The prospect of new power plants in the Astoria-Long Island City area continues to rouse fear and anger in the community, as was evident at the Community Board 1 district cabinet meeting last week. District Manager George Delis noted that many elected officials as well as private citizens had rallied on Jan. 8th to protest the New York Power Authority putting in two 79.9-megawatt generators near the Queensborough Bridge. He asked freshman Assemblymember Michael Gianaris, who succeeded Denis Butler in representing the 36th Assembly District in Astoria and Long Island City after last November's elections, if a law aimed at preventing oversaturation of community facilities sponsored by state Senator Frank Padavan applied to power plants, but Gianaris replied that the bill applied only to mental health facilities. More...