Bill de Blasio took which office on 1st January 2014?
"Vision Zero (New York City) Vision Zero is a program created by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014. Its purpose is to eliminate all traffic deaths and serious injuries on New York City streets by 2024. On January 15, 2014, Mayor de Blasio announced the launch of Vision Zero in New York City, based on a similar program of the same name that was implemented in Sweden. The original Swedish theory hypothesizes that pedestrian deaths are not as much ""accidents"" as they are a failure of street design. In 1990 there were around 2000 traffic fatalities. In"
"the heavily Democratic city. The campaign finance activities of the de Blasio 2013 committee to elect became the reported subject of a federal corruption investigation reportedly being led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Other Government authorities are also involved in investigations, some of which reportedly overlap, including whether campaign donors received preferential treatment from City Hall. The investigation was closed in March 2017 with no charges. In 2017, de Blasio won reelection to a second term with 66.5% of the vote against Republican Nicole Malliotakis. De Blasio was sworn into office on January 1, 2014, by former President Bill Clinton."
"think your audience cares about. On January 1, 2014, de Blasio became New York City's new mayor, succeeding Bloomberg. Bloomberg has been a registered Democrat for most of his life. He is regarded as socially liberal or progressive on multiple issues, supporting abortion rights, same-sex marriage, strict gun control measures, environmentalism and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. On economics and foreign issues, Bloomberg has tended towards a conservative or moderate stance. He opposed a timeline for withdrawal from the Iraq War, and criticized those who favored one. Economically, he supports government involvement in issues such as public welfare,"
"office. De Blasio vowed to settle cases with claimants who had ongoing litigation against the police for stop and frisk arrests. The NYPD union appealed the decision without de Blasio's support, and was rejected. De Blasio selected Bill Bratton to be New York City Police Commissioner, a position he previously held under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Bratton, who introduced stop and frisk under Giuliani, promised it would be used ""legally, respectfully"" and less frequently. Some de Blasio supporters were disappointed with Bratton's appointment. In February 2014, de Blasio came under criticism for making a call to the police shortly after"
"to be published) that this total was fewer than 500. though homicides rose (to 523) in 2008, they fell again in 2009 to 466, an almost fifty-year low. Homicides continued to decline, with the city reporting 414 in 2012 and only 333 in 2013. In 2010 the ""New York Post"" reported that NYPD supervisors were under increased pressure to ""fudge"" crime stats by downgrading major crimes to minor offenses. However, the same researchers that provided the evidence ""acknowledged that major crimes were at a historic low."" Bill de Blasio was sworn in as mayor on January 1, 2014. On January"
"for rent-stabilized apartments in 2015. A self-identified populist, de Blasio has expressed concern with the stark level of economic inequality in New York City, which he has called the ""tale of two cities"". He has publicly supported a socially liberal, progressive, and neoliberal discourse on the city's economy, urban planning, public education, police relations, and privatization. De Blasio has maintained high approval rates and levels of public support throughout his tenure, albeit slightly lower than his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. Bill de Blasio was born on May 8, 1961 in Manhattan's Doctors Hospital in New York City. He was born to"
"the first officials that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio named to lead his administration. Calling her a ""change agent and reformer,"" he appointed Carrión commissioner of the city's child welfare agency, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) in December, 2013. “She’s devoted her whole life to our children and she understands from her own life story what it’s like for children to come up in humble circumstances and struggle, and understands how much it is our obligation to protect them all,” said de Blasio. ACS has a $2.8 billion annual budget and 6,500 employees who supervise children in"
"2013, Bill de Blasio was elected as Mayor of New York City, accompanied by his wife, Chirlane McCray. The pair are one of the first interracial couples to stand in power side by side. Both de Blasio and McCray are active political figures, and although they are not exempt from racial discrimination, the attitudes of the world to interracial marriage are much more positive and optimistic than in previous decades. Across much of the world, it is ever increasingly the situation that interracial couples can live, marry and have children without prosecution that was previously rife, due to major changes"
