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Thursday, December 19, 2019
Wave Hill events January 2‒January 9
Sat, January 4
No Family Art Project
The Family Art Project resumes on January 11.
Sun, January 5
No Family Art Project
The Family Art Project resumes on January 11.
Sun, January 5
Garden and Conservatory Highlights Walk
Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a public tour of seasonal garden highlights. Free with admission to the grounds.
Meet at Perkins Visitor Center, 2PM
Mon, January 6
Wave Hill is closed.
Tue, January 7
Wave Hill House closed for Renovations
Historic Wave Hill House is closed through Friday, January 10, for renovations.
Wave Hill House
Wed, January 8
Wave Hill House closed for Renovations
Historic Wave Hill House is closed through Friday, January 10, for renovations.
Wave Hill House
Thu, January 9
Wave Hill House closed for Renovations
Historic Wave Hill House is closed through Friday, January 10, for renovations.
Wave Hill House
A 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades, Wave Hill’s mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscape, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts.
HOURS – Open all year, Tuesday through Sunday and many major holidays: 9AM–4:30PM, November 1–March 14. Closes 5:30PM, starting March 15.
ADMISSION – $10 adults, $6 students and seniors 65+, $4 children 6–18. Free Saturday and Tuesday mornings until noon. Free to Wave Hill Members and children under 6.
PROGRAM FEES – Programs are free with admission to the grounds unless otherwise noted.
Visitors to Wave Hill can take advantage of Metro-North’s one-day getaway offer. Purchase a discount round-trip rail far and discount admission to the gardens. More at http://mta.info/mnr/html/
DIRECTIONS – Getting here is easy! Located only 30 minutes from midtown Manhattan, Wave Hill’s free shuttle van transports you to and from our front gate and Metro-North’s Riverdale station, as well as the W. 242nd Street stop on the #1 subway line. Free offsite parking is available nearby with continuous, complimentary shuttle service to and from the offsite lot and our front gate. Complete directions and shuttle bus schedule at www.wavehill.org/visit/.
MAYOR DE BLASIO, UNIFORMED OFFICERS COALITION ANNOUNCE TENTATIVE CONTRACT AGREEMENT
City establishes uniformed pattern for 2017-2021 round of bargaining; almost 80 percent of workforce now under contract
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the City of New York has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Uniformed Officers Coalition (UOC). Today’s agreement means that the Administration has now reached agreements with nearly 80 percent of the City workforce. The UOC represents eight unions representing over 16,200 employees combined: the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Correction Captains Association, Assistant Deputy Wardens/Deputy Wardens Association, Lieutenants Benevolent Association, Captains Endowment Association, Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Sanitation Officers Association, and the Uniformed Sanitation Chiefs Association.
This 36-month contract contains annual raises of 2.25%, 2.50% and 3.00%. This represents compounded wage increases of 7.95% over 3 years, a term seven months shorter than the pattern agreements reached with civilian unions representing nearly 75 percent of the workforce.
“The work of these uniformed officers is crucial to the safety and security of our city,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “These employees put their safety on the line every single day, and we are tremendously grateful for their service and proud to pay them a fair wage.”
“After an extensive negotiations process, I’m pleased to report that COBA has reached the best possible economic deal for our over 10,000 members, who will be seeing close to an 8% raise over a 36 month term,” said Elias Husamudeen, President of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. “New York City Correction Officers are the unsung heroes of law enforcement and ensuring they receive the wages and benefits they deserve is paramount to the COBA. We now look forward to negotiating the non-economic components of this contract in the weeks ahead. I thank the leaders of the other uniformed unions who stood shoulder to shoulder with us throughout this process and I thank Mayor Bill de Blasio and OLR Commissioner Renee Campion for their efforts to negotiate this deal as well.”
“This core economic agreement acknowledges the special contribution of our uniformed members and provides a roadmap to resolve open items left over from the last round of bargaining. I want to commend Commissioner Campion and her entire team on their openness and resourcefulness in creating an overall economic agreement that I can rely upon and I look forward to full resolution in the coming days so I can deliver a contract that meets the approval of my members,” said Roy T. Richter, President of the NYPD Captains Endowment Association.
“Today the UFOA was one of eight uniformed unions that agreed to a fair and appropriate collective bargaining agreement for 36 months. This agreement recognizes the important contribution of the members of the UFOA and other uniformed unions to the City. We look forward to further individual unit bargaining to address issues unique to the UFOA membership,” said Jake Lemonda, President of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association.
“The Sanitation Officers Association is proud to have signed this three-year economic agreement. We appreciate the efforts of Commissioner Campion and her team in reaching this fair deal, and also appreciate the leadership of Elias Husamudeen and Roy Richter in leading this coalition of 8 unions," said Joseph Mannion, President of the Sanitation Officers Association, Local 444.
“The agreement we reached today is a fair economic package. I believe working with the Coalition allowed us to reach the best deal we could have achieved," said Patrick Ferraiuolo, President of the Correction Captains Association.
Fair Wages
Because the UOC covers eight separate unions whose contracts will expire at different intervals between 2021 and 2023, each contract will extend a period of three years from the end of the previous contract. Wage increases will constitute 7.95% over three years, on the following pattern:
2.25% on the first day of Year 1
2.50% on the first day of Year 2
3.00% on the first day of Year 3
As was the case in 2014, each individual union within the coalition will have an opportunity to bargain on issues specific to their bargaining unit, within the same overall economic framework.
