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Queens

News

Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge returns for second season

By Bill Parry

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Jamaica

NYC Parks reopens Jamaica Playground to the community following $4.6 million reconstruction project

By Bill Parry

JFK

New construction support facility opens at JFK Airport in effort to reduce truck traffic in southeast Queens

By Bill Parry

Jamaica

News

Dept. of City Planning hosts first Jamaica Neighborhood Plan public meeting at York College

By Bill Parry

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NYC Parks completes $4.2 million waterfront recreational space in Broad Channel

By Bill Parry

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Jamaica

Southeast Queens leaders break ground on senior affordable housing project in Jamaica

By Bill Parry

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St. Albans

Southeast Queens’ Senior Appreciation Month kicks off, with events planned into October

By Bill Parry

Jerome Hardemaan Early Childhood Education Center Garden Ribbon Cutting

Former Rangers star Adam Graves helps open new garden at East Elmhurst childhood education center

By Bill Parry

Broad Channel

News

‘A beacon of enlightenment’: Broad Channel celebrates newly rebuilt P.S. 47 school that had been damaged during Superstorm Sandy

By Bill Parry

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Queens leaders, residents gather for 9/11 memorial in Bayside Hills

By Ethan Marshall and Paul Frangipane

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Arverne

Arverne street gets extreme makeover to absorb stormwater and tidal flooding from Jamaica Bay

By Bill Parry

concert

‘Queens Live!’ concert brings Reggae to Rockaway

By Gabriele Holtermann

Queens

The Lost Boyz homecoming headlines ‘Queens Live!’ free concert series to close out summer

By Bill Parry

Queens Museum

News

City announces $8.5 million investment for Queens Museum, additional funding for cultural institutions across borough

By Bill Parry

Far Rockaway LIRR

Southeast Queens leaders welcome new discounted LIRR fares for Far Rockaway residents

By Bill Parry

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Jamaica

City completes pedestrian safety improvements along Parsons Boulevard corridor in downtown Jamaica

By Bill Parry

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Queens borough president’s demographic report shows large number of first-time appointed community board members

By Carlotta Mohamed

Queens

Queens BP Richards accepting applications to serve on Community Education Councils

By Carlotta Mohamed

AMNY

New migrant mega-shelter coming to Creedmoor psych center in Queens despite protests of local pols: Mayor

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Eastern Queens elected officials, community leaders voice concerns over plans for migrant tent shelter at Creedmor campus

By Carlotta Mohamed

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Arverne

‘She gave everything she had’: Arverne street co-naming honors late local leader

By John Schilling

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Politics

Borough President Richards celebrates allocation of nearly $17 million to Queens parks and libraries in FY2023

By Michael Dorgan

Richmond Hill Shooting Vigil

Richmond Hill community gathers at emotional vigil for local man who was killed in shooting spree

By Anthony Medina

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Corona

Amazin’ Mets Foundation, NYC Parks celebrate newly renovated baseball field at Flushing Meadows Corona Park

By Ethan Marshall

More from Around New York

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber.

Op-Ed | It’s time to bring updated transit to Harlem

The Rainbow Flag and American Flag at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 13.

Rainbow Flag continues to fly at Stonewall National Monument after defiant re-raising ceremony

Assemblyman Steve Stern

Schneps Podcasts

A Conversation with Assemblyman Steve Stern of New York’s 10th District

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New York Family

NYC Revolutionary Trail Launches June 2026: A Free AR Walking Tour for Families