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People

City Council celebrates former Speaker Peter Vallone Sr.’s 85th birthday

By Jenna Bagcal

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Jackson Heights

City awards $19 million in census funds to community outreach programs, many in Queens

By Bill Parry

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Health

Flavored e-cigarettes now banned in New York City

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech

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MTA pledges more details on its capital plan — after it’s funded

By Vincent Barone

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Make it public: Williams presses for release of NYPD body cam footage

By Alex Mitchell

Kids & Education

City Council passes series of school diversity bills

By Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech

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Health

Get the lead out: City cracks down on the toxic element in schools, housing

By Alex Mitchell

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Laurelton

Donovan Richards officially launches campaign for Queens borough president

By Max Parrott

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Astoria

City announces $19 million investment to support community-based census education and organizing

By Bill Parry

Councilman Francisco Moya

Politics

City Council approves Moya’s bill combatting fear around food assistance programs in immigrant communities

By Max Parrott

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Politics

Former Queens state Senator Tony Avella will run for old City Council seat

By Jenna Bagcal

Bayside

Governor signs Bayside assemblyman’s bill criminalizing revenge porn in New York state

By Jenna Bagcal

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Whitestone

Whitestone’s Francis Lewis Park to get long-awaited makeover through $2 million in secured city funds

By Jenna Bagcal

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Auburndale

Northeast Queens councilman secures nearly $19 million in capital funding for District 19 schools, libraries and parks

By Jenna Bagcal

Councilman Donovan Richards

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Queens councilman pushes community land trust funding with an eye on Rockaway neighborhood

By Max Parrott

Astoria

Astoria Councilman continues Renewable Rikers rollout with package of bills

By Max Parrott

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Former Sheepshead Bay Councilman Lew Fidler dead at 62

By The Brooklyn Paper

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Bayside

Northeast Queens residents vote for education and NYPD cameras in fifth year of Vallone’s budgeting ballots

By Jenna Bagcal

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Auburndale

Twenty projects to improve northeast Queens area on Vallone’s 2019 participatory budget ballot

By Jenna Bagcal

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Queens lawmakers’ bill to strengthen lead laws in New York City clears the City Council

By Bill Parry

The 2018 street renaming for Maria Thomson in Woodhaven.

Astoria

Twenty streets across Queens renamed for innovators, trailblazers and others who made a difference

By Robert Pozarycki

Bayside

City Council unanimously passes Vallone’s bill allowing DOB to issue stop work orders to reckless developers

By Jenna Bagcal

News

Homeless shelters, a murder trial and Amazon HQ2 among five Queens stories to watch in 2019

By Bill Parry

Ozone Park

Ozone Park representative announces bid for public advocate seat

By Naeisha Rose

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