Sentences with phrase «wealthy city as»

Westminster is a very wealthy city as well as a borough.

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Four out of the top five cities are Pacific Ocean adjacent — San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and San Diego — and in each of these metropolises, more than 14 percent of households are categorized as «wealthy.»

In both cities, which are clearly benefiting from Silicon Valley's tech explosion, more than 20 percent of households qualify as wealthy.

That's what the folks at FindTheBest, an online - research engine, found when they used recent census data to rank the 34 American cities with populations of 500,000 or more based on their percentages of wealthy households (defined as those with an annual income of $ 150,000 or above).

New York is the favorite city of the world's wealthy, as measured by where they want to put their families and their money, according to a new report.

It encouraged private wealth managers to use the city as a regional base in the 1990s just as China's rise created a new generation of wealthy.

The cost of living here is 1,364 percent higher than Texas as a state — a bigger difference than any other wealthy city on our list.

As such, we set out to determine the wealthiest and poorest city in every state.

Using home value data from Zillow and income information from Sperling's Best Places, a city - data aggregator, we identified these cities as the wealthiest and poorest in their state.

Like Paris, the city of London has such a strong level of international «brand recognition» and a perceived safe - haven status that wealthy foreign investors are clamoring to buy property in prime areas such as central London.

But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single - family bungalows are replaced by high - density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.

Compared with their counterparts in advanced, tier 1 mega-cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, residents of smaller tier 4 and tier 5 cities are commonly thought to be less valuable as customers because they aren't as wealthy, have limited shopping needs, low brand awareness and frugal mindsets.

As a wealthy investor he now spends most of his time running his equity portfolio from an office in the heart of rural Leicestershire, far from the noise of the City of London.

This wealthy commercial city, though it was never under Hebrew political control, was allied by ties of trade as well as geographical propinquity.

Dory works as an assistant to a wealthy woman in New York City and she's totally unfulfilled until she's swept up in an adventure to find her missing friend.

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

He calls attention to (1) the degeneration in syncretism of the old Yahweh faith prior to the appearance of the eighth - century prophets; (2) a kind of «emancipation» from Yahweh in increasing dependence upon the maturing structure of the political state; and (3) the dissolution of the old tribal social order with the shift of economic power to the cities, the increasing inability of the farmer, because of the burdens of heavy taxation, to maintain himself as a free man, and the growing concentration of land in the hands of a few wealthy urbanites (cf. Isa.

Perhaps one day the Pret sandwich - box will be as ubiquitous in the wealthier U.S. cities as in British ones, and the global village will get a little more monotonous.

Such a shifting boundary, he suggests, could have significant implications for the wealthy congregation's relationship to the city, and for its identity as a moral community.

Philo of Alexandria belonged to a wealthy and politically influential family; he was well educated in Greek rhetoric and philosophy; but he stated that as a Jew his native city (patris) was Jerusalem.

Cheltenham is notable for its wealthy retirees and its handsome Georgian terraces, a city that comes to life, cynics might say, as Augusta does for the Masters, for a few days of the year.

At the same time, City's wealthy owners seem to have a long term vision for the club as well and after investing heavily on the development of a new youth training facility, the Premier League giants have been scouting number of talented... [Read more...]

At the same time, City's wealthy owners seem to have a long term vision for the club as well and after investing heavily on the development of a new youth training facility, the Premier League giants have been scouting number of talented young players from all around the world in recent times.

The talk of tax cuts come as New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is seeking a tax increase on the wealthy from Albany in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten, a move that faces an uncertain future at the Capitol (Assembly Democrats and IDC Sen. Jeff Klein support it, the Senate Republicans not so much and Cuomo says he wants more information on the plan).

Nixon, an activist, actress and co-star of TV show «Sex and the City,» has echoed the party's criticism of Cuomo as insufficiently liberal, a clandestine enabler of legislative Republicans and beholden to wealthy donors.

Still, he acknowledges he's been flooded with entreaties in recent months, from fellow leaders of the city's black community as well as wealthy white donors, that he's got the best shot at spearheading a coalition to oust the embattled de Blasio.

He'd also like to see an end to vacancy decontrol and a revamp of the 421 - a program that takes the neighborhood Area Median Income into consideration, as opposed to the current system that includes New York City and the wealthier areas of Westchester, Putnam and Rockland Counties.

