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$50 million, four-year upgrade at the Port of Albany should start this summer to help the facility handle more and heavier cargo, including heavy generator exports from General Electric in Schenectady. Plans call for a new 45,000-square-foot warehouse, along with a roll-on/roll-off ramp to accommodate movement of generators, which are shipped to the port on barges from Schenectady along the Erie Canal ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today unveiled a comprehensive package to better protect New Yorkers, as well as government entities, from the ever-growing threat of cyber-attacks. The package includes the strengthening and modernization of cybercrime and identity theft laws, as well as the creation of a new Cyber Incident Response Team to provide cybersecurity support to state entities, local governments, critical infrastructure ...

ALBANY — The Rochester Institute of Technology will receive a $70 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to lead a national consortium that will develop new ways for clean energy in manufacturing. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced the award for the Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute after they and Rep. Louise Slaughter pressed for the money in recent months ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, today unveiled the 1st signature proposal of his 2017 agenda: making college tuition-free for New York’s middle-class families at all SUNY and CUNY two- and four-year colleges. New York’s tuition-free college degree program, the Excelsior Scholarship, is the first of its kind in the nation and will help alleviate the crushing burden of student ...

This holiday season, Ostroff Associates has continued our longstanding tradition of giving back to our community by partnering with five local charities to make a difference in the lives of those in need in the Capital Region. This year, Ostroff Associates donated hundreds of food and household items, toiletries bus passes, toys, and winter clothing for men, women and children. In distributing our donations, we had the privilege ...

Rochester, NY, December 20, 2016 — United Way of Greater Rochester announced receipt of a $250,000 grant awarded through the Walmart Foundation’s State Giving Program to assist with its poverty reduction efforts through the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative (RMAPI). A ceremony was held at the Walmart Supercenter on Hudson Avenue in Rochester with New York State Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle ...

After years of negotiations and bickering, the City Council on Thursday approved plans to allow a developer to buy the air rights from a crumbling pier in Hudson River Park for $100 million, money that would be used to keep the one-time cargo pier from falling into the water. In return, the developer — a joint venture of Atlas Capital Group and Westbrook Partners — obtained approvals for a vast, five-tower residential complex with retail ...

The Cayuga Plaza Apartments are being sold. The new owners plan to invest more than $5 million to upgrade the downtown Cohoes senior housing complex. “And they wanted to invest in our downtown. They believed in our mission,” Cohoes Mayor Shawn Morse said. Morse made the announcement Tuesday, alongside the soon-to-be owners from Preservation Development Partners. The New York City-based group aims ...

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced $2.8 million in NYSUNY 2020 awards for Binghamton University. The awards will support the development of a state-of-the-art renewable energy research and development facility. Once completed, the new facility will be used to promote energy efficiency by testing current research efforts that focus on battery life maximization. To further advance energy conservation ...