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Fresh Meadows > News Maurice Jenkins (l. to r.), vice president of the TWU Local 100 station division; state Assemblyman David Weprin; and Mark A. Henry, vice president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1056 at a press conference in Jamaica Estates last week urge the MTA to reconsider a proposal to cut station agents. Photo by Anna Gustafson State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck), transportation employees and union officials urged the MTA at a news conference in Jamaica Estates last week to retain the hundreds of subway agents whose jobs are in danger of being cut.
Fresh Meadows resident George Itzhak has found his voice.
Opponents of the Flushing Commons project made one last call Saturday to the city to rethink the controversial development they claim will destroy surrounding small businesses. ADVERTISEMENT
Seven Jewish institutions in Queens at risk of being targets of terrorism will receive nearly $525,000 in U.S. Department of Homeland Security grants, U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Forest Hills) and a group of borough officials announced Monday at the Rego Park Jewish Center.
City Comptroller John Liu said his agency has issued recommendations to the MTA after an audit found transit officials have grown lax in maintenance and safety oversight of subway elevators and escalators.
The recent killings of children by caregivers in Queens and throughout the city prompted Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Hollis hip-hop artist Darryl McDaniels and a bevy of other officials to launch a citywide campaign in Forest Hills last week urging parents to be cautious about those looking after their little ones.
A bill sponsored by City Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) and slated to pass the Council Thursday is expected to reduce air pollution, promote the use of alternative fuels and create green jobs in the city, Gennaro and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week.
For more than a year, Green Shores NYC has been working to realize its vision of a connected waterfront along the East River from Bowery Bay to Newtown Creek, and last week the organization began to formulate that vision further with the public.
West Side Tennis Club members are expected to decide next month whether to sell the club’s stadium, an iconic structure that was home to the US Open for more than 60 years, but which has not been used for decades and which residents said is dilapidated.
The city Police Department has started tracking all parking and traffic tickets issued by police officers through scanners at precincts across the five boroughs in a bid to stop ticket fixing.
U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) has raised more than $839,000 for his re-election campaign this election cycle and spent more than $864,219, but he is in the green with $1.139 million in cash on hand.
Bob Turner, a Republican from Rockaway Point who is running for U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-Forest Hills) seat, has raised a little less than $40,000 and has given himself a little more than $50,000 in the last campaign filing period, according to his most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission.
First came the eliminated subway lines and diminished bus service, now it’s how much more money is it going to cost New York City’s straphanging millions with the arrival of 2011.
St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside is embarking on a $114 million expansion the facility said will move its patients into more modern quarters and cut down on their hospital stays.
Dogs made of bark that cannot bite have been popping up around Fort Totten to scare off gaggles of geese, but no city agency has yet to come forward to take credit for placing the pretend pooches at the historic fort.
A Pakistani immigrant was gunned down Sunday morning while working the night shift at a Flushing gas station that an assemblywoman said had been plagued by an increase in criminal activity. Surveillance tape captured two men robbing the store and shooting the station attendant.
With hundreds of thousands of travelers, airline workers and other visitors using John F. Kennedy International Airport every day, there are countless health risks faced by people at the airport, according to Dr. Manuel Ceja.
Work is expected to start in October on the long-delayed project to turn the James Farley Post Office on Manhattan’s West Side into a resplendent successor to Penn Station, the last stop for thousands of Long Island Railroad riders from Queens.
State Assemblyman David Weprin’s (D-Little Neck) vote to deny the city Police Department use of a stop-and-frisk database has come under fire from his primary opponent, Glen Oaks Village President Bob Friedrich, who said the law makes communities less safe.
As family and friends laid to rest EMT worker Jason Green, a 32-year-old Ravenswood resident who was shot and killed in front of a Manhattan nightclub, some friends took the time out to defend him Monday from the scandal that had plagued Green for the last eight months.
Gilmar Avila, a 6-year-old from Ozone Park darted through the pouring rain at the Jamaica Farmers’ Market last week to stand in line for the raw beet and apple salad about which he could not stop raving.
For many children, summer camp means playing ball or hiking through the woods on a sunny day, but for Green Girls, participants in a summer program for middle school girls through the City Parks Foundation’s Coastal Classroom, summer camp means seining the East River in Long Island City on a cloudy, drizzly day — and loving every minute of it.
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Previous Fresh Meadows HeadlinesJuly 29th, 2010 Weprin urges MTA not to fire subway station agentsState Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck), transportation employees and union officials urged the MTA at a news conference in Jamaica Estates last week to retain the hundreds of subway agents whose jobs are in danger of being cut.July 22nd, 2010 The Civic Scene: Do not favor charter schools or dismiss public educationIn 2009, the state Legislature permitted Mayor Michael Bloomberg to keep control of city public schools, but required the city to hold public hearings and provide information on the effect of any closings. A judge in state Supreme Court said this was not done and the state Appellate Court backed the lower court decision.Boro leaders gear up for electionsHotly contested campaigns with candidates vying for seats representing northeast Queens are gaining traction with the July 15 campaign finance filings.DOT irks Briarwood by repaving street linesWhen the city Department of Transportation began resurfacing some Briarwood streets just after the agency repainted crosswalk lines, area residents were surprised — but said they should have expected it.TLC makes ex-Q79 line part of group ride serviceThe defunct Q79 bus route that stretched from Little Neck to Floral Park will be included in the city Taxi and Limousine Commission’s livery van group ride program, thanks to City Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens), TLC Commissioner David Yassky announced.Livery service fills gap left by cutting Q74Borough residents who once rode the Q74, which ran from the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike subway station to Queens College before being axed by the MTA, will soon be able to use the group-ride livery van service unanimously approved by the city Taxi and Limousine Commission last week.July 15th, 2010 Liu given tour of center in Jamaica for disabledCity Comptroller John Liu toured the Queens Centers for Progress’ Children’s Center in Jamaica this week, getting a look at the workings of the 60-year-old institution that serves a couple thousand people of all ages with development disabilities.Briarwood opens up new senior housingElected officials and developers of an 80-unit senior housing complex cut the ribbon on the $16 million Briarwood facility Friday. |
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