The net cost of this settlement in the financial plan is approximately $152 million through Fiscal Year 2024. This settlement incorporates health savings from the agreement
The terms of the agreement must be approved by each unions’ membership.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
STATEMENT FROM MAYOR DE BLASIO ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
NEW YORK, NY 10007
“Donald Trump has time and time again put his personal interests above the needs of our country, sacrificing the integrity of our democracy, putting us at risk and damaging our relationships abroad. With today’s vote, the United States House of Representatives is performing their constitutional duty to ensure that no one, not even the President of the United States, is above the law. I especially want to thank Congressman Jerrold Nadler and other leaders from New York’s congressional delegation who have been unrelenting in seeking the truth and ensuring that justice prevails. Today is a solemn day in the history of the United States, but we can be proud that our democracy has prevailed.”
EDITOR'S NOTE:
It is to bad the New York City Council can not Impeach Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The Mayor may be removed from office by the Governor upon charges and after service upon him of a copy of the charges and an opportunity to be heard in his defense. Pending the preparation and disposition of charges, the governor may suspend the mayor for a period not exceeding thirty days.
New York City Charter page 2- Chapter One -The Mayor S 9. Removal of Mayor.
MAYOR DE BLASIO RELEASES FIRST 14th STREET BUSWAY REPORT
Since pilot began in October, bus speeds and ridership have dramatically surged
Mayor Bill de Blasio today released the first data analysis following the implementation of the Transit & Truck Priority (TTP) Pilot along Manhattan’s 14th Street in October 2019. The report shows that ridership and travel speeds along the M14 ‘busway” have increased dramatically, with minimal effect on area traffic. Specifically, bus riders’ crosstown commutes along the M14 are now as much as nine minutes faster while trips in other vehicles along most adjacent streets are less than a minutes lower. Bicycling around the 14th street corridor, where DOT built new protected bike lanes in 2018 along 12th and 13th Streets, has also surged in popularity including on Citi Bikes.
“It’s a new day on 14th street. We are getting New Yorkers moving and saving them time for the things that matter,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “The early results show that this pilot is speeding up buses while allowing for the car drop-offs and deliveries the neighborhood requires. Under our Better Buses plan, we are making changes citywide to fight congestion and to give people faster and more reliable transit.”
“These initial results are very encouraging and promising, showing the positive impacts when New Yorkers are given reliable, affordable, and faster transit,” said Deputy Mayor Laura Anglin. “We will continue to monitor the data from this pilot and are excited to see the enthusiasm New Yorkers have expressed for this busway.”
“I want to thank the Mayor, whose leadership helped make the 14th St. Transit and Truck Priority Street a success, as we can see from this first independent status report,” said DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. “We at DOT are proud that we could help provide thousands of New Yorkers with a triple-win: safer, more sustainable, and faster transportation choices. And while we will continue to work with NYCT and NYPD to make traffic and operational adjustments in and around the pilot area as needed, we thank all the New Yorkers who have shared their enthusiasm for a new and improved 14th Street.”
“We are serious about improving bus service and we need to take bold steps like this to do that,” said Andy Byford, President of MTA New York City Transit. "The 14th Street Busway is wildly popular with riders enjoying 30-40% faster trips, and that should be replicated throughout the city. The 14th Street experience proves that dedicated enforced bus priority makes buses the desired mode to get New Yorkers where they want to go — a major victory for our customers and the environment."
“After years of falling ridership, I'm thrilled that people are taking the M14 bus again in big numbers. I'm encouraged by the initial data and I look forward to working closely with DOT and all stakeholders during the course of this pilot program,” said Speaker Corey Johnson.
The TTP pilot limits crosstown traffic along 14th Street to buses and trucks, but does allow drop-offs from cars as long as drivers take the next available right turn. The pilot took effect on October 3, following the start of M14A/D Select Bus Service on July 1, 2019. The analysis, conducted by Sam Schwartz Engineering and reviewed by DOT, compares data from May/October 2018 to October 2019, the first of several monitoring reports that will be prepared over the course of the pilot project. The initial data, the first of regular quarterly reports, had the following major findings:
M14 A/D SBS bus speeds and ridership have significantly increased:
- Using MTA data, the analysis found travel times along the corridor improved at a rate of 22 to 47%, highlighted by a travel time savings of as much as 9.7 minutes end-to-end for riders in the eastbound direction.
- These speed gains exceed the goal of 25% improvement articulated in Mayor de Blasio’s Better Buses plan.
- At the same time, MTA reports that ridership on the M14 A/D has surged by 24%, with greater gains (30%) on weekends. These changes reverse a five-year trend of declining ridership on this route.
Car traffic on adjacent streets slowed in some cases, but by small amounts:
- DOT closely studied local side streets a particular emphasis of the study and the results showed that travel times on 12th through 19th Streets increased by 0-2 minutes during weekday peak hours, though 17th Street saw a 3.4 minute increase in travel time between 3rd and 9th Avenues.
- At the same time, the volume of vehicles on 12th Street saw very little change and decreased on 13th Streets.
- Travel times on most nearby avenues have improved or have minor increases of less than 1 minute with the exception of 3rd Avenue (the east end of the busway), which saw a slightly longer travel time of 1.6 minutes.
Bike ridership, including on Citi Bike, has surged:
· With no increase in capacity in the community, Citi Bike reported a one-year 17% increase in usage on 14th Street and surrounding streets during the weekday AM peak, outpacing its growth elsewhere in New York City.
· Meanwhile, bike volumes along 12th and 13th Streets, where DOT installed protected bike lanes in late 2018, increased over one year by as much as 234%.
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