Nearly 100 candidates file petitions to run in Queens
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Nearly 100 people in the World’s Borough have submitted petitions to appear on the ballot in June’s primary elections for Assembly, State Senate and Congress.
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Meng draws in more support for reelection bid
/Queens Representative Grace Meng was endorsed by retiring Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Monday as she continues to draw support in her reelection bid against an insurgent progressive in New York’s 6th Congressional District.
Read MoreQueens lawmakers call on St. John’s to resume union negotiations
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Two Queens congressmembers joined the growing calls against St. John’s University to reverse their controversial decision to cut ties with their long-time faculty unions.
Read MoreQueens reps blast ICE but won’t call for its abolition
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Two of Queens’ longest-serving members of Congress sharply criticized the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement on Thursday, but stopped short of joining fellow Democrats calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read MoreQueens man arrested for attacking rabbi on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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A man was arrested for an alleged antisemitic attack on a Queens rabbi in Forest Hills on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Read MoreQueens reps catch criticism for previous ICE votes
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Two Queens representatives took heat this week for votes that appeared to support Immigration Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which has come under fire after ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in the past month.
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 government worker to challenge Meng
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A former diplomat and city government worker from Queens launched a bid to unseat Rep. Grace Meng from Congress, marking only the second time Meng has had a primary challenger in the past decade.
Read MoreQueens pols stay mum on Mamdani after Hochul endorsement
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Queens’ 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 MoreTrump cuts threaten to make Queens’ flooding issues worse, pols say
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Another round of federal cuts from the Trump administration are threatening projects meant to mitigate one of Queens’ most notable issues – flooding.
Read MoreBiden signs bill aimed combat flooding in Queens into law
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President 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 MoreQueens electeds warn against City of Yes as milestone approaches
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Elected officials primarily from Northeastern Queens gathered in Bayside this week and imagined a world where the mayor’s controversial City of Yes for Housing Opportunity proposal becomes a reality – and they don’t like how it looks.
Read MoreLegislature shoots down congressional maps in favor of their own
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Democrats in the state legislature voted on Monday to toss out congressional redistricting lines drawn by a bipartisan commission, choosing to draw and propose their own maps – which have little impact on district boundaries in Queens.
Read MoreCommission unveils mostly unchanged congressional district map
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The New York State Independent Redistricting Commission voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a new state congressional district map that looks a lot like the one drawn by a court-appointed special master in 2022 following a litigious redistricting process that may not yet be out of the woods.
Read MorePaul Vallone, former Queens councilmember, dies at 56
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Paul Vallone, a former Queens councilmember and member of one of the borough’s most notable political families, died over the weekend of an apparent heart attack. He was 56.
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