Atlanta is hardly the first city to institute a crackdown on the devices following reports of misuse, injuries, and deaths—it's not even the first city to propose a nighttime ban in response.
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London isn't the first city to be transformed into Skopelos.
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"We're not announcing going to our first city," he said.
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The first city to require it was San Francisco in 2006.
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Its first city store will open in Manhattan later this week.
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Surabaya is the first city in Indonesia to implement this scheme.
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Bangalore is the first city the 37 trainee tailors have seen.
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We was the first city ever in California to go bankrupt.
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NYC BECOMES FIRST CITY IN THE NATION TO REGULATE APP DISPATCH COMPANIES!!!
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Anne Arbor won't be the first city to feature Navya's driverless shuttles.
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Santa Monica is the first city in California to take this step.
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And Chengdu isn't the first city that's tried to harness the sun.
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Originally settled 1,700 years ago, it's the world's first city of skyscrapers.
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In 2001, Portland became the first city to open a modern streetcar.
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Pittsburgh was Uber's first city for autonomous car testing, starting in 2016.
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In 2013, the city became the United Kingdom's first City of Culture.
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On the one hand, he saw San Francisco rising to the rank of a single, world-class metropolis encircling the entire Bay Area: Is it too much to say that this city of ours must become the first city of the continent; and is it too much to say that the first city of the continent must ultimately be the first city of the world?
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Denver was the first city to enact this kind of ordinance, in May.
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Called the Future Bus, it's the first city bus that can drive autonomously.
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The first city was Berkeley, California, which passed its soda tax in 2014.
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The first city to fall into IS hands, foreign fighters flocked to Raqqa.
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We've become the first city in the country to effectively eliminate veteran homelessness.
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New York is the first city in the country to offer such a program.
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Most recently, it became the first city in the country to directly fund abortions.
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It is not the world's first city to take on the ride-hailing giants.
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Santa Barbara isn't the first city to make such a radical move towards change.
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Falluja had been the first city to fall to Islamic State, in January 2014.
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So the first city Apple watch, you name it, comes out of these places.
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Earlier this month, San Francisco became the first city to ban the technology entirely.
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Portland, Oregon, recently became the first city to integrate Apple Pay into its Fastpass.
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In May, Kaohsiung became the first city in Taiwan to register same-sex couples.
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Los Angeles was the first city to see an inventory-free Nordstrom Local store.
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In July, Palma de Mallorca became the first city in Spain to ban Airbnb.
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Edinburgh wouldn't be the first city to block silent discos for making too much noise.
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The Baby Box Co. launched its first city-wide initiative in San Francisco in November.
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It was Pakistan's first city with a master plan, developed by a Greek architecture firm.
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Pittsburgh was the first city Uber brought its self-driving fleet to back in September.
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If the initiative then passes, Denver could become the first city to decriminalize the hallucinogen.
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Ideally, he said he wants the first city up and running by late next year.
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San Francisco recently became the first city to ban the use of face recognition surveillance.
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We just achieved 10 percent bike commuting — first city in North America to do that.
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Portland would not be the first city to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
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At first, I was looking forward to seeing the beauty of the island's first city.
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In 2004, Edinburgh was the first city to be designated a UNESCO City of Literature.
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Their theory proved correct in November 20203, the first city election under this new scheme.
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Berkeley became the first city to repurpose the holiday to honor Native Americans in 1992.
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In Southern California, San Diego is opening its first city-sanctioned homeless camp on Monday.
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In 1992, Berkeley became the first city to repurpose the holiday to honor Native Americans.
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New York City will become the first city in the country to introduce congestion pricing.
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Flint was not the first city to have a crisis involving lead in the water.
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Berkeley, California, was the first city to impose such a sugar tax, adopting it in 2015.
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Hamtramck, another Detroit suburb, is the first city in America with a majority-Muslim city council.
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Ideally, Ergen wants the first city with Dish's 5G network running by the end of 2020.
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New York will be the first city to get to play with a scheduled summer launch.
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Columbus isn't the first city in the United States to call a smart cities accelerator home.
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IN 2180, London became the first city in the world to build an underground train system.
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It's the first city in the world to have that many, surpassing even Rome and Paris.
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"It felt like I was the mayor of the first city to have fire," Littlefield said.
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Plattsburgh is the first city in the United States to ban commercial cryptocurrency mining, albeit temporarily.
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San Francisco is now the first city to have a full fleet of Bird Two scooters.
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Los Angeles wouldn't be the first city to use a state of emergency to fight homelessness.
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Philadelphia is now angling to become the first city with a legally sanctioned safe injection site.
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Last month, Denver became the first city in the U.S. to decriminalize the use of psilocybin mushrooms.
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London will not be the first city to install cellular data connections in an underground subway network.
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This makes New York the first city in America to demand its buildings dramatically cut GHG emissions.
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New York is about to become the first city in over a decade to implement congestion pricing.
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Chicago was the first city to accept the challenge of going car-free for an entire month.
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And Pittsburgh will soon become the world's first city to let any passengers hail self-driving vehicles.
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President Obama will return Wednesday to the first city he visited as president, The Hill has learned.
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If Nanjing enacted the policy, it would be the first city to restrict plate issuance since 2014.
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But just think about what happens once that first city has 5.70/23.5 readily available autonomous driving.
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Miami was the first city to call off a major music festival, and Suarez faced tremendous backlash.
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Hopefully, Seattle is just the first city of many to do what is already long past due.
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Mumbai is the first city in India — Uber's biggest market in Asia — to get the boat service.
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Mr. Adam chuckled, adding, "We could be the first City of Culture in a newly independent Scotland."
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It was the first city in America to do so, and Miller hopes it's not the last.
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To make London the first city in the world where men and women enjoy equal social status.
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"It was the first city I saw in America when I came here 24 years ago," he explained.
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That makes NYC the first city in the country to directly fund abortions -- and that's something to celebrate!
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San Francisco was the first city to impose a plastic bag ban, all the way back in 2007.
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If passed, the law would make San Francisco the first city in the nation to take such action.
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This makes San Francisco the first city to clear all eligible cannabis convictions, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Canberra became the first city in Australia to regulate ride sharing when Uber launched there in October 2015.
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Last month, San Francisco became the first city in the country to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes.
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My first city, Xi'an, lay on the coast and was surrounded by resources, each denoted with a picture.
