Queens Library Branch Marks 85 Years Serving the Community
As part of the Queens Library System, which serves a population of 2.3 million in one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S.,…
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DOT Studying Pedestrian Plaza for Possible Changes
Community Board 9 this week decided that it would scrap a letter it had intended to send to the city Department of Transportation regarding concerns…
Borough Keeping Buildings Department Busy
It seems that Queens continues to keep the city Department of Buildings very busy. That was the story Tuesday night at the Community Board 9…
Rego Park Republican Set to Take on Addabbo
The reputations of the city and state legislatures have been in tatters for so long now—so many elected officials have been charged and convicted of…
Centreville Sewer Project Moving Forward After Decades of Delays
To Centreville residents, or those who live close to Albert Road in Ozone Park, the mere mention of the now 30-years-overdue sewer and infrastructure project…
QueensWay Draws Raves, but Some Still Oppose Park Plan
Friends of the QueensWay and the Trust for Public Land this week released the much-anticipated QueensWay Plan, a study which both groups jointly characterized as…
School Says Afterschool Program Slots Still Available
One of the pillars of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first year in office has been afterschool programming for middle-school students. And according to the head…
Suit Settlement Paves Way for City’s Disabled to Seek Storm Shelter
A federal judge’s decision last week will produce impactful changes in the way the city responds to natural disasters, according to local advocates. Judge Jesse…
Pols, Communities Call on State to Improve Evacuation Routes and Signs
Emergency evacuation infrastructure and route signage along the Nassau Expressway and connecting roadways in southern Queens and southwestern Nassau County are in desperate need of…
Area Communities Tops in State Reading Program
More than 100 students from the communities that comprise state Senate District 15 last week received official certificates from the Senate after emerging on top…
Loan Reforms Could Help Students Struggling With Debt
With nearly 40 million student loan borrowers holding more than $1.2 trillion in student-loan debt, federal statistics now show that student-loan debt has surpassed credit…
Civic Leaders, Pols Discuss Emergency Prep with New OEM Chief
While it has been nearly two years since Superstorm Sandy descended on the city, leaving unimaginable destruction in its wake on the Rockaway peninsula and…
Ulrich, QEDC Announce Anti-Graffiti Program
After surveying the transformed brick wall—minutes earlier covered in various forms of graffiti, now barely showing the healed scars from years of illegal paint jobs—an…
Mayor Touts $130 Million Community Parks Initiative
With already a few ambitious projects set to define his mayoralty, Mayor Bill de Blasio this week launched another large-scale initiative, this time aimed at…
Woodhaven Civic Calls Sanitation Fines Unfair
The city Sanitation Department this week promised to investigate an area civic organization’s claim that the agency is engaging in an “unfair practice of…