Sentences with phrase «years as borough president»

Last month, the Norwood News looked back at Carrion's seven years as borough president.

Not exact matches

As borough president, he played a major role in the opening of the Red Hook cruise terminal, attracting new development to Downtown Brooklyn and Coney Island, and convincing the NBA's Nets to move into a new Prospect Heights arena beginning next year.

Mr. Recchia — who served as chairman of the City Council's powerful finance committee — was term - limited out of office last year and decided to challenge Mr. Grimm after failing to secure support in his party to run for City Comptroller or for borough president of his native Brooklyn.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz will deliver her annual «State of the Borough» address, which will include milestones reached in the past years as well as her vision and plans for the future of the borough.

«While I have made no secret of my hope to earn the votes of New Yorkers in 2021 in pursuit of serving them as mayor of the greatest city on Earth, I continue to be focused on my ongoing service to the borough of my birth and my run next year for re-election as Brooklyn borough president,» Adams said.

On Thursday, June 29, 2017, tens of thousands of Bronxites and revelers from all over the region joined Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and State Senator Jeff Klein as they hosted the borough's official kickoff to the year's Independence Day Celebrations, the annual «New York Salutes America» boardwalk festival and fireworks extravaganza at Orchard Beach.

«Having served as Borough President the last three plus years, and living the reality that city agencies play a dominant and outsized role in the local decision - making process, demonstrates unmistakably that non-Staten Islanders still don't truly know or understand our borough, and probably never will,» Oddo said in a statement.

Thursday, January 21, 2016 QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz will deliver her annual «State of the Borough» address, which will include milestones reached in the past years as well as her vision and plans for the future of the borough.

Howard Golden, who served as borough president for 24 years before Marty Markowitz's ascention in 2001, was among the scores of others from the borough's political, legal, judicial and business communities who attended.

The candidacy of a 34 - year - old Bronx assemblyman — and veteran of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee has drawn more enthusiasm nationally than in his native borough, where party leadership perceives him as an overly ambitious interloper using his local office as stepping stone on his way to glory in Washington.

In a letter to the Bronx borough president, a USPS official described the proposed sale of the landmarked building as part a nationwide downsizing meant to stall the mounting losses that have beset the agency in the digital age, culminating in a record $ 15.9 billion net loss last fiscal year.

There are several exciting races in city politics this year, but on Thursday, the battle for Brooklyn's borough president became the exact opposite: Not exciting and not a race, as State Sen. Eric Adams is now running unopposed.

Independence Party candidate Adoflo Carrión Jr., the former two - term Bronx borough president, left the Democratic Party last year to run as an independent for mayor.

An impeccable dresser who wore a bright bow tie at Thursday's ceremony, Mr. Dinkins spent 14 years riding the building's 33 elevators, first as the city clerk, where he oversaw the Manhattan marriage bureau, and then as Manhattan borough president.

Although he was rumored as a possible candidate to run for mayor against Bill de Blasio this year, he is still only registered to run for reelection as borough president.

«For 14 years, I proudly represented the Bronx as borough president, and I'm proud that this report really addresses the needs of the boroughs outside of Manhattan... a critical change that's desperately needed and one, however, that's going to have to be done thoughtfully and gradually,» former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, the MTA vice chairmpresident, and I'm proud that this report really addresses the needs of the boroughs outside of Manhattan... a critical change that's desperately needed and one, however, that's going to have to be done thoughtfully and gradually,» former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, the MTA vice chairmPresident Fernando Ferrer, the MTA vice chairman, said.

This year, the borough president would like to see even more Asians join the boards, as well as people representing other ethnic groups and younger residents.

As a congressman, Mr. Jeffries comes up for reelection on even numbered years, while the borough president's race is lined up with the four - year election cycle for other city offices.

Voters in neighborhoods such as St. Albans, Springfield Gardens and Laurelton came out in large numbers to vote for the Council contenders as well as the mayoral and borough president candidates, but polling stations did not have the packed long lines that were present last year.

They met about five years ago, shortly after Mr. Stringer's 2005 election as borough president, when she visited his office to introduce herself and the Jewish Museum, where she is director of corporate and government relations.

Before serving as borough president, Stringer was in the State Assembly for 13 years.