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New York City would become the first city to require paid time off if the proposal becomes law.
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After agreeing to peace with the local tribe, Oglethorpe decided to settle the first city on a bluff.
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According to the AP, Los Angeles is the first city in the US to employ body scanning security.
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Meanwhile, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban the use of facial-recognition technology.
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Today, however, marks the official launch, as well as the addition of its first city in nearly a year.
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Last month, San Francisco became the first city to ban facial recognition technology by police and other government agencies.
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"This first city-center store was developed to meet city dwellers' expectations," Ikea Retail France CEO Walter Kadnar said.
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DENVER — A ballot initiative that would make Denver the first city to decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms looks headed for failure.
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If approved, Portland would be the first city in the state to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
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We know that we're not the first city people think of, but we're proud of our major metropolitan area.
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The novel follows Jazz Bashara, space smuggler who has grown up on Artemis, the first city on the moon.
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Minneapolis became the first city in the country to eliminate single-family zoning to tackle its affordable housing crisis.
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Minneapolis also earned some press in 2018 as the first city to make its dry cleaners go entirely PERC-free.
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At the local level, Takoma Park, Maryland became the first city to allow 16-year-olds to vote in 2013.
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According to the Sun, Cagle was the first city officer to be charged in an on-duty shooting since 2008.
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A few weeks ago, Blizzard announced the very first city-based e-sports league for the ultra-popular game Overwatch.
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"New York City is the first city in the country enact drivers' demands into legislation," it said on its website.
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And as stated by The Washington Post, Dearborn is the first city in America to elect a majority-Muslim council.
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Denver is now the first city in the nation to allow people to use marijuana in participating bars and eateries.
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Fallujah was the first city to fall to ISIS in January 2014 as it began its sweep across the country.
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Philadelphia became the first city to ban cashless stores in March and the state of New Jersey quickly followed suit.
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In August 1992, Bill Clinton and Al Gore made a campaign stop in the first city I called home, Cleveland.
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In June, New York became what abortion activists called the first city in the country to provide funding for abortions.
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Leeds is the first city in the UK to allow sex workers to do their thing without fear of arrest.
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"Johannesburg was the first city in Africa to have Uber launch and based on the success of launching in Africa as well as the characteristics of Jo'burg and where we are right now in terms of our maturity it is really about testing the product and being the first city in Africa," Kitley said.
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Seattle became the first city to allow drivers for ride-hailing companies to unionize when it passed landmark legislation last December.
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New Delhi (CNN Business)Uber has picked Melbourne as the first city outside the United States to debut its flying taxis.
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But there are pitfalls, and we know about them because Los Angeles is not the first city to experiment with microtransit.
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Falluja was the first city captured by Islamic State in Iraq, in January 2014, and a bastion of the anti-U.
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While Los Angeles will be the first city where this data standard is deployed, officials hope other cities adopt it too.
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On the part of the city of San Jose, it became the first city to pilot the program for two reasons.
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Philadelphia last month became the first city to ban cashless stores, the report notes, followed by the state of New Jersey.
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Rio is also the first city to host a second cauldron outside the stadium, with another version on Olympic Boulevard downtown.
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The team is looking to roll out its drone-riding experience soon, but it has yet to select its first city.
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Mr. Belzberg's rise in the corporate world was interrupted when he surrendered day-to-day control of First City in 1991.
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Andrew M. Cuomo that would make New York the first city in the United States with a pay-to-drive plan.
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Santa Monica is the first city to receive Jump's rental e-scooters, which look similar to the Jump e-bike's red design.
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San Francisco was the first city in the nation to crack down on smokeless tobacco at all sports venues, in May 2015.
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It was the first city in the country to do so, poking a dent in one of the companies' most profitable markets.
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In essence, Fiber is asking to take the tests with wireless transmitters that it started in Kansas City, its first city, elsewhere.
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On Tuesday, San Francisco may become the first city in America to ban the use of facial recognition by the city government.
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To the best of Hikes' knowledge, Philadelphia is the first city to publicly and symbolically recognize racial discrimination within the LGBT community.
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But earlier this year, it became the first city to comprehensively rewrite its rules on criminal background checks in public housing applications.
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Birmingham became the first city in the South to try to raise the minimum wage for anyone employed within its city limits.
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"New York City will become the first city in the nation to mandate paid personal time for all our workers," he said.
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Dubai is now the first city to have a specially designed Microsoft font — although it is technically a typeface, available in four weights.
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Chattanooga, while a distinctive name, is also not the first city that people think of when they are considering locations to migrate to.
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GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - Glasgow aims to become the first city in Britain to be carbon-neutral in a drive to tackle climate change.
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Nairobi is the first city in Africa in which Uber has piloted the low-cost, quick-trip option using small, brand-new vehicles.
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Plattsburgh, New York, has become the first city in the US to ban cryptocurrency mining in the city for the next 18 months.
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"We expect it to be the first city in the world to adopt AVs as the primary means of transport," says Mr Cameron.
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Assuming that happens, Ergen said he would like to have the first city with a Dish 5G network operational about six months later.
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U.S fitness startup ClassPass is headed to Asia after it announced plans to go live in Singapore, its first city in the continent.
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Las Vegas has become the first city in the U.S. to offer clean needles in vending machines, according to CBS News affiliate KLAS.
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San Francisco has become the first city in the United States to require that its companies provide their employees with paid parental leave.
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Whether pencil skyscrapers or squat apartment blocks, the buildings are shaped by the same invisible force: the U.S.'s first city zoning code.
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Seattle became the first city to allow ride-share drivers to unionize in 2015, though there have been legal challenges, The Guardian notes.
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I suppose it's not that surprising that this was the first city in the United States to roll out fully paid parental leave.
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Years before Google Fiber, Chattanooga was the first city in the United States to have a citywide gigabit-per-second fiber internet network.
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San Francisco just became the first city in the nation to ban the use of facial recognition technology by police and government agencies.
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Mayor Jim Kenney signed the bill last week, making Philadelphia the first city in the US to take legal action against cashless stores.
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The business that he and his brothers built began as City Savings & Trust Company in 1963 and became First City Financial in 1971.
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The first city in the United States to pass one was liberal Berkeley, after more than three dozen failed attempts around the country.
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In 2005, Seattle became the first city in the United States to start a citywide initiative to eliminate racial inequities and structural racism.
