Man shot by police in Queens
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A man who cops claimed was emotionally disturbed was shot by NYPD officers in Briarwood on Monday.
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Family of man killed by police calls for officers’ firing after AG releases bodycam video
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The family of a man shot and killed by police called for accountability after the state’s attorney general released footage of the fatal shooting on Tuesday.
Read MorePols want more info on police shooting in Far Rock that left man dead
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A trio of Queens elected officials are asking for a full investigation into a police shooting that left a 29-year-old man dead in Far Rockaway over the weekend.
Read MoreLocals rally as ICE’s presence in World’s Borough grows
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Queens locals and elected officials rallied in Western Queens over the weekend to protest the federal detention of a 6-year-old and his father as immigration agents were spotted in two separate Queens neighborhoods.
Read MoreState greenlights controversial gas pipeline off Queens coast
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The controversial natural gas pipeline that will run just miles from Queens’ shores secured its final approval from the state on Friday.
Read MoreOfficials and locals call on Hochul to stop pipeline
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A coalition of over 100 local and state elected officials are joining activists in calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to kill a controversial and potentially harmful fracked gas pipeline that would run off the coast of Queens.
Read MoreGonzález-Rojas launches insurgent campaign against Ramos
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A host of Queens elected officials immediately jumped to back State Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas in her bid to unseat State Senator Jessica Ramos, which the lawmaker officially kicked off Monday night.
Read MoreStudents rally for QueensLink project
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Queens College students rallied in Rego Park on Wednesday, calling for the city and mayoral candidates to invest the city’s cash into resurrecting an old train line in Southeast Queens.
Read MoreLocals want mayor to keep promise on Rockaway trauma center site
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As City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Mayor Eric Adams shook hands on a $115.9 billion city budget, many aspects remain unclear. Among them, if previously committed funds to secure a site for a trauma center in Rockaway will be included.
Read More‘Hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach’ on the revived A train
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Following a 17-week outage, the A train to the Rockaways is up and running again less than a week before peninsula’s beaches open for the summer.
Read MoreCity finds place to build long-desired Rockaway hospital
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Though a number of major questions remain about the city’s early efforts to bring a long-desired level one trauma hospital to the Rockaway peninsula, the city recently checked off a big to-do off their list – figuring out where it will be built.
Read MoreQueens Dems back Cuomo
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The Queens County Democratic Party and its chairman, Rep. Gregory Meeks, officially backed former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor over the weekend.
Read MoreCuomo and Speaker Adams backed by split Southeast Queens coalition
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Former Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to come away with a major endorsement victory over the weekend after a slate of Black elected officials from Southeast Queens encouraged their supporters to rank the Queens-raised Cuomo first on their Democratic mayoral primary ballots.
Read MoreGov leaves out atty student loan relief from budget
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Despite widespread support from lawmakers, district attorneys and public defenders alike, Governor Kathy Hochul did not allocate the $4 million in her recently released Executive Budget Proposal needed to enable legislation that would expand the District Attorney and Indigent Legal Service Attorney Loan Forgiveness program.
Read MorePols want city to put brakes on QueensWay as QueensLink is studied
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Queens officials want the city to slow down construction of a linear park on an old elevated train line in the borough that could potentially stop the line from being reactivated for transit.
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