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The next meeting of Teamsters Local 707 is Sunday October 26.
The meeting notice is not posted on the website because......
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Important!
707 Membership Meeting and YRCW Meeting and Ratification Vote, date and
information is posted in the Local Union Meeting Section of our website
Immediately Followed By A Special YRCW Meeting
And Ratification Vote
Local 707 General Membership Meeting
Will be held at:
Plattdeutsche Park Restaurant
1132 Hempstead Turnpike
Franklin Square, NY 11010
on
Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:00 a.m.
Road Drivers who cannot make the meeting on Sunday, you will be
able to vote on Saturday January 25, 2014
at 10:00 am - 12:00 noon at Teamsters Local 707
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There shall be no EQUAL JUSTICE in New York. What Attorney General in a less than pandering mood would allow Nassau OTB, a public benefit corporation, to close on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday, in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palmay?
The New York Times endorses a man of religious preference which may not be your religious preference if you have a religious preference.
The attorney general and the comptroller of New York State are
two of the most powerful officials in the state. The incumbents in
those offices — Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, and
Thomas DiNapoli, the state comptroller — have exercised their powers in
ways that have benefited the public, and both deserve re-election.
The attorney general and the comptroller of New York State are
two of the most powerful officials in the state. The incumbents in
those offices — Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, and
Thomas DiNapoli, the state comptroller — have exercised their powers in
ways that have benefited the public, and both deserve re-election.
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John is counsel at Chadbourne and Parke
and Co-Founder and CEO of the Pataki-Cahill Group, LLC. From 2002
through 2006, John served as the Chief of Staff to the Governor of New
York State. In this role, he was responsible for running all aspects of
the state government and was the highest ranking appointed official in
New York State Government. In May of 2005, John was also given the
primary responsibility for the coordination of the rebuilding efforts in
lower Manhattan. Prior to his appointment as Chief of Staff, John
served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor where he helped lead
the effort on behalf of the state’s response to the attacks of
September 11th, 2001. John was responsible for negotiations with the
state legislature, as well as the Governor’s point of contact with the
White House, Congress and federal agencies.From 1997 to 2001, John
served as the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental
Conservation where he led the State agency with 3,000 employees and a
$500 million annual budget. His responsibilities included enhancing and
protecting the State’s vast natural resources and the successful
implementation of the 1996 $1.75 billion Clean Water Air Bond Act, a
landmark piece of legislation. John also led the State’s efforts to
preserve over one million acres of open space. Prior to this, John was
the General Counsel to the Department of Environmental Conservation and
previously was a partner at the law firm of Plunkett & Jaffe, P.C., a
firm focused on environmental and government law.John completed his
undergraduate degree at Fordham University, and attended Pace University
School of Law where he received both a J.D. and Masters Degree in
Environmental Law. John formerly served as Chairman of the Environmental
Facilities Corporation and Vice-Chairman of the New York State Energy
and Research Development Authority, as well as serving on the Olympic
Regional Development Authority, Great Lakes Commission and the
Adirondacks Park Agency. John has received numerous awards for his
dedicated service to New York and the community.John resides in Yonkers,
NY with his wife and children where he enjoys completing Iron Man
competitions, triathlons and marathons.
No Building Is Left Unturned in One Man’s Search for Cornerstones
Six-Year Tally by Foot and Bike Tops 1,100; New Ones Rare as a Flying Buttress
Cornerstones are going out of
style for new construction in Manhattan. William D. McCracken has made
it his mission to document the ones that remain. Photo: Andrew Lamberson
for The Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK—
William D. McCracken
eyed his target on the far side of a security checkpoint outside
New York Police Department headquarters. Metal detectors ringed the
fortress-like building, and the police officer on guard was wary.
Mr.
McCracken’s intentions weren’t nefarious. All he wanted was to snap a
photograph of the cornerstone, dated 1973, at One Police Plaza in lower
Manhattan. The cop barred him from the restricted area, then borrowed
Mr. McCracken’s camera and took the photo himself.
For the past
six years, the 39-year-old real-estate lawyer has been combing both
sides of every street in Manhattan in a quest to document the dated,
inscribed rocks that serve as birth certificates for buildings. By foot
and on bike, often accompanied by his Labradoodle named Martin, Mr.
McCracken has amassed an online archive of the island’s 1,100-plus
surviving cornerstones. (See some on an interactive map.)
