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About 50 to 60 community members rallied outside on the steps of Flushing Public Library on Friday, March 3, voicing their opposition to Mets owner Steve

People of color in Flushing are working to keep Flushing’s Black history alive – and working to keep the neighborhood’s history of community displacement from repeating itself.

MAYOR’S RE-ENVISIONED BQE CENTRAL: New York City Mayor Eric Adams marked a new phase on Dec. 13 in his effort to accelerate a long-term fix and redesign for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), unveiling preliminary design concepts for a re-envisioned BQE Central, the city-owned section of the BQE from Atlantic Avenue to Sands Street. The concepts

Community leaders on Tuesday, Dec. 13, announced the launch of an art exhibit at Flushing Town Hall that connects the signs of the Lunar New Year Zodiac with

A whistleblower filed two complaints with the Justice Department and the Treasury Department in recent months, alleging that Facebook parent company Meta willfully violated sanctions the government had placed on pro-Russian rebels, which allo

After closing near the start of the pandemic, the Flushing library has no heat — or reopening date.

SHARE: New York City voters’ first major tryout of ranked-choice voting may be over, but now the work of tallying votes – including absentee ballots still yet to be returned – begins. As of late Tuesday night, few of the more than 300 candidates in three dozen open City Council districts were decisively declaring victory or conceding defeat. While Council Members Carlina Rivera, Rafael Salamanca Jr. and Farah Louis were a few of the Democrats to face primaries as incumbents, those chall...

“Eric, the mayor likes Eric.”History may be kind to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

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SHARE: A group of seven Democratic candidates running for the New York City Council District 20 seat in Flushing, Queens, have come together to form a coalition against Queens Democratic Party-backed candidate Sandra Ung. The coalition includes Democrats across the ideological spectrum. There’s John Choe, a former chief of staff to state Sen. John Liu, who heads the Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce and was backed by the Working Families Party; Anthony Miranda, a retired NYPD sergeant who ...