MAYOR BLOOMBERG, SPEAKER QUINN AND COUNCILMEMBER BREWER ANNOUNCE PLANS TO PROTECT NEW YORKERS FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE IN PUBLIC PARKS AND BEACHES
New Law Will Expand City’s Smoke Free Air Act
New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Councilmember Gale Brewer and Mayor Michael Bloomberg today announced plans to expand the Smoke Free Air Act in New York City to include parks and beaches.
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New Yorkers have gone to the polls throughout the day ready to carry out their civic responsibility and right by voting in today’s primary elections. However, many were denied the clear, easy process they deserved. There have been reports that voters were faced with confusion, lack of information and difficulties.
The Board of Elections demonstrated a troubling inability to fully execute a new system that they have had months to prepare for.
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“My deepest sympathies go out to the family of Council Member Tom White; his mother Marie White, his children: Bryan D. White, Lucile Precious Middleton, daughter-in-law Seleste White and grandchildren Lamar White and Jacob. Tom spent most his life serving the people of Southeast Queens, working to support communities that faced great challenges. As chair of our Economic Development Committee he fought for programs that helped many of these neighborhoods on the path to recovery.
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Council Also Votes on Legislation Improving Access to Information on Building Owners and
Bill Requiring the City Clerk to Provide Information on Same-Sex Marriages
City Hall – At today’s Stated Meeting, the Council will vote to approve a proposal for 15 Penn Plaza on the Westside of Manhattan. The project will create 7,000 new jobs and will include $150 million in transportation infrastructure improvements to the area.
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August 24th, 2010 – As part of the New York City Council’s continued efforts to help New Yorkers get good jobs, Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo today launched a citywide “Back to School” campaign to get more New Yorkers to sign up for the GED and for free education courses. The Speaker and Council Member, joined by Elyse Barbell of the Literacy Assistance Center, spoke with Executive Director Wanda Salaman and dozens of volunteers from Mothers on the Move – a community organization dedicated to social and economic justice – who will be assisting with outreach efforts in the Bronx.
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Today, the Mayor signed a package of recycling bills that will revolutionize recycling in New York City through a variety of initiatives including expanded plastic recycling, a new clothing and textile recycling program, and improved public space recycling. The package of legislation represents the first significant expansion of the city’s residential recycling program since it was created in 1989.
Speaker Christine C.
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Today, Speaker Quinn and Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito joined the New York Community Garden Coalition and other advocates called for a more permanent protection of the city’s community gardens, which are due to lose their existing protections this September.
Statement from Speaker Quinn:
“The City Council has a long history of working to preserve and protect New York City’s community gardens.
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I want to thank the Landmarks Preservation Commission for making the right decision on the merits of this application. The Commission was correct to deny landmark status for the old Burlington Coat Factory. Any attempt to derail this development because of its future uses would at its core be un-American and a violation of all of our first amendment rights.
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Tenants, left in debt-ridden properties from the Milbank-LNR deal, will be forced to live in unsafe, dangerous buildings that are in utter disrepair
BRONX, NY, August 3, 2010 – Speaker Quinn, Council Member Annabel Palma, joined by the Legal Services of New York City in the Bronx, Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, today protested in front of one of the 10 overleveraged properties that are part of a predatory equity deal between Milbank, LNR and a new buyer, which will put hundreds of tenants in unsafe living conditions.
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Staten Island, NY – Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Council Member Debi Rose today announced an aggressive plan to combat the recent wave of hate crimes plaguing Staten Island. The plan, carefully crafted with input from the community as well as elected and law enforcement officials, seeks to raise awareness, and foster a dialogue in Staten Island aimed at ceasing bias-related crime.
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