Fallen soldier remembered at emotional funeral in Queens
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The Ozone Park and Queens community laid to rest a fallen neighbor on Friday.
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Queens officials push for new era at Flushing Meadows Corona Park
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Officials in Queens said this week that they want to reverse decades of underfunding of the borough’s largest and most well-known green space, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Read MoreLIC community leaders question Mamdani-backed housing development
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The Mamdani administration announced a plan to build 1,000 homes on a vacant city-owned lot in Long Island City earlier this week – but some community leaders say the project won’t go far enough to make Queens' most expensive neighborhood more affordable.
Read MoreCity’s ‘worst landlord’ illegally overcharged Queens residents millions in rent, lawsuit alleges
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The city’s “worst landlords” are facing a new class action lawsuit after they allegedly overcharged rent-stabilized Queens residents by millions of dollars without implementing legally required improvements to their apartments.
Read MoreQueens College faculty calls for CUNY to reverse cuts
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Faculty members at Queens’ largest City University of New York college are pushing back against budget cuts, which have led to a number of cancelled classes and layoffs of adjunct professors.
Read MorePublic defender org accused of illegally offering cash bonuses to disrupt strike
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A public defender union has accused its employer of offering cash incentives to members who cross the picket line as a mass legal aid strike continues across the city.
Read MoreMTA wants to fix Queens stations to address citywide bottleneck issues
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The MTA says it needs to make changes to two Queens stations in order to address major bottleneck issues centered in Brooklyn.
Read MoreMeeks wants Queens soldier included in Iran war death count
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A Queens congressmember blasted the Trump administration for removing Staff Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, who was from Queens, and three others from the Iran war’s official death toll.
Read MoreRaymond sworn in as new city sheriff
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There is a new sheriff in town after Edwin Raymond was sworn into the role on Monday.
Read MoreQueens pol wants Hochul to pass moratorium on battery storage sites
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A freshman Queens councilmember who inherited his predecessor’s beef with a company trying to build a lithium-ion battery storage site in the district wants the governor to pass a moratorium on their construction statewide.
Read MoreLawsuit heads to trial as tenants allege years of neglect at Jamaica towers
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While most New York City apartments come with at least one headache, tenants living at The Crossing, a two-building affordable housing apartment complex on Archer Avenue and 148th Street, say that nearly everything that could go wrong in a building has gone wrong in theirs.
Read More‘A hero, plain and simple’: Queens family mourns fallen local soldier
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Sergeant Angel Sarah Rampersad, the Queens soldier killed in the ongoing war with Iran, was remembered by her family and community as a local hero who always wanted to serve during a vigil outside her Ozone Park home on Thursday.
Read MoreResorts World breaks ground on second phase of casino project
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Resorts World broke ground on all of the non-casino aspects of their expansion plan on Wednesday.
Read MoreMayor, chief judge appoint members to revive Judicial Advisory Committee
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The mayor, chief judge and appellate division supervising judges appointed 18 members to the once nearly vacant Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary on Wednesday.
Read MoreQueens soldier killed in war with Iran
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A 28-year-old Queens native was among the three service members killed by an Iranian missile last week.
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