Queens nabes to be proving ground for trash overhaul plan
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Several Western Queens neighborhoods will get the city’s first taste of a long-awaited overhaul to New York City’s notorious private waste industry.
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Jackson Heights school health clinic closed by city with little explanation
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The little-explained closure of a city-run Gotham Health clinic inside a Jackson Heights school is hitting students and parents hard, and has left a gap in healthcare for students and families struggling to find it elsewhere.
Read MoreDisabled migrants struggle to find accommodations in NYC
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Several disabled migrants and their families have faced hurdles in their attempts to get the city to provide them with the accommodations they need to live a healthy life.
Read MoreElmhurst Hospital strike comes to an end as tentative agreement is reached
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After two full days on the picket line, resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital have tentatively agreed to a new labor contract with their employers at Mount Sinai, ending the historic strike.
Read MoreDoctors strike at Elmhurst Hospital
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Resident doctors at Elmhurst Hospital are on strike. It’s the first time doctors in the city have gone on strike in over three decades.
Read More‘Their loss is not forgotten’: Officials pitch bill to fund futures for kids who lost parents to COVID
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As the federal government’s emergency COVID-19 declaration came to end on Thursday, a group of families, doctors and lawmakers gathered in the Queens neighborhood that was once the epicenter of the pandemic and called on New Yorkers not to forget them, or the loved ones they lost.
Read MoreResidents set strike dates for higher wages at two Queens hospitals
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Interns and residents at two of Queens’ hospitals have announced that they will soon go on strike after the health network that runs the facilities did not meet their union’s demands for higher wages.
Read MoreMount Sinai Queens brings in cash to build new ICU
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Mount Sinai Queens took a step toward revamping its intensive care unit from eight to nearly two dozen beds after getting a major cash infusion from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and the Queens delegation of the City Council.
Read MoreAdams ends vax mandate for city workers
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Almost three years removed from the onset of the COVID pandemic, Mayor Eric Adams pulled back the vaccination requirement for city workers this week, repealing a measure put in place by his mayoral predecessor in the fall of 2021.
Read More‘Hope is being stripped away’: Lawmakers, advocates demand DOCCS eliminate new package policy
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“The men and women who are incarcerated, they need their packages back, they need to feel connected to the family members – it's as simple as that.”
Read MoreElmhurst Hospital urgent care remains closed nearly two years after pivot to vax hub
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In January 2021, an urgent care clinic in Elmhurst Hospital that offered undocumented and uninsured Queens residents needed access to low- and no-cost medical care was turned into a vaccination hub. But even as the city’s vaccination efforts have stalled, the hospital has not committed to reopening the clinic to in-person visits.
Read MorePublic defenders look for answers about monkeypox on Rikers
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Though there has yet to be a case detected in the city’s jails, the Legal Aid Society is calling on the city to be more transparent with its plans for vaccinating and treating its incarcerated population for monkeypox.
Read MoreCollaborative food pantry launches to fill void in Flushing
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A food collaborative has launched in Flushing after a major food pantry in the neighborhood was evicted last month. The organizations behind the new food pantry are figuring things out as they go.
Read More‘People are going to go hungry': La Jornada continues search for new home following NYCHA eviction
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Officials continue the search for a new home for La Jornada, a major food pantry in Western Queens that was evicted from its headquarters in a Flushing NYCHA complex at the end of last month.
Read More‘Get them to the door safely': Jamaica abortion clinic sees escort numbers grow following Roe reversal
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Following the overturning of federal abortion protections, a local women’s health clinic has seen an uptick in the number of people volunteering as clinic escorts – those who help patients make their way passed anti-abortion protestors and into the clinic.
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