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Local lawmakers are doubling down on calls for the city to open permanent coronavirus vaccination sites in Northeast Queens. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
BAYSIDE, QUEENS Local lawmakers are doubling down on calls for the city to open permanent coronavirus vaccination sites in Northeast Queens to cater to the area s large senior population.
At a news conference Monday outside the Commonpoint Queens Sam Field Center in Little Neck, state and city politicians accused Mayor Bill de Blasio s administration of forgetting about Northeast Queens in its vaccination efforts.
There are no vaccination sites east of Union Street in Flushing or north of 82nd Road in Jamaica, even though Northeast Queens is home to a higher-than-average proportion of senior residents eligible to get vaccinated.
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Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is likely a lame duck and declined to prosecute Donald Trump’s children in 2012, but he may be the one person who can now hold the former president accountable for his actions. While an impeachment conviction seems unlikely in Washington, Vance’s office has been slowly gathering evidence in a criminal probe of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns. Vance’s prosecutors let slip in court papers they were examining possible tax, bank, and insurance fraud charges – which are not subject to a presidential pardon.
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As the leader of the nation’s largest public school system, Richard Carranza’s decisions affect the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of students and families in New York City. Yet despite some successes, such as student gains at resource-intensive community schools, Carranza has faced a fierce backlash on efforts to scrap exams to get into elite high schools and gifted and talented programs – and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has exerted control over local COVID-19 school shutdowns and reopenings.
3. Lester Young
Chancellor, New York State Board of Regents
Lester Young was unanimously elected by his fellow Regents this year to serve as the chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, the influential governmental body that sets educational policy and oversees the state Education Department. Young, who has some 50 years of experience positively transforming schools and pro