“I’m
90% sure I have 90% of them,” he says. “And I’m 100% sure I don’t have
100% of them.” His wife Amy usually sleeps in when he rises at 6 a.m. to
find new cornerstones. “He’s mission-driven,” she says. “It can be a
grind.”
Mr. McCracken’s search has gotten tougher as the venerable
cornerstone is abandoned by developers. The load-bearing stones have
largely gone the way of the flying buttress since the postwar advent of
reinforced concrete and steel-frame construction. The walls of such
buildings are often hung from above.
The 20-ton granite block
laid as the cornerstone for the Freedom Tower was removed in 2006 when
the skyscraper was reconfigured for security reasons and won’t be part
of the soon-to-open tower now called One World Trade Center.
Historically,
a building in New York City rose in relation to its cornerstone, with
facade walls aligned in reference to the rock. The block typically bore a
date and often a message. “Jesus Christ Himself Being the Chief
Cornerstone” was big in the 1880s and 1890s.
Ceremonies and
parades accompanied cornerstone-layings, often led by Freemasons who
sprinkled a rock with corn and anointed it with wine and oil to
represent plenty, refreshment and joy. Dignitaries made speeches and
wielded trowels.
“It’s a noble tradition that enriches the experience of city
life, but it’s gotten almost completely forgotten,” says Robert A.M.
Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and lead designer of 15
Central Park West, a condominium building which has a cornerstone, and
several other New York luxury condos which don’t.
The
cornerstone reigned when buildings were heavily loaded at the ground.
One of Manhattan’s oldest survivors, dated 1797, anchored the original
Bank of New York Building at 48 Wall Street.
That stone, salvaged
from a long-ago demolition, now sits in the 1927 building on the site.
Mr. McCracken, a cornerstone purist, doesn’t deem it New York’s oldest.
He bestows that honor on the oldest stone still housed in its original
building, which he believes is St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Harlem,
dated 1872.
The world’s oldest cornerstones hail from the
European medieval period, including eight laid between 1277 and 1632 in
British abbeys, chapels, colleges and gardens, though it is not clear
how many of those stones survive, says S. Brent Morris, author of the
book “Cornerstones of Freedom: A Masonic Tradition.”
Even a criminal lawyer in the State of New York might be able to
argue and/or form an opinion as to why Nassau OTB should either be OPEN on BOTH Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday and Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday or CLOSED on BOTH Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday?
Crime pays? Work is a crime?
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Thanks for
the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy,
if you give me a mailing address.
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New
York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking
revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close
on holidays. New York State Racing Law
bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the
state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even
though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever
you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who
makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic:
“How is the business going to make money if you’re not open
to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the
Federation of
Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is
open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,”
Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for
the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose
millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such
as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne
running. One option: OTBs could just stay
open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just
that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and
OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money.
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New
York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm
Sunday.
Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race
tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday
and Easter Sunday.
While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors
open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board
stating that it couldn't do so.
"We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's
business is a simulcasting business.
"
Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on
tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and
Gulfstream Park in Florida.
While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm
Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down.
"With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off
significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view
that we could open (yesterday).
"
The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs.
"I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost
respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this
one," Casey said.
The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday
it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on
NYCOTB.
"This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the
board's interpretation.
"
Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
Bettors and Nassau County sometimes die bankrupt like NYC OTB?
ENLARGE
2166 Broadway
Manhattan’s cornerstones track the city’s economic cycles. Mr.
McCracken has found 165 surviving pieces from the prosperous 1920s, 89
from the 1930s as the Great Depression raged and 53 from the 1940s, when
men and materiel shipped off to World War II. His Flickr page, “Cornerstones of NY,” displays 137 cornerstones from the 1950s and 176 in the 1960s, during the long postwar building boom.
The
cornerstone decline began in the 1970s, when New York City nearly went
bankrupt and public and private construction dried up. He has found 57
pieces from that decade and just 35 since 2000.
One of the most recently laid stones in Manhattan: an office building at 250 W. 55th St., dated 2013 and developed by
Boston Properties
Inc.
“The cornerstone was always a way to tell the world, ‘Yes,
we built this, and we’re proud of it,’ ” says Mr. McCracken, an
Oklahoma native who had never seen New York before he arrived with three
suitcases in 1997. “It was a public expression of civic pride in the
enterprise of building that doesn’t seem to be present anymore.”
Cornerstone
festivities are now largely supplanted by “topping-out” ceremonies.
