Longtime Queens lawmaker Catherine Nolan dies at 67
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Catherine Nolan, who represented Queens in the State Assembly for nearly four decades, passed away on Wednesday, one day before what would have been her 68th birthday.
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BP says Queens still getting shortchanged in city budget
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Queens would receive less money per person than any other borough under the mayor’s proposed budget, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said this week.
Read More‘Trump Yard’: Locals worry they’ll be cut out of Mamdani, Trump Sunnyside Yard housing plan
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Western Queens locals are wary of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan to collaborate with President Donald Trump to build 12,000 units of housing in the World’s Borough, where the mayor once lived and where the president was raised.
Read MoreNorthern Queens locals want Mamdani to fulfill Adams’ precinct promise
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Locals in Northern Queens are once again calling for the city to meet their demands for a new police precinct in their community after it went unmentioned in the mayor’s preliminary budget released earlier this month.
Read MoreQueens community boards ask for funding amid city budget crunch
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Queens’ 14 community boards made their annual funding pitch to the borough president during a public hearing on Monday – but the city’s fiscal outlook may make getting additional dollars to the local boards more difficult.
Read MoreQueens slows to crawl after being blanketed by snow
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A historic blizzard blew into Queens Sunday, bringing the borough to a crawl and covering it in nearly two feet of dense snow that fell well into Monday afternoon.
Read MoreQueens pols call on notorious landlord to pay up after 2023 fire
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Queens residents are calling on A&E Real Estate, which was named the worst landlord in the city earlier this year, to pay $6 million to cover damages they suffered in a fire that evicted them from their homes more than two years ago.
Read MoreMamdani threatens property tax increase to balance budget if state won’t fill gap
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani threatened to dramatically raise property taxes in order to balance the city’s budget if the state does not raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents and corporations.
Read More‘Queens is the future,’ borough’s new road signs declare
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New signage greeting travelers on the borough’s major thoroughfares reads “Queens is the Future,” a nod to the borough’s diversity, vibrancy, growth as a destination and rise as a political power.
Read More‘Queens chooses not to comply’: Richards rebukes Trump at inauguration
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards slammed the Trump administration’s deportation efforts while celebrating Queens’ diversity during his inauguration celebration over the weekend.
Read MoreQueens digs itself out from harsh winter storm
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The World’s Borough was battered by an intense snowstorm along with much of the country over the weekend, leaving locals to dig themselves out of the mounds of powder and slush on Monday.
Read MoreHochul announces new Jamaica station in State of the State
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Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans to construct an entirely new Jamaica Station in Queens along with a host of other programs and investments during her State of the State address on Tuesday.
Read MorePols condemn ‘Hamas’ chants at Queens protest
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New York officials condemned chants in praise of Hamas used by pro-Palestinian protesters in Kew Gardens Hills on Thursday night outside a Queens synagogue.
Read MoreQueens community board wants Adams to make good on precinct pledge
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A Queens community board is calling on the Adams administration to make good on a pledge to explore bringing a new police precinct to Northern Queens before they leave office.
Read MoreQueens’ two casino plans clear penultimate hurdle
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Two developers proposing to build casinos in Queens cleared the penultimate hurdle on Monday, getting approval from a board tasked with evaluating their bids.
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