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By 2175, drought, population growth and climate change nearly made Cape Town the first city in the world to run out of water.
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Just this week, Berkeley just became the first city to ban natural gas in new homes, hoping to move toward an electric-powered city.
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Her first city home was a modest apartment in Brooklyn, and over the years, she also lived on Central Park West and Riverside Drive.
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Santa Monica, where one of the UCLA hospitals is located, is the headquarters of Bird and the first city where e-scooters rolled out.
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This nonprofit based in Kansas City formed in 2011, after Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city to receive Google Fiber.
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In San Diego, their first city, Industry now has about 20 percent of the entire hospitality market (which totals ~6,000 restaurants) on its platform.
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Homs was one of the earliest centers of the rebellion against Assad, and the first city where it was put down with overwhelming force.
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Seattle became the first city in the country last year to pass a law granting Uber and Lyft drivers the right to collectively bargain.
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If Philadelphia opens the sites, it could be the first city in the country to have officially-sanctioned safe-injection sites, the Inquirer reported.
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New Delhi (CNN Business)A helicopter app for the wealthy has picked India's financial capital Mumbai as its first city outside the United States.
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In February, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to offer free college to all residents regardless of wealth or education level.
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Seattle was the first city to approve a law allowing Uber and app drivers to unionize, but the measure has faced a legal challenge.
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Berkeley, California is credited with being the first city in the U.S. to adopt the holiday that same year, according to the Daily Californian.
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Global interest intensified in 2010 after Chengdu became China's first City of Gastronomy on a list compiled by UNESCO to honor unique food heritage.
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The move towards autonomous cars stepped up a gear when Shanghai became the first city in China to allow test vehicles to carry passengers.
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She was able to do that for the First City edition, and the Print Hub went to work rewriting every headline on the page.
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She joined the school board and the local League of Women Voters, attended her first City Council meeting and worked to oust the mayor.
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If the world's tallest building, indoor skiing, and underwater hotels weren't enough, Dubai now wants to become the first city to have flying taxis.
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He's only this high because he's responsible for the Louisiana Purchase, so without him we wouldn't have New Orleans, the First City of Jazz ™.
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In May, Cincinnati became the first city in Ohio to ban bump stocks, attachments that make a sem-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.
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In Minneapolis, the first city in the country to protect trans people from discrimination in public spaces, rent has skyrocketed in the last two decades.
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New York City recently became the first city in the US to agree to implement a congestion pricing fix for its traffic and pollution problems.
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Lagos was the first city in the region to get piped water, in the 1800s, and for a long time, clean water was abundantly available.
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The Los Angeles Police Department was the first city police agency to register its name, badge, and motto with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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It was the first city taken over by ISIS in January 2014, the extremists capitalizing on deep grievances against the Shia dominated government in Baghdad.
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Nashville became the first city in the south to recognize LGBT-owned business contributions to the city by an executive order of the mayor's office.
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Deraa, known as "the cradle of the uprising," was the first city in Syria to revolt against President Bashar al-Assad on March 15, 2011.
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New York is set to become the first city in the country with a major municipal program geared toward helping female filmmakers and theater-makers.
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In a sweeping new ban, Beverly Hills has become the first city in the United States to end most tobacco sales, The Associated Press reported.
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San Francisco earlier this year became the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by local law enforcement and other city agencies.
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Seattle was the first city to approve a law allowing ride hailing drivers to unionize, though it is currently being challenged in court, per Reuters.
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Two years ago, Unesco cited Tucson as the nation's first City of Gastronomy, highlighting its mix of Native American, colonial Spanish and border Mexican influences.
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In a bid to revive consumption, Foshan announced stimulus measures for its auto market, the first city in China to do so amid the outbreak.
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Supermarkets of suburban proportions, like Whole Foods, are making their mark on the city; Wegmans will open its first city store, in Brooklyn, in 2018.
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The first city being built you start transforming the surrounding environment, researching technologies and expanding until, by the end, you achieve hegemony over the world.
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The fastest city is apparently Kansas City, Missouri (average download speed 159.19 Mbps, average upload speed 127.03), which was the first city to get Google Fiber.
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New York City isn't the first city to allow people to use contactless, NFC-based payment apps like Apple Pay and Google Pay to ride transit.
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It has a tower like a minaret, and a gate labelled "Jerico" in honour of the first city to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
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For example, Central Falls, Rhode Island, which is Rhode Island's only majority-Hispanic community, was the first city in Rhode Island to declare Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
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It will also be the first city outside the United States to have a coffee roastery and tasting room, set to open in December this year.
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Baltimore's move would make it the first city in the country to amend its charter in order to keep its water and sewer systems publicly owned.
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San Francisco last year became the first city to approve an outright sales ban, and other communities in the Bay Area have since pursued similar policies.
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If the measure is approved, San Francisco would be the first city in the country to guarantee mental illness and addiction are covered for every resident.
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Philadelphia was the first city in the U.S. in this recent wave to propose a ban, though last June, the city delayed the ban until October.
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New York — home to some 80,000 Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via drivers — is the first city to put these kinds of regulations on Uber and Lyft.
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In May, San Francisco banned police and local government departments from using facial recognition technology — becoming the first city in the United States to do so.
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Baltimore will become the first city in the U.S. to pilot aerial surveillance, funded by philanthropists, to understand its impact on crime, per the Baltimore Sun.
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Apple Pay's Express Mode feature has been available in the U.S. since April 2019, with Portland's TriMet the first city in the country to accept it.
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Boston was the first city to officially team up with the American Association of University Women, which now also offers Work Smart training in Tempe, Ariz.
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Thirty years later, after failing to find evidence of his father in his homeland of Libya, Siena becomes Matar's reference point and center, his first city.
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The first City of Women map was published in the 2016 book "Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas," by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.
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Turnout among 16-17 year olds in the first city election after they were extended the franchise was nearly double turnout for voters 18 and up.
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Los Angeles was the first city that Amazon expanded its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service to after incubating it for more than five years in Seattle.
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In the campaign she made a point of saying hers was the first city office to re-open after Katrina, providing critical property records to the displaced.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Monday about the corporate raider Samuel Belzberg misstated the name of a brother with whom Mr. Belzberg founded First City Financial in 1963.
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Backers of the initiative said it would make Denver the first city in the country where cannabis enthusiasts can enjoy the drug socially without fear of arrest.
