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 MoreMore than a dozen Queens lawmakers signed on to a letter with around 100 other elected officials calling on federal Democrats to push for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreQueens’ Democratic establishment has yet to endorse Democratic mayoral nominee and Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani after Governor Kathy Hochul threw her weight behind the local candidate over the weekend.
Read MoreFor about two hours over the weekend Southeast Queens was the center of the city’s political galaxy –– a place Queens as a whole has been increasingly finding itself in.
Read MorePresident Joe Biden signed a bill into law this week that aims to combat excessive flooding in Queens by sending close to $200 million to the borough to shore up its resiliency infrastructure.
Read MoreFederal officials put $117 million into a proposal to bring a park to an abandoned rail line in Central and South Queens dubbed the QueensWay this week.
Read MoreU.S. Senator Chuck Schumer announced on Sunday he is introducing a resolution to honor a Queens legend. Schumer, a Brooklyn native, announced this week that he intends to introduce a resolution to dub Aug. 3 “Tony Bennett Day,” in honor of the Queens-born singer who died last week.
Read MoreWith fears that the asylum seeker crisis in New York City may worsen with the ending of Title 42, a majority of the city’s congressional representatives signed a joint letter addressed to President Joe Biden looking for his help in allowing the migrants to work.
Read MoreQueens elected officials from the local, state and federal level joined community leaders in Richmond Hill Sunday to denounce a recent alleged hate attack on a Sikh man visiting Queens.
Read More“It is us, immigrant workers who built this city, it us… who have helped the city survive a pandemic and continue to risk our lives.”
Read MoreThe federal government has expanded eligibility for its COVID-19 funeral assistance program.
Read More“Building a new fracked gas power plant when we need to rapidly end our reliance on fossil fuels imperils our ability to fight climate change and treats communities like Astoria as sacrificial lambs.”
Read More“For far too long, our public housing infrastructure needs have been left unaddressed, left to get worse.”
