Tensions heat up at City of Yes hearing
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Tensions got hot at a recent meeting to discuss the city’s City of Yes of Housing Opportunity.
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Three QPL branches to reopen following budget restorations
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Three Queens library branches currently under construction and previously at risk of not reopening, will soon open their doors as a result of new funding included in the recently passed city budget, the Queens Public Library system said on Tuesday.
Read MoreQueens AM Rajkumar explores comptroller bid
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Queens Assemblymember Jenifer Rajkumar, who is perhaps Mayor Eric Adams’ closest elected ally, is exploring a run at the city comptroller’s office.
Read MoreRikers receivership case sluggishly moves forward
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For the first time in nearly seven months, the city’s Department of Correction on Tuesday appeared before the federal judge currently considering whether or not the city should be stripped of its control of Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex that has seen over two dozen deaths in the past two years.
Read MoreFamily seeks answers about son’s death on Rikers
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The family of a Bayside man who died on Rikers Island last year is suing the city’s Department of Correction after the agency allegedly wrongly withheld information about the man’s death.
Read MoreCan the Department of Correction's new commissioner fix Rikers Island?
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Department of Correction Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie says she can reform the jails on Rikers Island, but decades of dysfunction suggests otherwise.
Read MoreCity partially funds longshot Rockaway trauma hospital proposal
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When Mayor Eric Adams announced the city had made a budget agreement last Friday, he chose to highlight one specific budget note in one specific Queens neighborhood; the Rockaway peninsula trauma center.
Read MoreSpeed limits on a dozen Queens streets to drop below 25 mph
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Drivers on certain streets in Queens are going to need to slow down in the near future as the city begins to implement a state law designed to increase safety on city streets.
Read MorePlanning commission chair discusses City of Yes’ potential impact on Queens
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Dan Garodnick, the chair of the CPC and the director of the Department of City Planning, spoke with the Eagle to discuss the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity.
Read MoreOfficials once again call for water safety measures following Rockaway drownings
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Following the drowning of two teens in the waters off of Rockaway Beach, locals are once again calling for increased safety measures along the borough’s and city’s shores.
Read MoreFamily of man who died after Rikers Island detention sues city for $100 million
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The family of a 31-year-old man whose death in Department of Correction custody remains disputed over a year after it happened recently filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city.
Read MoreSunnyside tenants displaced by fire to remain in temporary homes under new agreement
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Tenants who lived in a Sunnyside building before it was destroyed by a fire late last year will receive another six months of temporary housing from their landlord, who faced public pressure in recent days to extend the tenants’ housing after initially threatening to end it.
Read MoreGov’s Interborough Express faces uncertain future after gov’s congestion pricing pause
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A little more than two years after Governor Kathy Hochul first introduced plans to build the Interborough Express, the future of her ambitious plan to build the much-needed public transit option for Queens and Brooklyn residents appears to be uncertain, almost entirely as a result of the governor's own 11th-hour pause on the implementation of the MTA’s congestion pricing plan.
Read MoreJump in! : Astoria Park pool reopens after renovations
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After being closed down for renovations last summer, the Astoria Park pool, the city’s largest swimming pool, mostly opened up to the public again Thursday, along with public pools throughout the five boroughs.
Read MoreLittle Neck native takes over anchor chair on NY1
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Shannan Ferry, a Little Neck native, recently took over as the anchor of “News All Day” on Spectrum News NY1.
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