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West Hollywood became the first city in the nation to implement a fur ban in 2013; several other California cities have since followed suit, the outlet noted.
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Karely Ordaz Salto, the chairwoman of the city's Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Task Force, says Oakland is the first city to target johns in this way.
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Los Angeles will be implementing body scanning technology to its mass transit systems, the New York Times reported this week, becoming the first city to do so.
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Falluja is a bastion of Sunni Muslim jihadists 50 km (30 miles) from Baghdad that was the first city to fall to Islamic State in January 2014.
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Weir's second novel, ARTEMIS (Crown, $27), takes place in the first city built on the moon, an industrial and tourist haven that gives the book its title.
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Tucson, recipient of the country's first City of Gastronomy designation in 2015, used it to train attention on its agricultural history, seed banks and locally owned restaurants.
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The current top prosecutor, George Gascón, has taken steps to divert young adults from prison, and San Francisco was the first city to clear old marijuana convictions.
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The first city to be locked down was Wuhan, but the woman in question seemed to have left before it was put in place, the BBC said.
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She served her apprenticeship in San Francisco, which in 2007 became the first city in America to place a ban on plastic grocery and retail-store bags.
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It also showed drastic declines in pollutants around Wuhan, which has appeared to be the source of the outbreak and was the first city to be quarantined.
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St. Petersburg, Florida, was one of the most recent cities to jump into that initiative, becoming the first city in Florida to make a commitment to renewable energy.
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More than a decade earlier, in 1909, LA became the first city in the United States to create residential zones—areas where commercial and industrial sites were forbidden.
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Like competitor Jinn, which recently launched in Madrid (its first city outside the U.K.), it's via direct partnerships with merchants where the real money is to be made.
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The laws most often apply to retail and restaurant employers with at least several hundred employees — though Chicago was the first city to also include health care workers.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty)San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in America to ban the use of facial recognition technology by police and other government agencies.
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Hong Kong has the largest population of ultra-wealthy residents, becoming the first city to have more than 10,000 ultra wealthy individuals after overtaking New York last year.
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Within a decade, Wu Hu, about 200 miles west of Shanghai, aims to become the first city in the world to ban human drivers and go fully autonomous.
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Consider some wins: In May 2015, Chicago became the first city in the country to award reparations to people who survived police torture during the 1970s and '80s.
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Last year Santa Monica, which has identified more than 70 steel-frame buildings believed to have the problem, became the first city in California to order mandatory retrofits.
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In today's 360 video, visit Masdar City, in the United Arab Emirates, where plans to become the first city with a net-zero carbon footprint have hit roadblocks.
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They also explain why New York City was proud to be the first city in the country to divest from private prison companies in its pension fund investments.
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California has been working to launch a pilot program of the fancy new tags for years, and Sacramento has agreed to be the first city to test them out.
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Venice, Italy might not be the first city that comes to mind when you think of European cool, but this seaside city is more than just a pretty postcard.
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Mr. Bowie and Iman purchased their first city home in 1992, a ninth-floor apartment at the Essex House Hotel on Central Park South, which they sold in 2002.
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In 2015, Google was expected to get permission to do a trial run of Street View in Hyderabad, making it the first city to be entirely mapped in India.
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The first city officer to go on trial was William Porter, the cop who checked on Gray while he was caged in a police van on April 12, 2015.
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Decibel, the West Coast festival which was one of the country's first city-based, multi-venue music events, will return early next year after going on hiatus in 2016.
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Related: Seattle Just Became the First City in the US to Allow Uber Drivers to Unionize Out of the $100 million proposed payment, $84 million is guaranteed to drivers.
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New York was not the first city to establish a municipal ID, and other cities have grappled with how to handle data collected on marginalized communities by these programs.
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The Berkeley city council passed a resolution last week to institute what it calls "Green Mondays," becoming the first city in the nation to do so, according to ABC7.
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San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the U.S. to ban the sale of e-cigarettes until they get approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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In 2010, the city turned on the fiber network and officially became the first city in the United States to offer gigabit internet speeds to all of its residents.
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Even though, as City of Quartz describes, Los Angeles' freeway system made it the first city of bank robbery, there just aren't enough banks to make a stable living.
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In doing so, he will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the first city in the world to experience the use of a nuclear weapon during war.
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The Abe government also hopes Obama's visit on Friday to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer an atomic bombing, will showcase the strong alliance between the former wartime foes.
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Cuomo specifically pointed to the effectiveness of social distancing efforts in Westchester County, home to New Rochelle, the NYC suburb that was the first city to experience an outbreak.
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New York City recently became the first city in the US to authorize a congestion pricing scheme that applies to all vehicles driving in the busiest parts of Manhattan.
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Philadelphia "was proud to become the first city" to adopt the rule, said Mayor Kenney, whose administration has just submitted an extensive plan to put the rule into effect.
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The small municipality of West Hollywood, which lies adjacent to Los Angeles, made headlines in November 2011 as the first city in America to ban the sale of fur clothing.
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In red Arizona, voters in the City of Flagstaff also approved a $15 minimum wage, making it the first city outside of the coasts to join the Fight for $15.
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Richmond, a former capital city of the Confederacy, is not the first city that chose to replace a confederate inspired school name with that of the first African-American president.
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The announcement means New York is set to become the first city in the country with a major municipal program geared toward promoting gender equality in film, theater and television.
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In January, East Orange was the first city in the state to increase the municipal minimum wage up to $15 an hour across the board through the collective bargaining process.
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In March, San Francisco became the first city to pass a law that would forbid the city's employees from traveling to states with anti-LGBT laws on the city's dime.
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San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to sue the company over the data breach that eventually saw Equifax CEO and Chairman, Richard Smith, abruptly retire on Tuesday.
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Residents of Charlottesville, Virginia, railed against city officials Monday night at the first city council meeting since August 12, the day of the violent white supremacist rally that turned deadly.
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There is no hot mobility topic — from autonomy to VC investing trends, from micro-mobility to mobility-first city design, to safety and security — that the agenda does not touch.
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On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first city in the US to require businesses to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for parents to bond with a new baby.
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In 2013, Takoma Park — a small, progressive enclave in a suburb of Washington, DC — became the first city in the US to lower its local election voting age to 16.
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New York was the first city in the country to roll out red-light cameras in 1993, but they are a relatively modest presence on streets, operating at 150 intersections.