“It’s become a full-blown P.R. event to generate interest in a
building,” says Kenneth Lewis, a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
partner who was project manager of Time Warner Center.
That building has no cornerstone. When the first part of its superstructure topped out at 350 feet in 2002, then-Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
,
jazz virtuoso
Wynton Marsalis
and 1,500 spectators gathered to watch.
Many institutions
once graced by cornerstones now forsake them. Columbia University
installed 23 on its Morningside Heights campus from 1895 to 1969. But
cornerstones are nowhere to be found in two buildings rising on the
college’s Manhattanville campus.
“We’re not militantly opposed to
cornerstones,” says Philip Pitruzzello, a Columbia vice president. “But
our design plan calls for high degrees of transparency and glass coming
down to meet the street with a light touch. A cornerstone isn’t the
most important thing in that vocabulary.”
They still speak to
Mr. McCracken, and he can’t resist the hunt. He visited Rockefeller
Center dozens of times before maintenance workers moved two massive
planters so he could get a clear shot at the cornerstones for the
British Empire Building (1932) and La Maison Française (1933).
When
his wife was 8½ months pregnant, a family friend offered a dry run of
the drive to the hospital. Mr. McCracken, who has no car, saw his chance
to bag a long-sought stone: the United Nations Secretariat, dedicated
by President Harry Truman in 1949. It was only a bit out of the way.
“We
took a little detour,” Mr. McCracken says. His wife adds: “I will
always associate that cornerstone with the birth of my daughter.”
"criminal lawyer"?
Even a criminal lawyer in the State of New York might be able to argue and/or form an opinion as to why Nassau OTB should either be OPEN on BOTH Roman Catholic Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday and Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday or CLOSED on BOTH Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday?
Crime pays? Work is a crime?
HI-
Thanks for
the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy,
if you give me a mailing address.
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New
York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking
revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close
on holidays. New York State Racing Law
bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the
state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even
though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever
you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who
makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic:
“How is the business going to make money if you’re not open
to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the
Federation of
Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is
open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,”
Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for
the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose
millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such
as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne
running. One option: OTBs could just stay
open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just
that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and
OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money.
To reach the campaign, please contact us at the mailing address or
phone number below, or call or visit one of our field offices: Phone:(516) 307-9820
New
York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm
Sunday.
Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race
tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday
and Easter Sunday.
While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors
open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board
stating that it couldn't do so.
"We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's
business is a simulcasting business.
"
Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on
tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and
Gulfstream Park in Florida.
While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm
Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is down.
"With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off
significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view
that we could open (yesterday).
"
The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs.
"I respect the Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost
respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this
one," Casey said.
The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday
it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on
NYCOTB.
"This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the
board's interpretation.
"
Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.
Bettors and Nassau County sometimes die bankrupt like NYC OTB?
both seem to AGREE that New York may impose its religious preference upon you?
CALL ROB ASTORINO, 914-481-3672, IF YOU THINK THAT NASSAU OTB SHOULD EITHER BE CLOSED ON BOTH GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER SUNDAY AND PALM SUNDAY AND ROMAN CATHOLIC EASTER SUNDAY AND PALM SUNDAY OR OPEN ON BOTH ROMAN CATHOLIC PALM SUNDAY AND EASTER SUNDAY AND GREEK ORTHODOX PALM SUNDAY AND GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER SUNDAY
ANDREW CUOMO AND ROB ASTORINO NEED TO TELL NEW YORK WHEN EASTER SUNDAY AND PALM SUNDAY ARE
SEE ALSO NY CONST ART 1 SEC 3
HI-
Thanks for
the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy,
if you give me a mailing address.
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New
York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking
revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close
on holidays. New York State Racing Law
bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the
state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even
though they could easily broadcast races from out of state. “You should be able to bet whenever
you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who
makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic:
“How is the business going to make money if you’re not open
to take people’s bets?” Elias Tsekerides, president of the
Federation of
Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is
open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday. “I don’t want discrimination,”
Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for
the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.” OTB officials have said they lose
millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such
as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne
running. One option: OTBs could just stay
open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just
that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and
OTB was fined $5,000. Easy money.
days that tracks are running that bettors want to bet and you write your customers off as dead, you have....
Why are all the NY OTBs closed on Roman Catholic Palm Sunday and Roman Catholic Easter Sunday in preference to Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday and Greek Orthodox Palm Sunday? See NY Const. Art. 1, Sec 3.
