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Jackson Heights

Rookie Jackson Heights senator joins veteran assemblywoman in getting farmworker’s rights bill into endzone

By Bill Parry

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Vallone full steam ahead on northeast Queens ferries, calls for director of citywide ferry operations

By Jenna Bagcal

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Long Island City

Long Island City fundraiser, under Trump countdown clock, benefits families separated at border

By Bill Parry

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Senate unanimously passes legislation protecting discrimination against religious attire in the workplace

By Jenna Bagcal

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Ridgewood

Ridgewood tenants plan weekend march against landlord over ‘predatory’ violations

By Mark Hallum

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Jamaica

Queens senator talks about the potential local impacts of legalizing recreational marijuana

By Emily Davenport

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Jamaica

Schumer wants federal funding to crackdown on Chinese fentanyl traffickers using JFK mail facility in Queens

By Bill Parry

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Long Island City

‘The aspirational lights are here in Queens’: optimism spreads at affordable housing groundbreaking

By Mark Hallum

Bayside

‘We don’t know who else is in there’: Bayside lawmakers blast state for housing violent sex offenders at motel

By Carlotta Mohamed

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Corona

Perception vs. reality: Study finds western Queens street vendors and storefronts work well together

By Mark Hallum

DA roundup: Lancman rails against Albany’s failure to fully end cash bail in state budget

By Bill Parry

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Bayside

Northeast Queens lawmakers announce upcoming transit improvements for outer-borough commuters

By Carlotta Mohamed

Queens electeds split on mayor’s plan to bring jail to Kew Gardens

Protest against the Kew Gardens jail proposal to take place in coming days

By Mark Hallum

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Astoria

Make the Road Action, VOCAL-NYC, backs Tiffany Cabán in race for Queens district attorney

By Bill Parry

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Ozone Park

‘Steven Banks must go’: Queens lawmaker petitions for city’s homeless services boss to be fired

By Mark Hallum

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Glendale

City to present plans for new entrance to Forest Park off Myrtle Avenue in Glendale

By Mark Hallum

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Bayside

Whitestone and Bayside among the neighborhoods to get relief following extension of alternative North Shore Helicopter route

By Jenna Bagcal

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Rockaway Beach restoration is under way after popular stretch was closed last summer

By Bill Parry

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Advocates call on Mayor de Blasio to complete Queens Boulevard bike lanes in Forest Hills

By Mark Hallum

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Politics

Congestion pricing just one of the many ways Queens residents will be impacted by new state budget

By Bill Parry

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With abandoned boats and trash ruining Jamaica Bay coast, Queens lawmakers seek new agency to clean up mess

By Mark Hallum

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Astoria

Council resolution would condemn Homeland Security threat to end Nepali temporary protective status

By Bill Parry

The factory at 78-16 Cooper Ave. in Glendale where rumors continue to fly about a homeless shelter being developed there.

Glendale

Glendale homeless shelter opponents gain support in Middle Village for upcoming protest amid rumors

By Mark Hallum

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‘When you scream, nothing gets done’: de Blasio, Koslowitz defend Kew Gardens jail at closed-door meeting

By Mark Hallum

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