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The outcry began almost immediately after Mr. Cuomo and state lawmakers reached a deal last weekend to make New York the first city in the country to enact congestion pricing.
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The agency's bridges and tunnel division will oversee the rollout of the Manhattan toll plan in 2021, making New York the first city in the country to impose congestion pricing.
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It's not the first city to do so, but it is unique in that it chooses human avatars for each of its boroughs that encapsulate the feeling of each area.
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San Francisco became the first city to sue the administration over the executive order in January, arguing that the order's provision for cutting off funding to sanctuary jurisdictions was unconstitutional.
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In May last year, San Francisco became the first city in the world to ban facial recognition technology after passing a law banning government agencies from buying and using it.
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Although it wasn't the first city to create such a cohesive operation, Zhengzhou provided a convenient system, since it would serve what would become the world's largest iPhone manufacturing facility.
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We were the first city in California to establish a local green building ordinance in 85033, which requires rooftops to be solar ready and promotes innovative energy-efficient building design.
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The six-year-old startup added its first city outside North America on Wednesday, launching in Melbourne and announcing plans to grow its business in Australia over the next year.
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The local banks which participated in 9Mobile's loan deal are: Zenith Bank GTBank, First Bank, UBA, Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, Ecobank, First City Monument Bank, Stanbic IBTC Bank and Union Bank.
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This year, San Francisco became the first city to require fully paid parental leave, and New York joined California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island in requiring paid time off state-wide.
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Sacramento makes sense as a first city for Verizon, though, given that it was one of the 11 cities that the company had started initial 5G test on earlier this year.
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Now, in an effort to further crack down on disease transmission via shared needles, Las Vegas has become the first city in the U.S. to install a clean needle vending machine.
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In August 2017, New York became the first city in the country to guarantee the right of low-income tenants to have legal counsel in court, if they wanted legal counsel.
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San Francisco was the first city to ban city government use of facial recognition in what's now considered by civil liberty advocates to be the gold standard for regulating the technology.
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Massachusetts became the first state of many to make smallpox vaccination compulsory in the early 6413s, and in 2641 Boston became the first city to require the vaccine for school children.
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New York City will become the first city in the country with congestion pricing, securing crucial funding for the subways in a long-delayed victory for mass transit over the automobile.
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The First City headline: REPORTS OF ABUSE / SPUR RESIGNATION / OF SCHNEIDERMAN / Four Women Say Attorney General / of New York Assaulted Them Dean's team continued to report and update between print editions.
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It would have been the first city in America to enforce such a ban, but it was struck down by the New York Supreme Court, and again on appeal in 2014.
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His isn't the first city to take this approach; Baltimore, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Sacramento and many other towns have launched similar programs in an effort to reduce obesity and halt climate change.
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Mr. LaPadula, a local auto body shop owner who specializes in customizing luxury cars, invited them to use the dilapidated house as their canvas for an exhibition called First City Project.
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Call it the beginning of the city of the future — the City of Bridges that may soon be the first city on the planet where drivers are a thing of the past.
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Over 100 of the high-tech tags are already in use as part of a pilot program, and now Sacramento has become the first city to add them to its municipal fleet.
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In 25, it was the first city designated by the Chinese government as a special economic zone, which permitted it to run under different business regulations than the rest of the country.
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As catering to those people who don't have credit cards or bank accounts has become a bigger topic for debate, Philadelphia was the first city to ban cashless stores earlier this year.
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With Dubai making efforts to be the first city fully on blockchain and programs like Dubai Future Accelerators and Accenture's FinTech Hive grabbing attention, the city's tech sector is reaching new heights.
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Question Adelaide's sophistication, and they'll argue that because this is the first city in Australia to be founded by free settlers rather than convicts, the culture is more open-minded and creative.
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In June, the northwest Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr became the first city in the wider region to adopt a target of using 21 percent renewable energy by 2000, according to its mayor.
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The G7 foreign ministers' trip to the museum and memorial is part of Japan's effort to send a strong nuclear disarmament message from Hiroshima, the world's first city to suffer atomic bombing.
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District Attorney George Gascón said San Francisco is the first city in the country to clear eligible pot convictions, and he will soon present the cases to a judge for final approval.
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PITTSBURGH — Any day now, Uber will introduce a fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, making this former steel town the world's first city to let any passenger hail an autonomous vehicle.
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"London was the first city to experience suburbanization, and one of the first cities to change because of the impacts of the Industrial Revolution," says Jean-Vincent Roy, Ubisoft Quebec's resident historian.
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St. Petersburg, Florida has committed to switching its power sources over to 100 percent renewable energy—the first city in the Sunshine State to pledge to do away with fossil fuels entirely.
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Hamtramck recently became the first city in the US to achieve a Muslim-majority city council, and call to prayer can be heard throughout the roughly two-square-mile city within Detroit.
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On Tuesday, San Francisco joined their ranks, and even went a step further, becoming the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the police and other city agencies.
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It plans to introduce electric bikes in Berlin, the first city outside the United States where the Uber bikes will be available, and to eventually debut its food-delivery service in Germany.
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San Francisco is the first city in the United States to require employers to offer six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents, a law that came into effect this month.
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The result is that this southern port in a conservative, pro-business state — home to the first city to outsource its entire municipal government — has a competitive advantage that other ports lack.
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The truth is lead poisoning is still too common among poor American children, and that Flint is far from the first city where lead in the water supply has affected public health.
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L.A. is the first city to take this approach to its streets, and if the cool pavement program is expanded along with other measures, it could do enough to reach the city's target.
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The City of Vancouver became the first city in Canada to license and regulate them this year, while federal police in other cities in BC have been raiding and shutting down local dispensaries.
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Most of those are in China, but it has expanded to Singapore and it just announced plans to launch in Manchester, UK, its first city in Europe, by the end of this month.
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San Francisco — threatened by the twin perils of an affordable housing crisis and an overdue earthquake — was the first city in the world to appoint a resiliency officer, also just two years ago.
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Washington, D.C. is the first city to transition to all digital meters, so it will be interesting to see if the convenience makes a dent in the rise of ride hailing-services there.
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Part of the clean-up also reflects an asset shift rather than a real solution: Wenzhou is the first city in China to create its own "bad bank" to take over failed loans.
