Many problems, many solutions: Local pols pitch new plan to fix Roosevelt Ave after mayor, gov launch their own efforts
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Everyone agrees that Roosevelt Avenue has issues. But no one appears to agree on how to solve them.
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Opinion: Legal assistance for immigrants is a moral imperative and an economic opportunity
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“Hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in our state face the terrifying prospect of deportation and forced family separation, simply because they do not have access to legal representation in a complex and often unforgiving immigration system.”
Read More‘This has to stop’: Queens pols and families call for street safety measures after recent traffic deaths
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Queens elected officials and families are saying enough is enough when it comes to traffic fatalities as they mourn the recent deaths of two children on Queens streets.
Read MoreGov signs Queens pols’ Rape is Rape bill
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Governor Kathy Hochul signed a Queens assemblymember’s bill, which looks to expand the state’s definition of rape, into law on Tuesday.
Read MoreLocal pols want G train restored to former Queens glory
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Several Queens and Brooklyn elected officials are calling on the MTA to consider running the G train along its former route, deeper into Queens, now that the transit authority has announced plans to do work on the line that will likely cause major service disruptions.
Read MoreOfficials push for universal representation in immigration courts
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As New York City continues to manage a historic influx of migrants and asylum seekers, a group of legislators and advocates are looking to require those migrants have fair representation in New York’s courts.
Read MoreNY to soon seal convictions of over 2 million New Yorkers
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The Clean Slate Act, a historic bill that will eventually automatically seal the convictions of over two million New Yorkers, was signed into law by the governor on Thursday.
Read MoreQueens officials defend food vendors in Corona Plaza
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A Queens locale known for its vibrancy and culture was the site of a late night city crackdown on illegal vendors last week, done with little notice to the vendors or local elected officials, who held a rally on Wednesday protesting what they said was heavy-handed enforcement from the city.
Read MoreQueens voters think outside the box in race for district attorney
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Not all of the 64,000 Queens voters who cast a ballot in the recent Democratic primary race for Queens district attorney bubbled in a vote for incumbent DA Melinda Katz or challengers George Grasso or Devian Daniels. Instead, a small portion of the Queens electorate chose to write-in a candidate for the borough’s top prosecutor.
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 MoreAnti-LGBTQ+ agitators protest Jackson Heights block party
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A block party celebrating Queens’ LGBTQ+ community was interrupted Saturday by a group of anti-LGBTQ+ agitators in Jackson Heights. But despite several tense moments, organizers of the event say the protesters did little but bring the party’s participants closer together.
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‘It’s going to be very ugly’: Major Queens food pantry faces eviction
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La Jornada, a food pantry in Flushing that serves over 10,000 families in Northwest Queens, is being evicted from its NYCHA headquarters by the public housing authority at the end of the month. The mayor offered to help find the nonprofit a new space but with two weeks remaining, one has yet to be found.
Read MoreArdila announces bid for Nolan’s Assembly seat
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Juan Ardila, a former City Council candidate, is running to replace Cathy Nolan in the State Assembly.
Read MoreQueens electeds blast city, state response to COVID testing crisis
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“We all should be in a place where we are able to learn from our best practices, learn our lessons and really put forth the protocols and the safety that is needed.”
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