Several swastikas were found spraypainted in two Queens parks on Monday, a week after antisemitic graffiti was sprawled on a synagogue and a Jewish Center in the borough.
Read MoreA bridge located on 69th Street just off of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, has recently begun shedding debris, dropping rocks and other bridge parts onto the roads and pedestrians underneath it, according to City Councilmember Robert Holden.
Read MoreShould a rotting rail line snaking through Central and South Queens be resurrected as a park or a new subway line? Queens has its answer – for now.
Read More. “Joining forces to serve the Southeast Queens community makes perfect sense.”
Read More“It is critical that as future hearings are scheduled that every effort is made to ensure that these conflicts don’t exist.”
Read More“The lines divide us in a way that dilutes our ability to be a strong voice… stop dividing us, keep us whole.”
Read More“We will build the QueensWay, transforming what is now a deteriorating, rusty railway into a public amenity filled with new greenspace and park land.”
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Claire Shulman in 2019. File photo by Walter Karling
By David Brand
Late Queens Borough President Claire Shulman’s name will live on at the government office where she presided for 16 years.
Starting Monday, Queens Borough Hall will be located at “One Claire Shulman Way,” a vanity address that will appear on a street sign outside the building.
“Claire Shulman was a larger-than-life figure who consistently defied expectations with her uncanny ability to get things done for the people of Queens,” current Borough President Donovan Richards said Friday.
Shulman served as borough president for four terms, from 1986 to 2002. She died in August 2020 at age 94.
During her tenure, she presided over dozens of rezonings, including the 2001 plan that would pave the way for skyscrapers in Long Island City.
She also worked to establish or grow major cultural institutions in Queens, including the Queens Museum of Art, Queens Theatre, the Museum of the Moving Image and Flushing Town Hall, which honored Shulman at their 40th anniversary gala last year.
Richards and other Queens leaders will unveil the new street sign Monday at 11 a.m. The formal address of Queens Borough Hall will remain 120-55 Queens Blvd.
Council candidates have received $26,657,242 in public matching funds.
Read More“I would never vote for the guy, but this is not how we do things.”
Read MoreThe money has yet to flow ahead of the Council District 24 primary.
Read MoreA new law was supposed to keep Hiram Monserrate from running for a Queens council seat. He’s trying to do it anyway.
Read MoreTreacherous roadways surround Queens’ open space jewels, Forest Park and Flushing Meadows Park.
Read More“Anyone who has an appointment and is otherwise eligible to be vaccinated is not being turned away.”
Read MoreJuan Ardila is taking on incumbent Councilmember Robert Holden.
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