City targets illegal truck parking in Queens
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The city is cracking down on illegal truck parking on residential roads, an issue officials say is a plague particular to Queens.
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'Just annoying': Queens voters cast ballots in second primary election this year
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Problems at the polls? An apt metaphor for the race for Queens only State Senate District? A voter spits on the ground after exiting a polling site? Did Queens’ second primary election in as many months have it all?
Read MoreGandhi statue in Richmond Hill vandalized for second time
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For the second time this month, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside of a Hindu temple in Richmond Hill was vandalized. While it suffered damage after the first attack, this time it was destroyed.
Read MoreQueens united over dividing lines
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Queens residents agree – the New York City Districting Commission’s proposed map of new council districts in the borough leave a lot to be desired.
Read MoreKonst drops out of Wester Queens Senate race, coalescing progressive vote behind Gonzalez
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The race for the only open State Senate district in Queens saw a major shakeup over the weekend as early voting began throughout New York State.
Read More‘People are going to go hungry': La Jornada continues search for new home following NYCHA eviction
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Officials continue the search for a new home for La Jornada, a major food pantry in Western Queens that was evicted from its headquarters in a Flushing NYCHA complex at the end of last month.
Read MoreDOC two months late on deadline to transfer part of Rikers Island
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The city has yet to issue any updates on the transfer of Rikers Island facilities to the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, after Mayor Eric Adams announced the July transfer would not happen.
Read MoreQueens Dems nominate Supreme Court candidates as reformers question process
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The largely pro forma judicial convention to nominate Supreme Court justice candidates to the Queens County Democratic Party’s line in November was met with dissent this week by a group of New Reformer delegates.
Read MoreFBI raids Queens man’s Florida home
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The FBI raided the Florida home of a Queens-born real estate developer on Monday as part of an investigation into whether or not he took classified documents from the White House.
Read MoreQueens Dems to choose Supreme Court nominees
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The Queens Democratic Party will meet Tuesday to nominate four judicial candidates to its party line in the November race for Queens Supreme Court justice. Find out who is expected to get the nomination and more about the process here.
Read MoreCurbside compost coming to Queens
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Beginning Oct. 3, all residential buildings in Queens will automatically get weekly compost and organic waste collection from the Department of Sanitation, Mayor Eric Adams announced.
Read MoreQueens bird burglars make Parks’ wanted list
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The National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are offering a reward to find whoever is behind a series of theft and destruction in protected bird nesting areas on Queens’ beaches.
Read MoreRichards rejects Innovation QNS
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Another blow to Innovation QNS. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards rejected efforts from developers to reshape five blocks in Astoria in an advisory recommendation this week.
Read MoreQueensboro Plaza to get accessibility upgrades
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A new elevator is coming to the Queensboro Plaza subway station after a private developer received city approval to build the accessibility upgrade in exchange for the right to build more stories in a nearby residential development last week.
Read MoreQueens org invited to steer federal response to gun violence
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“This was my big, hairy, audacious goal back in starting [Community Capacity Development],” K. Bain, the founder and executive director of the Queens organization invited to help steer the White House’s response to gun violence, recently told the Eagle. “When you have a goal like that, it has to happen that the federal government gets involved.”
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