Central/Mid Queens News

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The City Council voted Thursday to  "reshape our city " by closing Rikers Island and building four new jails, one in every borough except Staten Island. The vote was 36-13.

An MTA bus operator driving the Q8 route from Jamaica to East New York last week was assaulted by an irate passenger who struck him with an umbrella.

Two large swathes of Willets Point land are being eyed for temporary Citi Field parking spaces, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

That’s because construction of the proposed $2.05 billion AirTrain linking LaGuardia Airport to the area will require staging areas be placed in Citi Field parking lots, the agency said. The work is expected to mostly affect the Southfield lot, which sits south of Roosevelt Avenue. The Willets Point sections in question would be used for replacement parking.

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Days before the City Council is scheduled to cast a crucial vote on the mayor’s plan to build four new jailsÇ including one in Kew Gardens, the administration agreed to shave down their size — a last-minute revision that appeared to cinch passage of the controversial proposal.

A roll call vote in the City Council scheduled for today, Oct. 17, is the final step before mayoral approval of the plan.

In the 10th suicide by an NYPD officer this year, Sgt. Linhong Li shot himself while off-duty in his Fresh Meadows home on Tuesday night.

His wife found him in their home around 9:30 p.m., according the Daily News. Emergency responders brought him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

As president of the Eastern Queens Alliance, Barbara Brown appreciates the potential economic advantages that could be awaiting surrounding communities with the planned $13 billion rebuild of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

But she said when it comes to the possible exacerbation of already worrisome environmental concerns for people in communities surrounding JFK, the time has come to fight fire with fire — or, more accurately, noise with noise.

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The death of one Anable Basin mega-project led to the birth of another one.

It’s a story that begins a few months after Amazon ditched Long Island City earlier this year. That’s when the City Council and the de Blasio administration approached TF Cornerstone, Simon Baron Development, L&L MAG and Plaxall, four companies that hold land in and around the waterfront site where the online retail behemoth planned to set up its complex. The conversations centered around the idea of taking a unified approach to developing the 28-acre space.

When the diagnosis is breast cancer, a woman’s husband or intimate partner is directly affected, and can be crucial during times of treatment and recovery.

“It’s an ultimate ‘in sickness and in health’ situation,” said Dr. Jane Carleton, associate chief of Clinical Affairs at Northwell Health’s Monter Cancer Center.