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Phase Two Begins Today, Here is What’s Open

June 22, 2020 Staff Report New York City entered Phase 2 of its reopening plan today. Restaurants, barbershops, retail stores and offices are all able to reopen, although subject to restrictions. Up to 300,000 more people are expected to return to work starting today. This is in addition to the hundreds of thousands who were… Read more »

PODCAST: We Speak to Badrun Khan, Looks to Unseat AOC

June 20, 2020 By Christian Murray Badrun Khan, a Sunnyside resident and a member of Queens Community Board 2, is running in the Democratic primary for the 14th Congressional District of New York. She faces incumbent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former CNBC reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. We speak to Khan about her campaign to unseat Ocasio-Cortez and why… Read more »

Man Gropes 17-Year-Old at 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue Station: NYPD

June 20, 2020 By Christian Murray The police have released a photo of a man who allegedly groped a 17-year-old female at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue subway station earlier this week. The suspect, according to police, grabbed the breast of the 17-year-old at around noon Thursday while she was on an escalator descending from the… Read more »

Bayside Resident Assaulted by Bigot in Anti-Asian Attack Caught on Camera

June 19, 2020 By Allie Griffin A Bayside resident was assaulted by an alleged bigot at a local 7-Eleven last week and the whole incident was caught on tape. Sungmin Kwon, a South Korean student at Queens College, was picking up snacks at the convenience store, located at 218-01 Northern Blvd., on June 13 when… Read more »

DSA Protesters Condemned for Demonstrating Outside Council Member Dromm’s Home, Banging on His Front Door

June 19, 2020 By Michael Dorgan Council Member Danny Dromm has condemned the actions of a large group of protesters who demonstrated outside his home Thursday afternoon. Around 100 Democratic Socialists converged outside his apartment building in Jackson Heights and demanded that the NYPD budget be slashed in half, Dromm said. The protesters were yelling… Read more »

153rd Street in Jamaica to Be Painted with Words “Black Lives Matter”

June 19, 2020 By Allie Griffin A street in Jamaica will be painted with the words “Black Lives Matter,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today. De Blasio said 153rd Street between Jamaica Avenue and Archer Avenue will be painted with the message — a rallying cry in protests against police brutality and the killing of… Read more »

Transit Group Calls on Mayor to Shift Portion of NYPD Funding to DOT

June 19, 2020 By Allie Griffin A street safety advocacy group is calling on the mayor to redistribute a portion of the NYPD budget to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and shift traffic enforcement away from police officers. Transportation Alternatives released a report Friday in which its members argue that police enforcement of traffic laws… Read more »

Police Searching for Hit-and-Run Driver Who Struck Pedestrian in Glendale Thursday

June 19, 2020 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for a driver who struck a 26-year-old pedestrian in Glendale early Thursday morning. The hit-and-run happened around 1:15 a.m. when the victim was crossing from east to west on Woodhaven Boulevard, near the intersection with Myrtle Avenue, police said. The victim was struck by an unidentified… Read more »