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Jan. 30, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Early voting for the special election for New York’s third congressional district will begin Saturday, Feb. 3 and will run through Feb. 11. Voters in the district, which covers eastern Queens and the northern section of Long Island, will have several voting sites to choose from as they cast...
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Jan. 24, 2024 By Czarinna Andres The Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the waterfront parks in Long Island City, has been awarded two grants totaling $35,636 to enhance Gantry Plaza State Park. The first grant, announced earlier this month, is for $10,625 and will be directed toward acquiring additional... Read more »
Dec. 26, 2023 By Ben Brachfeld The MTA is moving forward with plans to redesign its subway turnstiles, taking the first steps to procure a replacement for fare gates that officials say are too easy to hop over.
Dec. 18, 2023 By Bill Parry The city announced Monday that it has closed a deal with developer Slate Property Group and the nonprofit RiseBoro Community Partnership to convert the shuttered JFK Hilton Hotel in South Jamaica into 318 apartments of permanently affordable housing for low-income and formerly homeless New Yorkers. Construction on the project...
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Dec. 1, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki, with reporting by Ben Brachfeld, Michael Malaszczyk and Ethan Stark-Miller George Santos, we hardly knew ye. After a turbulent 11 months in office, Santos was unceremoniously expelled from the House of Representatives Friday — a rare moment of overwhelming bipartisanship that reflected the gravity of the fraud allegations…
Dec. 1, 2023 By Ethan Marshall Following the expulsion of controversial Queens/Long Island Congressman George Santos from the House of Representatives Friday morning, several Queens community leaders and some of Santos’ political rivals were quick to react to the news. Local elected officials, as well as those who have run or intend to run for...
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Dec. 1, 2023 By Michael Malaszczyk By George, Santos is gone.
Nov. 30, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan This week’s Bayside Hills Civic Association meeting centered around opposition to the City of Yes Zoning for Housing Opportunity — a plan put forward by Mayor Eric Adams to address the city’s lack of affordable housing by curtailing zoning restrictions to allow for an influx of new units. The meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 28, inside the Colonial Church of Bayside, welcomed dozens of local residents to hear a presentation from a local zoning expert on what the proposal would mean for eastern Queens. Afterwards, the majority of attendees appeared to be collectively in opposition,...
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Nov. 29, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for the three teenage boys who allegedly threw ice at an on-duty MTA subway conductor as she was operating the train doors at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station during the afternoon of Saturday, Nov. 18. Police say the three boys threw ice at her, striking her in the face before running out of the station in an unknown direction, police said. The 49-year-old victim sustained minor injuries and EMS transported her to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Queens in stable condition. The NYPD released surveillance...
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Nov. 16, 2023 By Bill Parry When embattled Assemblymember Juan Ardila seeks re-election next year, he will not have the scores of volunteers from the Working Families Party knocking on doors in western Queens for him like they did in 2022 when the Maspeth native was elected to represent District 37 in Albany. Ardila officially... Read more »