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Last month, San Francisco became the first city to ban its city government agencies from using facial recognition technology at all, and similar proposals are being weighed in other cities, including Somerville, Mass.
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Tesla announced earlier this year that it is doubling the global number of Superchargers in 2017, and recently opened its first "city center" supercharger stations in the downtown areas of Chicago and Boston.
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"Magic" mushroom vote: Denver, which has been at the forefront of the debate over legalizing marijuana, will decide today whether to be the first city in the nation to effectively decriminalize hallucinogenic mushrooms.
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Ann Arbor became the first city of any size to lose its only daily newspaper when The Ann Arbor News ceased daily print publication after 174 years and many rounds of staff cuts.
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Monterey Park, the first city in San Gabriel Valley, California, to become a suburban destination for wealthy Chinese, was considered a particularly propitious place to live because it had an 818 area code.
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We're the first city in the Bay Area, the delta where all that stuff is, to go see London, to go to New York City, to travel the world and do different things.
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The Swedish furniture and home goods retailer, known for its massive stores spanning more than 300,000 square feet, will open its first "city center" location ever, in New York's Upper East Side, on Monday.
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Earlier this year, San Fransisco became the first city in the US to ban government agencies from using face matching software, and Microsoft has denied software to law enforcement agencies, citing human rights concerns.
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On Tuesday, San Francisco became the first city in the country to approve six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents, which covers mothers, fathers and same-sex couples. Fully. Paid. Leave. Wow.
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Los Angeles, which in 1979 became the first city to specifically bar officers from stopping people to ask about their immigration status, could lose as much as $500 million of its $9 billion budget.
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Flint was the first city in the country to hold a popular vote in favor of an open housing referendum in 22016, but an exodus of wealthy white residents to the suburbs soon followed.
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Baidu was also the first to nab a batch of L3 licenses to trial self-driving cars in Beijing, where Baidu is headquartered and is the country's first city to allow such road tests.
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban e-cigarettes on Tuesday, a move that seeks to curb what experts have described as a nicotine epidemic among teenagers.
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E-cigarettes: San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban Juul and other such devices, in an effort to curb what experts have described as a nicotine epidemic among teenagers.
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New York is poised to become the first city in the U.S. to introduce congestion pricing, part of a state budget lawmakers will vote on today after reaching a late-night agreement with Gov.
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Columbia, South Carolina, could become the first city in the United States to pass a law banning the sale of bump stocks, devices that effectively turn semi-automatic rifles into rapid-fire machine guns.
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Once the first city is founded, each civilization starts out on its own path, whether that means arming up to pursue early conquests and fend off barbarians or focusing on cultural and scientific development first.
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It was one of the first city-centre venues to be hit in the deadly November 13, 2015, Paris attacks which claimed the lives of 130 people in a string of shootings across the city.
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Uber is currently in the midst of a major recruitment drive that will see Singapore, the first city it expanded to in Asia, remain its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region despite its local exit.
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The American College of Physicians is not the first health organization to recognize hate crimes as a public health concern -- and Charlottesville certainly is not the first city to see hateful rhetoric sweep its streets.
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While San Francisco was the first city in the nation to declare a shelter-in-place order requiring citizens to stay home, it wasn't yet in place in late February when the conference took place.
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While deploring such insults, Ms. Colau said that she was proud to have given Barcelona its first City Hall administration with an openly feminist agenda, committed to fighting not only sexism but also domestic violence.
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Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first city to lower the voting age, thanks mostly to the advocacy efforts of youth themselves who convinced the city council that they should have a voice in local governance.
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If it carries out these recommendations, Ms. Jones believes that San Francisco would be the first city in the United States to enact broader regulations that demand that a city be functional after an earthquake.
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Stadt Huys at today's 85 Broad Street served as New York's first city hall, and was in 1979 the city's first major archaeological project, led by Nan A. Rothschild, for whom the repository is named.
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The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority just announced its plans to become the first city to use portable body scanners in its subway and light-rail systems to help detect the presence of explosive devices.
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Read More: This Is the First City in Florida to Commit to 100 Percent Renewable Energy Utility companies have been heavy players in the political game in Florida, contributing more than $1 million to Republican Gov.
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The first city that will pilot the new system starting this summer is San Jose, California, and the plan is to roll it out to more cities during the rest of the year, and eventually globally.
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Some progressives, including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, have called for a ban on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement, and in May, San Francisco became the first city to enact such a ban.
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Along Liberty Avenue, on posters in the windows of sari shops and roti restaurants, Mr. David advertises his campaign for City Council, which, if successful, would make him New York's first city councilman of Guyanese descent.
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She crafts her own noodles and sauces entirely from scratch, drawing from her childhood and connection to Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province of China and certified by UNESCO as Asia's first city of gastronomy.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York has said it will become the first city to report its progress towards U.N. global development goals, underscoring the growing importance of urban centers in combating poverty, inequality and climate change.
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Though Berkeley is the first city to implement Green Mondays, a number of cities, towns and business nationwide have taken steps to reduce their carbon footprint by introducing bans on some plastic products, like single-use straws.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Norway's capital Oslo will become the first city in the world to install wireless charging systems for electric taxis, hoping to make recharging quick and efficient enough to speed the takeup of non-polluting cabs.
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A groundbreaking campaign to make Washington, DC, the first city in the US to decriminalize sex work is foundering amid clashes between local activists and a national organization whose political director has been accused of sexual misconduct.
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New York (CNN Business)One year ago, New York became the first city in the United States to temporarily cap the number of ride-sharing vehicles in order to study the impact of the ride-sharing industry.
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San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the police and other city agencies back in May, blocking a tool that has been broadly criticized for misidentifying people of color.
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In 2003 and 2005, only the vagaries of the Champions League draw — they met in the semifinal and then the quarterfinal rounds — prevented Milan from becoming the first city to send two representatives to the competition's final.
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San Francisco also became the first city in the country to back fully paid leave for employees, giving city residents more leave than under the state law, which offers six weeks with 55% of the worker's salary covered.
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San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the country to ban e-cigarettes after city officials approved an ordinance that prohibits selling nicotine pods or devices that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Seven-figure salaries, sold-out stadiums: In South Korea, pro video gaming is a lucrative sport How other cities tackle the problem Seoul isn't the first city to try to address to get distracted walkers to look up.
