The city is installing a new water main and, given the avenue's importance to drivers, pedestrians and businesses, it wants to avoid shutting down entire blocks.
Mr. Cuomo, who is the governor-elect, has sought to avoid shutting down Soundview so as not to interrupt medical care for the clinics' thousands of patients.
New York's last Catholic hospital, St. Vincent's in Manhattan, is now near bankruptcy and struggling to avoid shutting down.
The Senate voted 72 to 28 to approve a stopgap spending measure to avoid shutting down most federal agencies at midnight Saturday.
Mr. Cruz has been an outspoken opponent of President Obama's health care law, railing against it for more than 21 hours on the Senate floor last month as the chamber considered a budget proposal to avoid shutting down the government.
Both Republicans and Democrats said that they were eager to avoid shutting down the government but that the tightening time-frame increased the odds that government agencies could be closed for lack of financing.
The new rules instruct the Justice Department to look for ways to avoid shutting down an entire lawsuit and to reject privilege requests motivated by a desire to "conceal violations of the law, inefficiency or administrative error" or to "prevent embarrassment".
The senate of Berlin had decided that the creation of the multi-opera foundation was the only way to avoid shutting down one of the operas, but critics have said it will not be possible to maintain the companies' high artistic standards while cutting their financing so drastically.
The outlook for companies below them, such as Tidal and Rhapsody/Napster, which reached 3m paying subscribers in 2015 but saw its losses grow by 66% to $35.5m that year, the best-case scenario is to sell up to avoid shutting down, as another rival Rdio did late in 2015.
To avoid shutting down the conversation, Dembicki says it helps to move away from moral framing.
