NYnaturalizations.com, gives public access to around 400,000 naturalization records signed in the courts of Queens and the Bronx between 1794 and 1952. he database is the culmination of a plan that was hatched four and a half years ago and unveiled Thursday at the Queens Public Library on Merrick Boulevard.
Read MoreNew York City’s beaches opened to fanfare on Friday on Queens’ Rockaway peninsula where local leaders, residents and one giant bird rang in the start of summer season in the World’s Borough.
Read MoreAstoria Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani recently introduced "Not on our dime!: Ending New York funding of Israeli settler violence act,” a bill that would stop tax-exempt registered nonprofits in New York from helping to fund the State of Israel’s settlement activities in the West Bank, which have been deemed illegal by the United Nations. That legislation is now garnering condemnation from dozens of his legislative colleagues who have called it antisemetic.
Read MoreIt took two months to decide but Stacey Pheffer Amato has been reelected to represent Queens Assembly District 23, beating out Republican Thomas Sullivan by 15 votes.
Read MoreFourteen ballots have been added to the race for Assembly District 23, where incumbent Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato leads her Republican challenger, Thomas Sullivan, by one vote.
Read MoreA panel of Appellate Division, Second Department justices ruled late Tuesday afternoon that nearly 100 previously rejected absentee ballots cast in the race for Queens’ Assembly District 23 will be sent back to the individual voters to be “cured.” The ruling opens the door for 94 ballots to be re-entered into a race where only one vote separates candidates Thomas Sullivan and Stacey Pheffer Amato, who currently holds the lead.
Read MoreIf there was ever an election to prove the power of a single vote, it is the race to represent Queens’ 23rd Assembly District.
Read MoreWith only three votes separating incumbent Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato and Republican challenger Thomas Sullivan, the two candidates went to court to argue over the validity of about 100 absentee ballots, which could sway the race if a judge rules that they can be counted.
Read MoreEight votes is all that separates incumbent Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer Amato and Republican challenger Thomas Sullivan in the race for Assembly District 23.
Read MoreIn an election where several Republican challengers threatened to flip a number of Democratic seats in Queens, only one appears to have prevailed, unofficial Election Day results show.
Read MoreDozens of environmentally conscious volunteers gathered for a Jamaica Bay cleanup during the first weekend in February, collecting hundreds of pounds of garbage.
Read More“We must hear the Parks Department’s plan for the rest of the summer, so we can be proactive and avoid these very preventable tragedies.”
Read More“No matter where you live or what your background is, you should feel safe going into the water or know when not to go into the water.”
Read MoreMore than a quarter of female victims of sexual violence first experience the abuse before age 18.
Read More“Rockaway Mutual Aid has been touched by the overwhelming support the community has shown in the aftermath of the fridge’s removal.”
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