Sentences with phrase «upstate cities include»

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

The measure comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo has traveled the state to call for a reduction in gang violence through the addition of State Police personnel in Suffolk County and a handful of upstate cities, including Albany and Rochester.

A version of the Senate's anti-sanctuary city bill has already been approved last year, with votes from moderate mainline Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer, Kevin Parker and Tim Kennedy (Democrats from upstate and suburban districts in the Assembly opposed the sanctuary state bill).

While New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg went out of his way to offer support to the governor and for his budget plan, Mayors of upstate cities, including Rochester Mayor Tom Richards, begged for a bail out.

These supporters include former New York City Council candidates Nachman Caller and Isaac Abraham as well as upstate (Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum) Satmar chasidic leader Cheskel Brach, Bobov 45 chasidic leader Ben Barber and Moshe Greenfeld, Lipa Deutsch and Tzvi Gluck.

In late December, the state's education commissioner froze some of the state's $ 700 million dollars in Race to the Top grants, saying some schools, including in New York City and several upstate cities, had not complied with the teacher evaluation requirements.

To mark the occasion, the ride - hailing service said it will match every tip given by riders to drivers across the country today, including in Buffalo and other cities upstate.

«It's a real head - scratcher» as to why Republicans backed the legislation, which also included an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, the re-approval of local sales tax measures and several other measures aimed at upstate communities for flood relief.

Chief among the bills that she says have been altered in negotiations includes increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the New York City area in the coming years and in upstate New York in an undefined time period.

Several presumptive mayoral candidates have expressed concern about the NYPD's tactics following a series of reports from the Associated Press, including one that described officers trolling Muslim student associations» websites and even accompanying one group from City College on a whitewater rafting trip upstate.

In 1997, New York State, New York City, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upstate communities and environmental organizations, including Riverkeeper, joined together to sign an agreement to protect the unfiltered drinking water supply that more than nine million residents of New York City and upstate communities use daily.

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.

Senate Republicans earlier this year were persuaded to return to Albany for an extraordinary session of the Legislature to extend mayoral control of New York City schools, which included a menu of upstate issues.

Fundraising was a concern that Astorino repeatedly went back to, including when asked about why he was able to win so many upstate counties, but was defeated in New York City.

The union cited the push by the Cuomo administration on a variety of major construction projects, including a refurbished LaGuardia Airport and JFK International Airport, spending on airports in upstate cities like Syracuse and Rochester as well as renovations at the state fairgrounds.

And he says mayoral control of education should be extended to more cities, including Yonkers and some bigger cities upstate, like Rochester.

If he believes that the state's tax structure is a job - killer and one of the chief reasons why upstate New York remains mired in a permanent recession, he ought to ask for broader tax cuts, including a decrease in the state's personal income tax rate, which tops out at nearly 9 percent (that does not include the additional tax burden placed on city residents, who pay up to 3.8 percent in personal income taxes.)

But another letter, signed by «elected officials from across Upstate New York» and supporting an increase to $ 15 upstate no later than 2021, includes signatures from several Westchester politicians, including two Yonkers city councilmembers.

Cuomo also said he didn't initially want the program to include New York City and Long Island because «their economy has been doing well» compared with depressed upstate.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

But the Assembly has tied mayoral control to the renewal of sales tax in counties outside of New York City, in upstate and on Long Island, and including counties in DeFrancisco's district.

Similar marches initiated by the Alliance for Quality Education are taking place across the state Saturday, according to the release, including in upstate cities like Buffalo, Kingston, Rochester and Schenectady.

Two percent is from the New York City area, 5 percent from other upstate communities, and 3 percent from out of state, including the Washington, D.C., region.

The city of Oswego faces many of the same economic challenges facing cities all over upstate New York, including plant closings and the flight of you, educated adults from the area.

The scandal over whether Eliot Spitzer's office improperly used the State Police to produce damaging evidence that former State Senate majority leader Joe Bruno improperly used state - owned vehicles (cars and aircraft) to travel from upstate to New York City on trips that included both state business and politicking?

The business - backed group's endorsements are entirely Republican (the group did endorse one Democrat, Assemblyman Robin Schimminger) after a year in which business interests decried a legislative session that included the approval a minimum wage increase that will reach $ 15 in the New York City region and $ 12.50 in upstate New York in the coming years.

The money was sent to the state in the wake of damaging storms Hurricane Sandy, Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Lee and meant to conduct a tourism campaign for the affected areas, which included swaths of both upstate New York and the New York City metropolitan area.

It also includes dairy farms and university cities, and in nonpresidential elections it leans Republican: 43 of 51 upstate counties voted for the Republican challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo two years ago, driven partly by opposition to tough new state gun restrictions he championed after the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn..

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.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

Even though their ridership is nowhere near the Big Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for service.

Miner has pushed in recent years for a renewed focus on upstate infrastructure projects, including her city's troubled water and sewer system.

The bill would place stores in several upstate cities, including Buffalo.

Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office in 2011, there's been a succession of severe storms, including hurricanes Irene and Lee that brought massive flooding to upstate and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 that flooded beach front communities on Long Island and submerged portions of the New York City subway system in corrosive salt water.

To prevent the impending lapse of mayoral control over New York City schools, the state Legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo passed a two - year extension Thursday as part of a larger omnibus bill, which included a pension enhancement for certain uniformed workers, special recognition for former Governor Mario Cuomo, and several benefits for upstate areas.

The governor identified other issues as priorities for being included within the budget, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.50 statewide and to $ 11.50 in New York City, a series of tax cuts, and a set of economic and infrastructural revitalization proposals aimed at upstate New York.

Stebbins said the lack of action here is the main cause for a spate of New York City hospital closures and a lack of access to care in a number of upstate counties, including 11 that have no OB / GYN services.

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.

«The Governor is committed to utilizing the settlement money in a fiscally responsible way, including one - time allocations to replace aging infrastructure, rebuild upstate cities and help local governments cut costs and lower property taxes,» she said in a prepared statement.

However, the Assembly has tied mayoral control to the renewal of sales tax in counties outside of New York City, in upstate and on Long Island and including counties in DeFrancisco's district.

Sources in the state Capitol said yesterday that talks are centered on a lower wage rate for upstate and a longer phase - in of the $ 15 rate in the New York City suburbs, including Long Island.

The communities that have faced funding issues from the state Office for the Aging include seven in New York City and two upstate communities, including Rochester.

A «jobs tour» will include similar events in other upstate cities.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo continued the roll out of his 2015 agenda Tuesday with details of an infrastructure plan that includes upgrading New York City region airports to providing broadband for upstate rural areas.

The current state budget includes $ 300 million for full - day pre-K programs in New York City and $ 40 million for those in the rest of the state, but Capital reported this week that few upstate districts plan to participate.

The proposed change to the law would also apply to all areas outside of New York City, including upstate and Long Island.

On the campaign trail, Cuomo said he wants to create a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization fund for cities, including Syracuse, outside of Buffalo.

In August of 2009, the SLA had 3,001 pending license applications, including approximately 2,000 in New York City and approximately 1,000 in the rest of State, while applicants were forced to wait up to a year in New York City and six months upstate.

Child poverty is 30 % in NYC and in excess of 50 % in several upstate cities, including Buffalo, Syracuse and Schenectady.

It had broad criteria for spending — eligible projects in New York City or Long Island need to «create or retain private - sector jobs» and «enhance the environment and quality of life for New York State residents» — but was included to offset $ 1.5 billion that Cuomo sought for an economic development competition upstate.