Future of new Queens Senate district in limbo
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Whether or not Queens’ new State Senate district stays as is, has its electoral lines altered or is eliminated altogether is up in the air.
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Q70 soon to be free ride to LGA
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The Q70 bus to LaGuardia Airport will temporarily be free to riders as the Port Authority continues its review of alternative public transit options to the airport.
Read MoreAssigned counsel attys rally for better pay
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Attorneys representing indigent clients and children in Family Court, including a handful from Queens, rallied in Manhattan and Long Island Thursday to call for a pay raise after not seeing one in nearly two decades.
Read MoreInfield pie rule: Mets slugger dishes on his fav Queens slice
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“I got to go with my local, Long Island City – it’s called sLICe, it’s my local pizza joint there.”
Read MoreRedistricting redo: Court of Appeals strikes down district lines
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New York’s highest court ordered the state to throw out its recently drawn congressional and State Senate district maps.
Read MoreClean Slate passes codes committee
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A bill championed by criminal justice reformers that aims to erase the criminal records of a number of New Yorkers is beginning to make its way through the State Legislature.
Read MoreFlushing Library reopens
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The Flushing Queens Public Library Branch reopened Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
Read MoreInnovation QNS begins city’s review process
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The developers behind Innovation QNS, a massive, multi-block development planned in Astoria, moved this week to officially subject the project to the city’s review process.
Read MoreAdams launches push for green buildings in Queens
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Mayor Eric Adams visited a co-op in Forest Hills on Friday to celebrate Earth Day with the launch of a new campaign to promote clean energy swaps in buildings.
Read MoreHome care advocates let down by budget
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Despite seeing pay increases in the state budget, home care workers need a larger wage increase in order to stave off the growing labor shortage, lawmakers and advocates say.
Read MoreBP assembles environmental group to lead Queens’ climate efforts
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Queens Borough President Donovan Richards assembled his own Queens version of the Planeteers Thursday to announce the first-ever advisory board focused solely on equipping the borough for the climate crisis.
Read MoreInnovation QNS town hall gets tense
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Emotions flared Wednesday night at a town hall listening session organized by the developers behind the massive Innovation QNS project in Astoria.
Read MoreHandyman arrested for murder of Forest Hills mom
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The man believed to be responsible for the gruesome stabbing death of a Forest Hills mother over the weekend was arrested by the NYPD on Thursday.
Read MoreImmigrant legal service providers call for funding boost
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A group of legal service providers rallied virtually Wednesday to urge the city to boost funding legal services for immigrant New Yorkers.
Read MoreJamaica community garden gets funds to help grow
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Paradise Community Garden in Jamaica is getting help from a nonprofit to continue their work in the Southeast Queens community.
