Queens nabes to be proving ground for trash overhaul plan
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Several Western Queens neighborhoods will get the city’s first taste of a long-awaited overhaul to New York City’s notorious private waste industry.
Read More‘A miracle’ : Queens residents get excited about IBX, but new rail line likely won’t come any time soon
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Queens residents filed into an Elmhurst elementary school last week to hear MTA officials pitch the Interborough Express, a proposed light rail line to connect Queens to Brooklyn that could eventually eliminate an aggravating and time-consuming trip through Manhattan for thousands of riders a day.
Read MoreNo word yet on jail officials’ controversial plan to intercept detainee mail
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The Board of Correction will form a committee to discuss jail officials’ controversial plan to intercept detainee mail on Rikers Island. The Department of Correction claims that the mail is increasingly being used to send drugs and other contraband into the jails. The claim is heavily disputed.
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