Category: Queens
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Park or Train? Queens Community Board 6 Votes, in Effect, for Both
Forest Hills and Rego Park’s board backed the first leg of the QueensWay park by 26 to 9, while asking the city and state to keep the rail option alive. Both camps called it a win, which in Queens politics is a kind of genius.
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Jackson Heights, Long Without a Pool, Gets $33.8 Million and a Former Pool Hall
The state’s $10 million grant pushes a Variety Boys & Girls Club center on 34th Avenue past the halfway mark of a $60 million goal. A casino developer bought the land. The governor, in the last weeks of her campaign, insists this is not a Rose Garden strategy.
