NY Queens news

• Velazquez talks U.S. infrastructure, drugs

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens) last Saturday offered two issues on which Republicans and Democrats could put their differences aside to better the country — improving the country
  
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• Twist and shout in Glendale

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The construction of the new pedestrian plaza at the Glendale Veterans Triangle brought more headaches than originally planned. But now that it’s over and the space is open to the public, the city thou
  
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• Tortoise swiped from Alley Pond Environmental Center

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Millennium, an African spurred tortoise who is a longtime favorite of visitors to the Alley Pond Environmental Center in Little Neck, was stolen sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.Sasha
  
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• Supreme Court case cited in Silver decision

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Why was disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s conviction overturned last Thursday after a jury found him guilty of corruption in 2015?The answer lies with a barely one-year-old U.S. Supreme C
  
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• Suozzi: FAA meeting a success

  20-07-2017 16:30
  Although the freshman congressman had previously expressed frustration with the Federal Aviation Administration over its handling of his constituents’ airplane noise concerns, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-Suffo
  
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• Stringer: Calamus Avenue a ‘war zone’

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  It’s been called hell, a war zone and what looks like the site of a bombing.That’s how terribly residents and elected officials believe the Calamus Avenue sewer project in Maspeth has been going.
  
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• Stringer and Holden get down, dirty over sewers

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  It was just nine months ago when Juniper Park Civic Association President Bob Holden told city Comptroller Scott Stringer that he would be the first person to give him money, should the latter run for
  
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• SOP man arraigned on hit-and-run rap

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The South Ozone Park man charged with the hit-and-run death of a tow truck driver on I-95 last December was arraigned before a Westchester judge last Thursday, the county’s district attorney announced
  
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• Smartphone parking app comes to Queens

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Tired of asking colleagues or family members for spare quarters to fill up the parking meter outside?New York City drivers looking for a quicker and easier way to pay for parking can now use ParkNYC,
  
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• Skin cancer: the signs and how to prevent it

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Summer brings to mind fun stuff like hitting the beach and fireworks. But damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays during the season is nothing to joke about.Whether you’re boogie-boarding in the Rockaw
  
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• SBS construction irks Woodhaven

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Many Woodhaven residents have long feared the ramifications of bringing Select Bus Service to the community’s main drag — and now those fears are being realized.The transportation initiative — which w
  
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• Running, biking and giving

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Running, biking, swimming and giving.Those were the four activities three members of the Howard Beach Kiwanis Club engaged in July 16 as they raised more than $5,000 for Ronald McDonald House while pa
  
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• Ruben Wills’ case handed to the jury

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Councilman Ruben Wills’ fate now sits in the hands of the jury that now is deliberating in his trial on corruption charges.Wills (D-Jamaica) is being prosecuted by the office of state Attorney General
  
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• Rozic holding mobile office

  20-07-2017 16:30
  Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) is bringing her office to the people of her district.Having kicked it off on Monday in Oakland Gardens, the assemblywoman has set four other locations where
  
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• Resorts World slots have highest payback

  20-07-2017 16:30
  Those playing the slots in Resorts World Casino New York City are more likely to see a return on their investment than anywhere else in the country, according to a new study from the American Casino G
  
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• Resorts World makes big bet on Queens

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  It’s now time for Resorts World Casino to do some gambling — putting its future on the line by investing $400 million into Queens and South Ozone Park.The racino, along with officials from around the
  
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• Queens’ taekwondo champs

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Team Wolfpack, the Olympic fighting squad of the New York Black Belt Center — which has locations in Bayside and Corona — represented New York at the 2017 USA National Taekwondo Championship in Detroi
  
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• Queens men plead to ATM skimming rap

  20-07-2017 16:30
  Four Queens men pleaded guilty in federal court last Thursday to participating in an ATM skimming scheme in New Jersey over the course of 14 months.According to federal authorities, Little Neck man Ma
  
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• Qns. Dems to rally the troops upstate

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Political scientists will spend years investigating the many reasons why popular vote winner Hillary Clinton managed to lose the all-important Electoral College — and the presidency — to outlandish bu
  
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• Pols urge Cuomo to sign lead paint bill

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Falling paint chips on the No. 7 line’s elevated tracks raised alarm in Queens after District 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades reported that they had a remarkably high lead presence
  
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• Plaza taking shape in Corona

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The new performing area at the Corona Plaza at 103rd Street has begun to take shape in concrete as the city continues to remake the area into what is planned as a gem for the neighborhood.When finishe
  
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• Pie in the sky is the limit at Jamaica Market

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The third annual Jamaica Market Baked Fruit Pie Contest brought culinary confection perfection to Downtown Jamaica on July 15.The only ground rule is that all must be created using fruit purchased at
  
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• Parks seeks restitution for two damaged trees

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The Parks Department has sent restitution letters to Fresh Meadows-based company Best Tree Service as well as to the owner of the property for damage to two city trees in front of 147-08 46 Ave., acco
  
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• Pan Am shelter’s new contract registered

  20-07-2017 16:30
  The Boulevard Family Residence homeless shelter in Elmhurst will be operational at least through June 2023.City Comptroller Scott Stringer registered a six-year contract extension between the Departme
  
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• O’Neill talks quality of life in Woodhaven

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  During a special town hall in Woodhaven Tuesday, Police Commissioner James O’Neill defended the use of civil court summonses for offenses such as public urination or drinking, saying the new system is
  
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• NYRA placing new course at Aqueduct

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Resorts World Casino is not the only South Queens venue undergoing changes.The racino’s next door neighbor, Aqueduct Race Track, is in the process of building a second turf course while at the same ti
  
