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“Auld Lang Syne” in Robert Burns’s handwriting
Happy New Year everyone. Let’s learn something “for the sake of old times.”
Politicians delay critical votes after an election: City Council actions on December 20, 2023
Passed Int 0586-2022 requiring the police dept to report on police-civilian investigative encounters. This bill would require the NYPD to provide quarterly reports detailing information on level one, two, and three investigative encounters between the police and civilians, including the race/ethnicity, age and gender of the civilian approached by the police, the factors that led…
Finalized Local Law 2019/97 rules
The rule was not revised to: remove the decarbonization plan pathway for good faith efforts; further restrict the use of Renewable Energy Credits; or extend the deadlines for compliance. The decarbonization plan requires work at the building level during the first compliance period. This pathway places building owners on a path to compliance by requiring…
MTA’s Proposed Final Queens Bus Plan
Published December 12, 2023. To be implemented in 2024.
Report on First Phase of the $35 million Queensway Metro Hub
Update: First draft proposed by the Parks Department and NYC EDC. $35 million was allocated by Mayor Eric Adams in September 2022. One year later, New York Economic Development Corporation (October 18, 2023) gave a status report before Queens Community Board 6 at Rego Park Community Center on October 17, 2023. Angie Espino, Senior Project…
Today is Trader Joe’s Opening in Forest Hills
Visit its newest location at 69-65 Yellowstone Boulevard, and enjoy steel drum music!
When will the Forest Hills Gardens open up Hawthorne Park?
Residents felt it has been closed long enough.
ConEd redid driveway cementing, but it leaks!
Con Edison moved electric meters from basement to outside on Groton Street, and paid for redoing the driveway. However, water leaks in basement where meter pipes are. Homeowner has not been able to get ConEd to respond and fix the leak.