Central/Mid Queens News

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The New York City Campaign Finance Board asks New Yorkers and interested organizations to submit "pro" or "con" statements on the five proposed City Charter amendments that will appear on the ballot citywide on November 5. Statements submitted by October 4 will be published in the city's official online Voter Guide.  

The city’s attack on chronic flooding in Southeast Queens has reached into two more neighborhoods with the start of a two-year, $24 million contract for projects in Hollis and Queens Village.

The projects are a continuation of a $1.9 billion program promised by Mayor de Blasio shortly after he took office in 2014.

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If one works at or patronizes a business on Queens Boulevard between 61st and 64th streets on the Maspeth-Woodside border, you might say the nearby parking is inconvenient.

A curbside section of 61st Street south of the boulevard is reserved for delivery trucks from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. The full block between 61st and 64th is a no-standing zone including a city bus stop. Turn southbound onto 64th and there are spaces clearly marked with a large sign for firefighters assigned to FDNY’s Rescue Co. 4 and Engine Co. 292, a half block to the east on the boulevard.

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It’s a purr-oblem.

Peter Kaufman of 183rd Street in Fresh Meadows has absolutely had it with feral cats in the neighborhood using his yard as a bathroom and killing his grass.

The NYPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying and locating a man wanted for a saucy robbery from a Jackson Heights grocery store on July 20.

Police in the 115th Precinct said the incident took place at approximately 11:30 a.m. when a man entered the basement of Food Universe at 75-55 31 Avenue.

A Maspeth-based company cheated 499 workers out of overtime pay and wages owed and reported fraudulent financial information to the state, resulting in the return of approximately $6 million to welders and iron workers — the largest single wage recovery in the state Department of Labor’s 115-year history, the governor announced last week.

A joint investigation with the Department of Labor and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Construction Fraud Task Force revealed that from November 2013 until December 2017, AGL Industries committed fraud, and when workers brought concerns about underpayment to the company, they were told there was nothing they could to receive the wages.

To reduce mosquito activity and the risk of West Nile virus, the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will conduct its fourth adulticide treatment of the season.

Trucks will spray pesticides in sections of Queens on Thursday, Aug. 22 from 8:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following morning in parts of Fresh Meadows, Hollis Hills, Holliswood, Blissville, Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village and West Maspeth.

It’s hard to believe that my son is about to start middle school. He’s excited about having his own locker and the robotics course he’ll be taking. He’s looking forward to meeting new classmates and having more independence at school.

Instead of the normal anxiety that comes when your child is starting a new school (and middle school, no less!), my husband and I are going into this new school year with deep pits in our stomachs. Our son has a great middle school, but our younger daughter’s education is threatened because Mayor de Blasio is refusing to provide a location for a second Success Academy middle school in Queens.