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• NYCAR debates its tough quorum rule

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  To some of its members, the New York Community Aviation Roundtable’s quorum rule is just too high.Fifty percent plus one of the body’s delegates and citizen members must show up for there to be a vote
  
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• No trains to Manhattan from 75th Ave. in FoHi

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  If you’re looking to take the E or F train into Manhattan any time between now and early August, make sure you’re not wasting a Metrocard swipe at the 75th Avenue station in Forest Hills.There will be
  
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• MTA gave little train shutdown notice: civics

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Borough President Melinda Katz told MTA representatives at last week’s Borough Board meeting that she feared the ongoing weekend shutdowns of the E and F subway lines east of Forest Hills could bring
  
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• More ferries needed for Rockaway: Ulrich

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  It’s not that we’re gonna to need a bigger boat, according to Councilman Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), but more of them.The city ferry service, not even three months old, has become so popular in Rockaw
  
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• Mayor visits Jamaica small business dist.

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Mayor de Blasio took a brief tour of shops along Jamaica Avenue Wednesday evening after announcing two new initiatives he said will help storekeepers increase foot traffic and avoid fines.De Blasio, s
  
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• Mayor makes 116th Precinct site official

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Southeast Queens is finally and officially to receive its own police precinct — the 116th — on South Conduit Avenue in Rosedale, something activists, area residents and the community board have been a
  
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• Man cuffed, released over cut internet cable

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  After being arrested and then quickly released, a Wantagh, LI man is not facing any charges over the cutting of a fiber optic cable in late June that caused an internet outage. Around 60,000 Spectrum
  
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• Man arraigned over 2-fatality GCP crash

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Roselle, NJ resident Andrew Shakespeare, 33, was arraigned Monday night over his alleged role in a grotesque crash on the Grand Central Parkway last Sunday morning that killed two, a spokesman for Que
  
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• Liu slapped with $26K in fines

  20-07-2017 16:30
  Former Flushing City Councilman John Liu has been hit with $26,059 in Campaign Finance Board fines for violations made during his 2013 mayoral campaign.The election body announced the decision last Th
  
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• LIC getting its sea legs

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Construction of the new NYC Ferry station at 47th Road in Long Island City is well underway, with the first boats slated to cast off from the location in August.A pair of construction cranes located o
  
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• LGA college prez cheers AGs lawsuit

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The president of LaGuardia Community College, part of the CUNY system, on Monday cheered a lawsuit filed by New York’s and 17 other state’s attorneys general alleging U.S. Education Secretary Betsy De
  
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• Jax Hts. man allegedly sexually abused boy

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  After being arrested at Miami International Airport with a one-way ticket to Honduras, a Jackson Heights man has been charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy.Amin Laboriel, 37, faces up to 25
  
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• JAMS Festival: 21 years and counting

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The Jamaica Arts and Music Summer Festival is coming to town for its 21st year on Aug. 4 and 5.The celebration will stretch along Jamaica Avenue from 170th Street to Parsons Boulevard, with activities
  
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• Jackson Heights celebrates Chatpati Mela

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  “Chatpati Mela: Celebrating the South Asian Culture of Queens” brought almost 2,000 people out to 77th Street in Jackson Heights on July 15 to display and share the cultures of Bangladesh, India, Nepa
  
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• It’s basketball over futbol in Ridgewood

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Baseball, basketball and football dwarf soccer in terms of fans, the number of youth players and overall interest in most sections of the nation.That isn’t necessarily the case in communities like Rid
  
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• HBCOP’s support of Scala is ‘not allowed’

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The Howard Beach Citizens Safety Patrol posted on Facebook last Friday a message in support of City Council candidate Mike Scala, in apparent violation of the law prohibiting nonprofits from praising
  
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• Harkless is coming back to Queens

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Maurice Harkless made a name for himself in Queens — for three years at Forest Hills High School and then as a freshman at St. John’s University.Now, the NBA player is coming back to his home borough
  
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• Fourth suspect ID’d in Jamaica attack

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The NYPD has released the name of a fourth suspect in the July 11 gang sex attack against a woman who had just left church services in Jamaica.Isaiah Shorter, 20, was identified Monday morning by NYPD
  
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• Fire safety presentation in Howard Beach

  20-07-2017 16:30
  The New York Rising Community Reconstruction Program in Howard Beach will host a fire safety presentation on July 27 starting at 6:30 p.m.Jonah Cohen, chief of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire D
  
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• Expansion could help Queens realty: expert

  20-07-2017 16:30
  The expansion of Resorts World Casino New York City could see more people moving to the areas as they look to live where jobs are available, one real estate expert claims.“With people wanting to live
  
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• Drug bust in NYPD’s 105th

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  Narcotics officers from the NYPD’s 105th Precinct made an early-morning house call in Bellerose last Thursday, resulting in three arrests and the seizure of marijuana and cocaine.Police said the arres
  
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• Cuomo issues JFK redevelopment RFP

  20-07-2017 16:30
  The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday issued a request for proposals from engineering firms for preliminary engineering and design of the planned $10 billion redevelopment of John F
  
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• Cuomo earmarks $10M for Jamaica

  20-07-2017 16:30
  
  The continued effort to revitalize Jamaica as a hub for transportation, business, the arts and affordable living received a major boost last week when Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was in town to announce $10
  
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• Chanel Lewis to get psych exam

  20-07-2017 16:30
  The Brooklyn man accused of killing Howard Beach jogger Karina Vetrano last year will undergo a psychiatric exam, according to published reports.The Daily News reported last Thursday that East New Yor
  
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