"also on Foley Square in Manhattan. The present mayor is Bill de Blasio, the first Democrat since 1993. He was elected in 2013 with over 73% of the vote, and assumed office on January 1, 2014. The Democratic Party holds the majority of public offices. As of April 2016, 69% of registered voters in the city are Democrats and 10% are Republicans. New York City has not been carried by a Republican in a statewide or presidential election since President Calvin Coolidge won the five boroughs in 1924. In 2012, Democrat Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate of any"
"administration. In 2008 Barrios-Paoli served as Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Commissioner for Aging where she oversaw the city's programs for the elderly. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio appointed Barrios-Paoli his deputy mayor for health and human services on December 12, 2013. She resigned in September 2015 to become the volunteer chairwoman of the board of the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation—which runs the city’s public hospitals. This announcement came during an ongoing crisis of New York City's homelessness (an area of the Deputy Mayor's purview) and increased media scrutiny of the administration's policies. Lilliam Barrios-Paoli Lilliam Barrios-Paoli is a former New York"
"The race to succeed Bloomberg was won by Democratic Party candidate Bill de Blasio, who had pledged to reform the stop-and-frisk program, called for new leadership at the NYPD, an inspector general, and a strong racial profiling bill. The number of stops continued to decrease over the next two years. In August 2014, ""Newsweek"" reported while stop-and-frisk numbers were down, they still happen disproportionately in New York City's African-American and Latino neighborhoods. In 2015, only 22,929 stops were made. Opponents of the program have complained that it is racist and failed to reduce robbery, burglary, or other crime. Manhattan Borough"
"of negotiating New York State's $130 billion budget. Fuleihan retired from the Assembly in 2011 and joined the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering as an executive vice president. Bill de Blasio hired Fuleihan away from SUNY after his victory in the 2013 mayoral election. His first main task as the Budget Director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was negotiating labor contracts that previous mayor, Michael Bloomberg, had left expire for years. Under de Blasio and Fuleihan, the budget of New York City has grown from $72 billion to $85 billion. In late November, 2017, First"
"to Bill de Blasio, coming in second place with 26.2% of the vote. Since 2015, Thompson has served as chairman of the New York State Housing Finance Agency, chairman of the State of New York Mortgage Agency, and since 2016, chairman of the City University of New York board of trustees. He is trustee emeritus of Tufts University (2003-2008) and KeySpan/Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Thompson was selected by the NYS Governor to head NYC's Battery Park City Authority. A lifelong Brooklyn resident, Thompson moved to Harlem in 2008 after marrying Elsie McCabe Thompson, a Harvard-trained lawyer and the former President"
"by the deadline, the 421-a program expired in New York on January 15, 2016. However, debate over how much the program helped to develop affordable housing in the city continued. Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, along with other advocacy groups, worried that the loss of the tax break would make affordable housing too expensive to build in the city, and that the city would have to pay more to build such units. From when Mayor de Blasio took office in January 2014 to the expiration of the program in January 2016, developers received financing for"
"Albanese on the Reform Party line, Akeem Browder on the Green Party line, independent candidates Mike Tolkin and Bo Dietl, and Libertarian Party candidate Aaron Commey. The principal candidates were Joe Lhota on the Republican and Conservative lines, Bill de Blasio on the Democratic and Working Families lines, and some independents. Bill de Blasio won the election in a landslide Democratic primary election, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Bill de Blasio, the city's elected Public Advocate, won 40.8% of the total Democratic primary vote and, by exceeding 40.0%, avoided an October 1 primary runoff with Bill Thompson, who won the second-highest"
"the traditional residence of New York City mayors. They have two children: Dante, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School currently attending Yale University as a member of the class of 2019, and Chiara, a student at Santa Clara University in California. Chiara addressed her own drug use and depression in late December 2013, through a four-minute video that the mayor's transition team released. At a height of , de Blasio is the tallest mayor in New York City's history. De Blasio, an Italian American, regularly conducts interviews, press conferences, and speeches in Italian. Bill de Blasio Bill de Blasio"
