State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Congressmember Joseph Crowley, Assemblymembers Ed Braunstein, Phillip Goldfeder, Grace Meng, William Scarborough, Michael Simanowitz and David Weprin, Councilmembers James Gennaro and Dan Halloran, stood outside the United States Postal Service Queens Processing and Distribution Center in College Point on December 9 to protest its impending closure. They were joined by American Postal Workers Union Executive […]
St. Michael’s, U.S. Marines Gather Toys For Tots
On December 10, St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst hosted its second Toys for Tots program sponsored by the United States Marine Corp. Guests arrived with shopping bags filled with toys of all kinds and gathered in the warm atmosphere of the cemetery’s All Souls Chapel on Saturday afternoon where they were treated to cookies and traditional Christmas songs played […]
Astoria Park Performance Space Is Gift To Queens, City
For more than 30 years the Olympic size pool in Astoria Park, the only one of its size in Queens, has had an appendage that detracted from its overall beauty and usefulness. At the south end of the well maintained and well used swimming pool, three high diving boards reach into the sky over Astoria Park, in sad testament to […]
Letters to the Editor
End Bridge Toll Now A copy of this letter was received at the Gazette. December 5, 2011 The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo Governor of New York State State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 Dear Governor Cuomo, I am writing to you to advocate for the termination of the toll on the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge for residents of Queens. […]
Cut Capital Gains Tax, Create Jobs
BY ED COX, CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW YORK REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEELast week, Governor Andrew Cuomo, in the midst of developing an economic growth plan and staring at surprise budget gaps of $350 million this fiscal year and $3.5 billion next year, told the Post that “some people on the tax code say you should increase taxes; some people say you should decrease taxes. We’re open to all the best thinking.” […]
Schumer Bill: Price Gouging Short Supply Rx Drugs A Fed Crime
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is filing legislation that would make it a federal crime to engage in prescription drug price gouging when drugs are in short supply. The proposed bill, known as the Protecting Patients and Hospitals From Price Gouging Act, would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute price gougers and crackdown on unscrupulous drug distributors that […]
Heating Oil Phase-Out Will Reduce Pollution, Asthma
New regulations ending the use of Nos. 4 and 6 heating oil over the next 20 years will reduce fine particles in New York City air from all sources by five percent. In addition, the city Department of Health estimates some 200 deaths, 100 hospitalizations and 300 emergency room visits for diseases caused by air pollution each year could be […]
Schumer: 3,400 NYers Owed IRS Refunds
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says 3,400 taxpayers, 1,026 in Queens, who listed their wrong addresses on income tax returns are owed refunds. The senator has set up a new page on his Web site, he said, which anyone who thinks they might have a refund owed to them, can check out. The Web connection is schumer.senate.gov/Services for New Yorkers/tax_ time_ […]
Post Office Closings Could Cost Jobs, Delay Mail
Each day, more than seven million Americans visit the post office. But the volume of first class mail is declining and the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost $5.1 billion last year. On December 5 the USPS announced it will “move forward” with proposed service changes affecting next day delivery. Right now, more than 40 percent of first class mail […]
Show Of Opposition To NYCHA Apartment Downsizing
Assemblymembers Michael Simanowitz and Grace Meng, state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Councilmembers James Gennaro and Karen Koslowitz, and other Queens elected officials stood united with elderly residents of Pomonok Houses in protest of the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) policy that they must give up the apartments they have lived in for decades for smaller units. Seniors who are […]