To The Editor: I am writing in response to the Queens Gazette article regarding the problem of human trafficking (“Stamp Out Modern Slavery, Forced Prostitution,” August 30, 2006). In 2005, I introduced a bill (S.3914-B) to combat this very problem. My bill has passed, unanimously, in the Senate both in 2005 and in 2006. Regrettably, the Assembly has failed to […]
More On Stem Cells
To The Editor: Is his latest anti-Bush bloviation (8/24) (ostensibly about stem cell research, an important topic), Mr. Zack Pal once again shows us that nothing is beyond the pale in the pursuit of his prey: The President of the United States. In his latest contribution, for instance, Mr. Pal calls the president a vile name, a name which insults […]
What The WTC Health Report Means To You
Last week, The Mount Sinai Medical Center released the findings from the World Trade Center (WTC) Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, the largest multi-center clinical program providing medical screening examinations for the workers and volunteers who gave their service at Ground Zero following the attack. The report found that a high proportion of those examined became sick as a […]
Propose Woodside P.O. Be Renamed In Manton’s Honor
Thomas Manton, who passed away recently, would be honored and commemorated by having the Woodside branch of the Post Office renamed in his honor under legislation introduced by Congressmember Joseph Crowley and United States Senator Charles Schumer. The two New York lawmakers lauded Manton for his lengthy career as a Congressmember, City Councilmember, a New York City police officer and […]
Designs For Three WTC Towers Signal Rebuilding Efforts
Governor George Pataki, New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, World Trade Center Developer Larry A. Silverstein and architects Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki gathered at 7 World Trade Center last week to unveil designs for the three World Trade Center towers that will rise along the site’s eastern edge, forming what will be the heart […]
Con Ed Powers Up Northwest Queens Recovery Center
Con Ed crews are working overtime these days to make sure the lights stay on in Northwest Queens. Agency officials met with members of the local press last week to provide an update on renovations and restoration currently underway on the agency’s beleaguered Long Island City network. Con Edison Vice President of Electric Services Katherine Bowden said crews are reinforcing […]
PAPD Monument Dedicated At 9/11 Memorial Services
Services for the 76 New York City firefighters from Queens who perished in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were first held at St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst on a date near the second anniversary of the attacks in September 2002. This year, Edward Horn, cemetery director of community affairs, advised that on the fifth anniversary of […]
GCP Bridge Rehabs Begin
Last week the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) contractors will be milling, repairing, repaving and painting the bridge/overpass at 188th Street and the Grand Central Parkway (GCP). Most of the work will be done at night and detours, when necessary, will be posted. In 2007 the following bridges and/or overpasses will be rehabilitated: Midland Parkway, March 7, 168th […]
Liu, DCP Meeting On Queensboro Hill Rezone
City Councilmember John Liu and Department of the City Planning (DCP) will hold a meeting next Monday night on a revised proposal to rezone portions of the Queensboro Hill and Cedar Grove sections of Western Flushing. Liu said in a release announcing the meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Lang Auditorium of New York Hospital Queens, 56-45 Main St. at […]