Barring a course
correction in the finances of Nassau County, residents could soon find
themselves wasting away again in Gulottaville.
Republican Thomas Gulotta was
Nassau executive from 1987 to 2001. His optimistic budgeting and
unwillingness to raise taxes were disastrous. By the time he left
office, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority had been created as a
fiscal watchdog and the state had to throw in a $100-million bailout.
Borrowing was rampant and Gulotta's successor, Democrat Thomas Suozzi,
had to hike property taxes 19 percent to control the damage.
Now County Executive Edward
Mangano is headed down the same path: rosy revenue projections, a
refusal to raise taxes and a failure to cut spending enough to balance
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The situation is already a recipe for
disaster, and now there's a new, poisonous ingredient. Through June,
Nassau had a 9 percent decline in sales tax revenue. That leaves the
county $48 million short thus far in 2014. That's another huge hole in a
$2.7-billion budget already facing an $80-million deficit.
Worse, County Comptroller George
Maragos said this lower level of sales tax revenue may be the new norm
because post-Sandy home repairs are mostly done and Internet shopping is
siphoning off local retail. That means Nassau's projections for future
sales tax revenues could fall short through 2017.
Sales tax isn't the only problem.
Practically every revenue increase that Mangano and NIFA chairman Jon
Kaiman need to pay the potential $300-million cost of lifting the
authority's wage freeze this past spring is iffy or evaporating:
Increased mortgage recording fees have been touted to bring in more money, but home sales are falling.
The county is hoping for revenue
of $30 million per year from 56 cameras that will issue tickets for
speeding in school zones. The Nassau County Office of Legislative Budget
Review says $12 million a year is likelier. Nassau is counting on $15 million
in annual revenue from a parlor with video lottery terminals run by the
Nassau Off-Track Betting Corp. starting in 2015. But 2014 is more than
half gone and the OTB has no site or plan.
A bill passed by the State Senate
and Assembly to get Nassau out of paying commercial property tax refunds
on overpayments to school districts and municipalities could save the
county $80 million per year. It would have commercial property owners
pay into an escrow account to fund their own refunds. But the bill
hasn't been signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, it could be challenged in
court, and the plan would not help the budget until 2017.
Mangano has cut payroll, but the
cuts haven't always saved money. The county attorney's office reduced
its staff from 108 to 73 between 2009 and 2013, saving $3 million per
year. But spending on outside law firms, including ones with strong ties
to Mangano and county Republican leader Joseph Mondello, increased $4
million per year.
And part-time and seasonal
workers, many of them politically connected, are being paid as much as
$50 per hour, and $75,000 per year, for jobs like golf course attendant.
Nassau will have to keep
borrowing, and the cost of that borrowing could surge. Ratings agencies
are worried about the sales tax shortfall and already have downgraded
Nassau's debt several times since Mangano took office. The county
already has about $4 billion in debt, including unpaid property tax
refunds.
Don't hold your breath waiting for
Mangano to balance the budget. That leaves NIFA, which can block
borrowing and contracts, and freeze wages, but hasn't been rigorous
enough.
It also has the power -- never before used -- to modify the budget and cut spending. It may have to now.
Nassau is headed toward
insolvency. Its multiyear plan is wishful thinking. NIFA must supply
some bite to go with its bark. Otherwise the next stop for the county is
Gulottaville, an easier place to get to than to leave.
WHAT: Meeting of the New York Gaming Facility Location Board
WHEN: Monday, October 20, 2014 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Empire State Development Corporation
35th Floor Conference Room
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
NOTE:
·No decision or announcement regarding casino gaming facility license recommendations is anticipated at this meeting.
·As
a matter of convenience to ease entry to the meeting location, members
of the public or media wishing to attend the meeting in person are
encouraged to contact the N.Y.S. Gaming Commission’s
press office at 518-388-3415 or info@gaming.ny.gov by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 20, 2014. All attendees must have valid photo ID to be admitted to the meeting location.
MEETING AGENDA
1.Call to Order
2.Consideration of Meeting Minutes for August 7, 2014
3.Motion
to Enter into Executive Session for the Express Purpose of
Consideration of the Financial History of Particular Persons or
Corporations,[1]
specifically Applicants Responsive to the Request For Applications to Develop and Operate a Gaming Facility in New York State
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