The senator, who represents Queens Village, St. Albans and Jamaica, is accused of conspiring in November 2012 with a cooperating witness and an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer to bribe city Republican leaders in order to win Wilson - Pakula certificates.

There was no request quite as big as last year's failed bid for a city income tax hike on the wealthy to fund pre-K.

As our Public Health Department knows, these drugs are non-discriminatory: they affect poor inner city youth, blue collar rural families as well as wealthy professional suburbaniteAs our Public Health Department knows, these drugs are non-discriminatory: they affect poor inner city youth, blue collar rural families as well as wealthy professional suburbaniteas well as wealthy professional suburbaniteas wealthy professional suburbanites.

On the wealthier side, there's Murphy, as well as Brian McGrath, a Lowville native who now works as a lawyer in New York City.

NEW YORK — An undercover FBI agent who snared Malcolm Smith and other politicians in a public corruption scandal posed as a wealthy investor of Indian descent named Raj who promised to grease wheels into City Hall and beyond, sources said.

Lagos State has one of the most expensive housing markets of any city in Africa, and, as the rich increasingly use property as a store of value, poor people — especially those who live around wealthy neighbourhoods — are at greater risk of losing their homes.

According to a criminal complaint, Smith met with an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy real estate developer and agreed to bribe leaders of Republican county committees around New York City.

The $ 27 million contract to purchase One Seneca Tower — Buffalo's tallest building — has fallen through after less than two weeks, as the wealthy New York City buyer pulled out of the deal because it was too expensive without investment partners to spread out the costs.

As the wealthiest member of the state Legislature, she would offer an upstate counterbalance to Astorino's suburban New York City roots.

The carriage horse deal underlined the transactional side of a mayor who says he is on a mission to liberalize New York City, even as his efforts are propelled in part by wealthy contributors tied to special interests.

A federal agent who went undercover as a wealthy businessman in the bribery case of state Sen. Malcolm Smith testified Monday that he believes co-defendant and former City Councilman Dan...

Washington State Republican Party chairman Susan Hutchison, center, speaks with media members against a new city income tax on the wealthy that was approved earlier at a Seattle City Council meetincity income tax on the wealthy that was approved earlier at a Seattle City Council meetinCity Council meeting as

Seattle's wealthiest will become the only Washington state residents to pay an income tax under legislation unanimously approved by the City Council, a measure designed as much to raise revenue as to open a broader discussion about whether the wealthy pay their fair share.

Large donations also came from unions — Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union sent $ 84,400 — as well as New York City real estate interests and wealthy New Yorkers: among them, the philanthropist Jane Forbes Clark and the businessman Andrew Saul, who sent $ 25,000 each.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski, who captured both major - party nominations before surviving a spirited challenge from former city councilman and independent candidate W. Michael Donovan to win a third term as mayor of the state's third - largest city earlier this month, was fifth in the Harper survey with 6 percent, placing him slightly ahead of former state Secretary of Revenue Tom Wolf, a wealthy York businessman.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

The ad depicts Nixon taking care of her son at home with her wife, Christine Marinoni, walking him to school with shots of wealthier and poorer parts of the city, as well as footage of her walking through the streets and waiting for the subway.

But Quinn and others point to de Blasio's past statements about taxing the city's wealthy, particularly Wall Street, as a classic flip - flop.

NYC Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has released the second video in as many days in his official campaign to convince Albany to give him the power to tax wealthy city residents and use the revenue to fund universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs.

As a candidate, de Blasio campaigned against the city's skyrocketing inequality, got arrested with health care workers to stop hospital closures, and promised to raise taxes on the city's wealthiest.

The dream is gone - left behind as wealthy Rochester developer David Flaum looks across the Hudson to Rensselaer, where Wednesday night the city council, in a 6 - to - 1 vote, gave Flaum the green light to site a casino - hotel complex on a 24 - acre site along the riverbank.

Mr. Cuomo is planning an aggressive fundraising schedule through the end of the year as potential gubernatorial candidates — including a wealthy Republican businessman and a Democratic former Sex and the City star — weigh challenging him in 2018, according to an advisory his campaign sent supporters that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

He was re-elected in 2013 to a second term as executive of Westchester County, a relatively wealthy swath of suburban New York City.