running the whole show, and Democratic senators taking lulus (Albany - speak for bribes) and other enticements to switch teams and caucus with the GOP, and Cuomo content with that power - sharing arrangement that positions him at the top of the three - men - in - a-room triangle.

Despite having taken more than four hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer - funded government salaries, Claudia Tenney has gotten more done for New York City than her upstate constituents.

Should the insurance bill pass, Uber would still have to get regulatory approval to actually operate in upstate New York and Long Island from one municipality at a time, be it Poughkeepsie, Utica, Ithaca, Buffalo, etc. (In New York City, where ridesharing is forbidden, Uber now operates mostly as a black car service).

New York City will go to $ 15 per hour within three years, while upstate has until 2021 to get to $ 12.50, with future increases based on the economic climate.

ALBANY — Residents in some parts of upstate New York got roughly 30 times as much money per capita in the latest round of state funding awards than residents of New York City.

Many children may not be getting tested for lead in their blood in a city that has been described as «ground zero» for the lead poisoning across upstate New York.

We suspect that Gov. Cuomo will get some form of free college tuition in the budget at a price tag of $ 163 million or so, and we suspect that Uber will be coming to upstate cities, although we wonder how this ever became an issue that is important to anyone.

Jacobs said he expects Rice to get some support upstate and considerable support in the city, putting her over the top.

«For too long, too many of our City's young people have been shunted off upstate — hundreds of miles from family, school and community and far from the support they need to get back on course.

Taking a broader view is paying off: In 2015 Shainman organized the show «El Anatsui: Five Decades» at his 20,000 - square - foot exhibition space in upstate New York, and «on the opening Saturday in the middle of the summer, two hours north of the city, we got five or six hundred people to come see the show — he's a rock star.»

I know real estate in upstate NY isn't too pricey, but I wanted to get a feel for some other cities in the US where one could buy duplexes, triplexes, and even 4 - plexes for less than $ 50,000.