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Seattle is the first city to adopt its own rules requiring internet service providers to get consent from their broadband customers before sharing or selling their personal data, including web-browsing history, according to Seattle's Capitol Hill Times.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday his visit to Hiroshima, the first city to suffer an atomic bombing, would emphasize friendly ties between former enemies, and reiterated he would not apologize for the devastating attack.
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"Oslo is set to be the world's first city with a zero emissions transportation solution," according to the CEBR report that gauges both existing policies and plans to promote greener transport with everything from electric cars to bicycles.
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While Michigan will be the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes, San Francisco became the first city to do so in June, after legislators voted to stop the sale and distribution of all types of e-cigarettes.
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London (CNN Business)London is the first city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission Zone, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards or face a charge.
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Officials said they hope Pfizer's agreement will set the bar for manufacture of narcotics and could help combat the rise in narcotic painkiller misuse in the U.S. Chicago was the first city to file suit against leading opioid manufacturers.
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Maricá, a city of about 157,000 located a little over an hour by car from Rio de Janeiro currently governed by a mayor from the left-leaning Workers' Party, is hardly the first city to try something like this.
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Lavasa - the first city in India's $7.5 billion plan to turn 100 urban centers into Smart Cities by 2020 - has suffered from design issues, and ignored the needs of poor and marginalized groups, planners and rights groups have said.
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Lavasa - the first city in India's $7.5 billion plan to turn 100 urban centers into Smart Cities by 2020 - has suffered from design issues, and ignored the needs of poor and marginalized groups, planners and rights groups have said.
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the United States to approve six weeks of fully paid leave for new parents — mothers and fathers, including same-sex couples, who either bear or adopt a child.
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THE TOPLINE: The fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) notched a win over the weekend with the full liberation of Fallujah, the first city the terrorist group captured when it rose to prominence in 2014.
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New York is poised to become the first city in the United States to introduce congestion pricing, putting new electronic tolls in place for drivers entering the busiest stretches of Manhattan, The Times's Jesse McKinley and Winnie Hu reported.
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On Thursday, Hamburg became the first city in Germany to put in place any kind of ban on diesel vehicles, after a federal court ruled in February that it was legal for local authorities to prohibit older diesel engines.
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After a unanimous vote by the city council (49-0), the city will soon provide free tampons and pads in all public schools, jails, and homeless shelters, making it the first city in the United States to do so.
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"It's a huge warning signal as Cape Town is a well resourced city... Yet they're still now going to be first city in the world that runs out of water completely, just because of the severity of climate impacts," said Watts.
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Hoboken was the first city in New Jersey to allow riders to rent motorized, two-wheeled scooters, joining a long list of cities that have embraced them in the past few years, including San Francisco, Chicago, Paris, Barcelona and Sydney, Australia.
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The discount retailer said Chicago will be the first city in the U.S. to have all four of its new delivery and pickup options — Shipt, Drive Up, Target Restock and the fulfillment of online orders from within stores — starting this week.
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San Francisco became the first city to ban the use of facial recognition software by police in May, and the New York City Council is currently weighing a bill to force the NYPD to publicly disclose their tactics involving surveillance technology.
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Birthplace of the jazz soloist Charlie Parker Jr., Kansas City, Mo., earned the nation's first City of Music title, based on its history of jazz, especially bebop and swing, and the influence those styles had on musicians at home and abroad.
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Toronto was the first city in North America to pass a green roof law, in 222, requiring new buildings or additions that are greater than 212,2525 square feet to cover between 252 and 22006 percent of their buildings with vegetation.
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As president of the conservative think tank Indiana Policy Review Foundation, Pence opposed a vote by the city council of Lafayette, Indiana, to make itself the first city in the state to add sexual orientation to its anti-discrimination law.
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Last week, Las Vegas became the first city in the United States to allow this kind of syringe dispensing machine, in an effort to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C among heroin users and other injection drug users (IDUs).
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New York wants to be the first city in the country to have a well designed and well managed congestion pricing system, but the new proposed plan—which would target not just taxi drivers, but everyone—has garnered both support and fierce opposition.
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It's the first city in Australia to have real-time public transport schedules added into Google Maps, following the lead of transit apps such as TripView, TripGo and Arrivo, which have had live data fed from the state's transport department since 2013.
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That said, you may have missed this all-important measure, buried in the morass of news of late: Denver voters passed Proposition 300, which made it the first city in the land to allow people to use marijuana in bars and restaurants.
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"When you place that first city, after you've played a few times, your mind really starts going and the gears start turning, when you're looking at the area around your city and deciding what kind of city it's going to be," he says.
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In the run-up to the Olympic Games in 2024, the mayor has ambitious plans to pull the City of Lights into the modern era: relandscaping the gardens around the Eiffel Tower and constructing the first city-center skyscraper since the 1970s.
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This put Aarhus on track to become the first city in the world to provide and pump fresh water to all its citizens from energy created solely from household wastewater and sewage, escalating interest in how to make wastewater into a resource.
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Or she could gamble by waiting to take the first city bus of the morning, which sometimes arrived late and sometimes broke down and sometimes took more than an hour as it hit dozens of traffic lights on the way across town.
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In September, Austin, Texas, moved to set aside $150,000 in its 2020 budget for abortion support resources and in June, New York moved to become what abortion activists said would be the first city in the country to provide funding for abortions.
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"In light of threats by Attorney General Sessions regarding a misguided crackdown on our democratic decision to legalize recreational cannabis, we have become what may be the first city in the country to declare ourselves a sanctuary city for cannabis," Arreguin tweeted Tuesday.
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MARIETTA, OH – While the path of who wins Ohio in November might not come through the small community of Marietta, the first city in the Buckeye State; it is highly likely that this one time Democratic stronghold is going Republican this November.
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Seattle was the first city in the United States to raise the minimum wage substantially, so a University of Washington study released last month showing big job losses has received a lot of attention, and prompted many an I-told-you-so.
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Tech-savvy San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city to ban the use of facial recognition technology by local law enforcement and other city agencies, signaling an intensifying backlash to the increasingly popular technology that is being implemented across the country with little regulation.
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"Dallas became the first city in Texas where the Uber app was available in 2012, and since then Texas has been a hub of innovation for our platform," Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a press release earlier this month distributed by Texas Gov.