"oversee the New York Police Department (NYPD) and created an enforceable ban against bias-based profiling. The Act was passed over then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto. Williams has been an outspoken opponent of the NYPD's approach to Stop-and-frisk in New York City. In July 2013, he introduced ""house party"" legislation where parties with 40 people in attendance or more would have to register with the police. He also wants event organizers who advertise on social media and those charging admission to pay fines. On Jun 29, 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed Williams' legislation, the Fair Chance Act, commonly known as Ban"
"officers turned their backs on him. In 2014, de Blasio released a report dedicated to ""better transit for New York City."" Some of the ideas brought up in the report were to rebuild Penn Station/Madison Square Garden, create more bus rapid transit routes, and a ""Vision Zero"" initiative to reduce traffic-related deaths in the city. A key point of de Blasio's tenure has been building more affordable housing with a goal of building 200,000 units of affordable housing. However, though his plan passed the City Council, it has been very controversial. Groups like New York Communities for Change have come"
"vacate Scheindlin's orders. Bill de Blasio, who succeeded Bloomberg as mayor in 2014, has pledged to reform the stop-and-frisk program, and is calling for new leadership at the NYPD, an inspector general, and a strong racial profiling bill. Crime in New York City Violent crime in New York City has been dropping since 1991 and, , is among the lowest of major cities in the United States. In 2017, there were 290 homicides, the lowest number since the 1940s. Crime rates spiked in the 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic hit the city. According to a 2015 ranking"
"is the current commissioner of the FDNY. He was appointed to this job by New York City mayor Bill de Blasio in June 2014. The FDNY derives its name from the Tweed Charter which created the ""Fire Department of the City of New York"". This is in contrast to most other fire departments in the U.S. where the name of the city precedes the words ""fire department"". Together with ambulances run by certain participating hospitals (locally known as voluntaries, not to be confused with volunteers) and private companies, it is known as the ""FDNY EMS Command"", which is the largest"
"Bill de Blasio expanded the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment to encompass the full scope of the industry, including music, advertising, publishing, digital media and real estate as it relates to the creation of creative content. Menin's portfolio encompasses over 385,000 jobs in New York, more than the financial and insurance sectors combined. In 2016, the office launched a five-part initiative to support women both behind and in-front of the camera in film and television and in theater, the first of its kind for a U.S. city. That same year, Menin launched Made in NY Writers Room, a diversity"
"of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. John W. Wilhelm Previously, Wilhelm became President of HERE on August 1, 1998, elected by the union's General Executive Board to fill a vacancy, and was elected to a full term at the union's 43rd General Convention, July 17, 2001. During his HERE presidency, Wilhelm furthered the union’s reputation as an organizing union, and achieved net growth after more than 25 years of membership decline. The union also substantially diversified its national leadership, including election in 2001 of the union's first women General Officers, its first General Officer of color, its first"
"foster care, provides child abuse prevention services and administers juvenile justice. When she was named ACS commissioner, Carrión said her focus would be on improving preventive services to protect vulnerable children: “We need to focus on tightening the system so that no child falls through the cracks."" Her first month on the job, Mayor de Blasio asked Carrión to investigate the death and abuse of a four-year-old whose file ACS had closed six months earlier. On December 12, 2016, Carrión announced that she is stepping down. Until her appointment by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Carrión served as"
"Bill de Blasio in December 2001. He received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, majoring in metropolitan studies, a program in urban studies, and received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a 1981 Harry S. Truman Scholar. His first job was part of the Urban Fellows Program for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice in 1984. In 1987, shortly after completing graduate school at Columbia, de Blasio was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center in Maryland. In 1988, he traveled with"
"de Blasio to become the Democratic nominee against Republican Joe Lhota in the general election. Exit polls showed that the issue that most aided de Blasio's primary victory was his unequivocal opposition to ""stop and frisk."" After the primary, de Blasio was announced as the nominee on the Working Families Party line. In the general election, de Blasio defeated Lhota in a landslide, winning 72.2 percent to 24 percent. Voter turnout for the 2013 election set a new record low of only 24 percent of registered voters, which ""The New York Times"" attributed to the expectation of a landslide in"
