Category: Borough Hall
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Manhattan Is the Center of Everything, Except the Borough President’s Capital Budget
An Independent Budget Office review requested by Brad Hoylman-Sigal finds Manhattan gets about 13.4 percent of borough presidents’ discretionary capital money, barely more than Staten Island. He wants the “byzantine” formula rewritten. The other four boroughs will have thoughts.
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Jackson Heights, Long Without a Pool, Gets $33.8 Million and a Former Pool Hall
The state’s $10 million grant pushes a Variety Boys & Girls Club center on 34th Avenue past the halfway mark of a $60 million goal. A casino developer bought the land. The governor, in the last weeks of her campaign, insists this is not a Rose Garden strategy.
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“Clove Lakes Is a Jewel”: Staten Island’s Borough Hall Wants the Pipes Pulled Out
Dye tests traced raw sewage in Clove Lakes Park to a Parks Department garage and the Stone House restaurant. Fossella, Lanza and Pirozzolo want the plumbing replaced. A day later, Parks said the restaurant’s concessionaire would do the work.
