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May. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry The New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced on Monday, May 1, that it secured approval to utilize a $455 million loan to build the long-awaited, new thoroughbred racing facilities at Belmont Park.
April 26, 2023 By Christian Murray Juan Ardila, the Queens assemblymember who has been accused by two women of sexual assault and refused to step down from office, has come under fire for posting photos of himself at a community event without the permission of the attendees and the organizers. Ardila attended an Earth Day gardening... Read more »
Apr. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry In addition to worrying about the upcoming final exams and summer employment opportunities, the thousands of St. John’s University students — and other motorists — who drive into Queens from Long Island each day have a new concern after New York state recently deployed mobile speed cameras along the...
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Apr. 19, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller With Mayor Eric Adams' calls for the White House to assist the city with the migrant crisis falling on deaf ears, he declared on Wednesday that “the national government has turned its back on New York City.” Adams made the pronouncement — perhaps his sharpest rebuke of President…
April 13, 2023, By Bill Parry With the New York State budget nearly two weeks late and negotiations between Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature struggling to move forward, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led a rally in Astoria to hopefully influence the final budget. The elected officials on Wednesday, April 13, urged state... Read more »
Apr. 11, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have made their pick for where the party’s 2024 national convention will be hosted — and it’s not the Big Apple.
Apr. 3, 2023 By Ben Brachfeld Two construction workers are dead following a fatal workplace accident at John F. Kennedy Airport Monday morning. The workers were killed after a trench collapsed at a construction site on airport grounds shortly after 11 am, according to published reports. The Port Authority said that the workers became…
Mar. 30, 2023 Schneps Media It’s time for the “three people in the room” traditionally responsible for working out New York’s annual budget to deliver a front-page rescue for New York state’s journalism industry. That rescue comes in the form of the “Local Journalism Sustainability Act” (S.625/A.2958), one of the many legislative items now…
March 29, 2023 By Michael Dorgan A pair of Queens lawmakers took part in a rally in Jackson Heights on Friday, March 24, calling on state lawmakers to help make basement and cellar apartments safer for tenants to live in. Assembly members Steve Raga and Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas joined housing advocates and community groups at Diversity... Read more »
Mar. 27, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller Following an afternoon of closed-door meetings with state legislative leaders, Mayor Eric Adams said that while he’s seeking changes to “criminal justice reforms” in the state budget for this fiscal year — due April 1, it’s up to Albany lawmakers to determine if the rollbacks to bail reform Governor...
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