Diwali still not a school holiday, despite NYC's surging South Asian population
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“This recognition brings education and awareness.”
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Queens judge temporarily halts Flushing Main Street busway
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The city began implementation earlier this month.
Read MoreYour Votes. Your Voices. They Mattered.
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Carole Wacey is president & CEO Women Creating Change.
Read More‘We’re running out of time’ — Stringer slams schools pandemic response at Queens town hall
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“The city government has got to go door to door and go to these children, because they did not cause this pandemic, they are not responsible for the incompetence of the department of education.”
Read MoreNYC’s first ranked-choice election is coming to Queens. Are voters ready?
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“I don’t know what it is.”
Read MoreCouncilmembers press Flushing Waterfront developers on lack of affordable housing
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“Why should we not expect a level of affordable housing? Over 70,000 people are living in homeless shelters and you’re talking about nonsensical [regulations] and saying you don’t need to do affordable housing.”
Read MoreNo matter who is president, we must commit to equality, freedom and justice
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Dalvanie K. Powell is president of the United Probation Officers Association.
Read MoreQueens man evicted
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Donald Trump is the first person from Queens to lose the presidency after a single term.
Read MoreSpecial election for Lancman's Queens council seat will take place Feb. 2
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Another election? It must be Groundhog Day.
Read MoreAt Court Square gathering, Queens residents stand up for their neighbors
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“Within all of our power is what happens beyond a presidential race, in reimagining and reenvisioning a world that is far different than the one we currently inhabit, and the one we will inhabit even if Joe Biden is the president of the United States of America.”
Read MoreVelázquez, Gillibrand demand answers from NYCHA over lead paint
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“Every single New Yorker, no matter their income or race, deserves to live in safe, lead-free homes with proper ventilation.”
Read MoreBraunstein trails Republican challenger in Queens Assembly race
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“You can never take these races for granted.”
Read More13 candidates win seats on Queens bench, including four new Civil Court judges
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Thirteen judges, all Democrats, won seats on the Civil and Supreme Court benches in Queens Tuesday.
Queens elects four trailblazing freshman lawmakers
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Khaleel Anderson, Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas, Zohran Mamdani and Jenifer Rajkumar will take office for the first time in 2021.
Read MoreKhaleel Anderson wins Queens Assembly seat, becoming New York’s youngest-ever Black state lawmaker
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Anderson joins Teddy Roosevelt, Ruben Diaz Jr. and Richard Gottfried as New York’s youngest-ever assemblymembers.
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