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Pay Puzzle Seattle was the first city in the United States to raise the minimum wage substantially, so a University of Washington study released last month showing big job losses has received a lot of attention, and prompted many an I-told-you-so.
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If signed into law, the new legislation would amend the city's health code, making it illegal for stores to sell vaping products or for online retailers to ship them to San Francisco addresses, which means it would become the first city to enact such a ban.
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"TIM wants to be the pioneer and lead 5G in both Brazil and Italy," Pietro Labriola, chief executive officer of TIM Participacoes said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that Florianopolis is the first city in Brazil to have a 5G antenna in the 3.5 GHz frequency.
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In light of soaring student debt, California lawmakers introduced a number of bills last year aimed at making college more affordable, and last year, San Francisco became the first city in the U.S. to offer free community college tuition for all local residents regardless of need.
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It's also eyeing international expansion — with Dublin set to be its first city launch outside the UK. A U.S. launch is on the cards too, slated for the end of this year or early next, though Hutcheon talks excitedly about Dice's potential in various European cities too.
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Majorca is one of Spain's main tourism destinations, to the point that this year Palma became the first city in Spain to introduce a ban on short-term apartment rentals through Airbnb and other home-sharing websites to help free up more accommodation for local residents.
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After the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report on Amazon's sale of its Rekognition software to police departments, San Francisco became the first city in the world to ban local agencies from using the technology, in a blueprint that activists hope will be replicated elsewhere.
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More than a week after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., officials from the town held their first City Council meeting — an event that was soon taken over by protesters targeting officials for their response to the violent event, according to The Daily Progress.
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Dujarric said the United Nations was working with local humanitarian partners to assess the needs and pattern of movement of civilians still in Falluja, a bastion of Sunni Muslim jihadists 50 km (30 miles) from Baghdad that was the first city to fall to Islamic State in January 2014.
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McConnell will speak at GOP gathering Cleveland will be the first city to host a national political convention while under federal oversight, a state of affairs precipitated by a series of high-profile, deadly shootings of young black men and women -- most notably, 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
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Photo: Steffi Loos (Getty)In the same week that San Francisco voted to become the first city in the United States to ban government use of face recognition surveillance, two New York State legislators introduced a bill to ban the use of facial recognition surveillance by residential landlords.
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Ballarat is the first city in Australia to join the Council of Europe's Intercultural Cities Network, a statement of intent to become a more culturally diverse and welcoming community, as also seen in Ballarat's acceptance of a growing number of new immigrants from countries including Sudan and Afghanistan.
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It is both North America's largest market for these companies and also the first city in America to effectively regulate them, with a cap starting next year on the number of new licenses that can be doled out to drivers, and other mechanisms to control where they can operate.
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The program, which the City Council is expected to approve this week, would make New York the first city in the country to use traffic camera violations to try to change the behavior of reckless drivers through education and the threat of impoundment, instead of relying on fines.
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And we took in a very old analogue way of actually having sanitation department in our city drive every block of every street of every neighborhood and rank how clean it was based on visual evidence that people can actually access, the first city in the country to do this.
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New York was the first city to require panic buttons on a broad scale when the provision was included in a contract struck in 2012, the year after a hotel housekeeper accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund and a French politician, of sexually assaulting her.
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Chicago's the first city to actually make it a graduation requirement for every student, which means whether you care about black girls learning to code, or white girls learning to code, or Hispanic boys learning, every single student graduating in Chicago's public school system — RS: So Chicago is probably a bad example.
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In the face of this epidemic, Cambridge could become the first city to take a step that until recently might have seemed unthinkable: It might place lockboxes on street corners to give the public easy access to Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, a medication that can rapidly revive people who have overdosed.
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Starting out by selling used cars in Alberta in the 21963s, he went on to join his brothers, Hyman and William, in 1963 in founding what became First City Financial, a financial services giant and holding company, originally based in Vancouver, that would be used by the family for its high-profile corporate takeovers.
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San Francisco was the first city I would do it in because in a small town, which is seven miles by seven miles, you have the most amazing minds that have changed the shape of the world, but you also have the poorest people living in the street, and you have this crazy disparity in one city.
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As a consequence, the Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) of First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FBN), FBN Holdings Plc (FBNH), Diamond Bank Plc, Fidelity Bank Plc, First City Monument Bank Limited (FCMB), and Union Bank of Nigeria Plc are downgraded to 'B-' from 'B', in line with their stand-alone creditworthiness as defined by their Viability Ratings (VR).
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In 1990, San Luis Obispo, nestled in the central part of the state, became the first city in the world to ban all indoor smoking in public places, including bars and restaurants; California was the first state to ban smoking in the workplace in 1995 and, in June, Beverly Hills became the first U.S. city to ban tobacco sales.
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Mr. Tusk's pride in Uber's humiliation of Mayor Bill de Blasio — whose motivations he does not characterize as corrupt only because it "would be an insult to the corrupt" — is no longer justified given that New York became the first city in the nation last month to impose a cap on new licenses for ride-sharing services.
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When I served as the jury president for the prize for war reporting given in Bayeux, the first city to be liberated during the Battle of Normandy, the mayor showed me the expanse of American graves at the nearby military cemetery as a way of demonstrating what America meant to him, his family and his people.
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What's happening: AP reported early Tuesday that more than 300,000 tourists had collected in La Serena, Chile, to catch a glimpse of the eclipse — the first city in South America to experience totality, at 4:38pm ET. The path of the eclipse will trace a 90-mile-wide stretch of land, from La Serena to Chascomús, Argentina, south of Buenos Aires.
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Though Sony asked Justin a series of personal questions to re-establish identity—the primary email address on the account, serial number of his first console, first city he logged in from—they also asked for details, like recent purchases, that could be found by punching in the account into any number of websites and seeing what trophies had recently unlocked.
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While Indianapolis isn't the first city that comes to mind when thinking about major tech hubs, the 2013 sale of local software startup ExactTarget to Salesforce for $2.5 billion dollars helped to set the city on a trajectory of a well-resourced startup and investment culture—a boon Jones says has struggled to onboard women, people of color, and LGBTQ talent into its pipeline.
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"In a school community where we welcome learners and families from over 50 languages who represent cultures and religions throughout the world, and where our long-standing neighborhood, Sunnyhills, was established as the first city in the nation for planned integration, it hurts to know that this type of cultural insensitivity and lack of cultural awareness still hovers in the background," reads the statement.
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