"administration of President Bill Clinton. As the tri-state region's highest-ranking HUD official, de Blasio led a small executive staff and took part in outreach to residents of substandard housing. In 1999, he was elected to be a school board member for Brooklyn School District 15. The following year, he served as campaign manager for Hillary Clinton's successful United States Senate bid. In 2001, de Blasio decided to run for the New York City Council's 39th district, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Kensington, Park Slope, and Windsor Terrace. He won the crowded primary"
"to be lagging in their neighborhood. The Mayor apologized the next day, admitting that ""more could have been done to serve the Upper East Side."" On February 13, heavy snowstorms again hit the East Coast. Under instructions from the Mayor and the School Chancellor Carmen Fariña, the city's public schools were kept open. The decision was criticized by teacher unions, parents and the media as up to 9.5 inches of snow fell that day. By the middle of February, the city had added $35 million to the Sanitation Department's budget for snow removal costs. In July 2014, de Blasio signed"
"York City Mayor Bill de Blasio administering the oath of office. On the Assembly, she serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBEs). Rodneyse Bichotte Rodneyse Bichotte is the Assemblymember for the 42nd District of the New York State Assembly. She is a Democrat. The district includes portions of East Flatbush, Flatbush, Ditmas Park, and Midwood, in Brooklyn. Bichotte was the first Haitian-American to be elected to the State Legislature from New York City. Bichotte was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York to Haitian immigrants, and attended public schools, graduating from LaGuardia"
"Banks, Correction, Mental Hygiene, and Housing. Sepúlveda also serves as the chair of the Subcommittee on Transitional Services, dealing with post-incarceration issues. Sepúlveda's Assembly district covered the Parkchester, Castle Hill, West Farms, Van Nest, and Park Stratton areas. The diverse district includes sizable populations of Latinos, African-Americans, and Southeast Asians, particularly from Bangladesh. Sepúlveda has a history of endorsing populist progressive candidates. Sepúlveda was the first member of the New York State Assembly to endorse future New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in the 2013 New York City Mayoral primary elections as well as the first Assembly member to"
"stated that any plans were far from final. In December 2013, the team and Mayor Bloomberg's administration were close to an agreement over a $350 million stadium near Yankee Stadium. Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, who replaced Bloomberg in January 2014, expressed opposition to the deal, as it involved tax breaks, public financing and a sale or lease of public land. The plan requires buying land currently occupied by a factory, which would have to be rebuilt at another location and demolishing a parking garage, potentially leaving the city responsible for its $240 million debt. In March 2015, New York property"
"then Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, former Mayor Ed Koch, former Governor Mario Cuomo, and Reverend Al Sharpton. On September 15, 2009, de Blasio finished first in the Democratic primary, garnering 33 percent of the vote. He won the run-off primary election on September 29, defeating Green, 62 percent to 38 percent. In the general election on November 3, de Blasio defeated Republican Alex Zablocki in a landslide victory, 78 percent to 18 percent. De Blasio was inaugurated as New York City's third Public Advocate on January 1, 2010. In his inauguration speech, he challenged the administration of Mayor Bloomberg, specifically"
"held on June 11, 2013, which nominated Michael Sanchez. 2013 New York City mayoral election The 2013 New York City mayoral election occurred on November 5, 2013, along with elections for Comptroller, Public Advocate, Borough President, and members of the New York City Council. The incumbent Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-Independent, was term-limited and thus unable to seek re-election to a fourth term in office. Primary elections were held on September 10, 2013. The Republican nominee was former Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joe Lhota. New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio was the Democratic nominee. De"
"the city of Oakland, California. On December 5, 2013, New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio named Bratton as New York City's new Police Commissioner to replace Raymond Kelly. ""The New York Times"" reported that at Bratton's swearing in on January 2, 2014, the new Police Commissioner praised his predecessor Raymond Kelly, but also signaled his intention to strike a more conciliatory tone with ordinary New Yorkers who had become disillusioned with policing in the city: ""We will all work hard to identify why is it that so many in this city do not feel good about this department that"