More than 1,500 residents made their voices heard with participatory voting
By Kristen Guglielmo
City Councilmember Lynn Schulman (D-Forest Hills) on Monday announced the three participatory budgeting project winners in District 29, in which community members voted to decide how to allocate $1 million.
Voting was open to anyone 11 or older who works, lives or goes to school in the district, which achieved record turnout with 1,785 community members making their voices heard.
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By Anthony Medina
Council Member Lynn Schulman has announced Richmond Hill High School, P.S. 62Q Chester Park School and the NYPD as the winners of nearly half a million dollars each in capital funds for improvement projects through Participatory Budgeting.
Schulman, who represents Richmond Hill residents in the city council, announced the winners of the capital funds on Monday, May 20, and visited each of them to share her congratulations.
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By Michael Gannon
City Councilwoman Lynn Schulman, center, arrived in Forest Hills last week bearing gifts for the 112th Precinct — in this case two new patrol vehicles.
NYPD Assistant Chief Christine Bastedenbeck, left, the commanding officer of Patrol Borough Queens North, and Capt. David Cordano, the CO at the Austin Street station house, were there to accept the owner’s manuals.
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By Anthony Medina
A Community Board 9 monthly meeting on Tuesday, Apr. 9, turned into a night of recognition for one board member who has served on the board as a prime example of public servitude in its highest form for 50 years.
The Helen Marshall Cultural Center, inside of Queens Borough Hall, seated a gallery of local elected officials and representatives Tuesday night, with each holding certificates and special awards for Community Board 9 Member Sylvia Hack.
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By Ryan Schwach
Queens Community Board 9 honored member Sylvia Hack for half a century of community service on Tuesday night.
At Queens Borough Hall, board members and a host of Queens elected officials honored Hack, a Kew Gardens resident who has served the board since 1974.
Several elected officials attended to personally applaud Hack’s years of service to the community and the borough, including Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Councilmember Lynn Schulman, Assemblymember David Weprin and State Senator Leroy Comrie.
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By Anthony Medina
The City Council passed legislation introduced by Council Member Lynn Schulman last month, solidifying the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s HealthyNYC initiative to extend the life expectancy of New Yorkers to 83 years over the next six years.
Schulman, who serves as the Chair of the Committee of Health, continues to ensure city agencies stay true to their commitment to help improve the health of New York natives.
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By Ryan Schwach
In a rare show of unity, a bi-partisan group of city councilmembers, including several from Queens, penned a letter calling on the state to give the city more power to enforce illegal cannabis.
Last week, 29 councilmembers, including members from both the Progressive Caucus and right-leaning Common Sense Caucus, signed the letter addressed to state leaders looking for more local authority to pass regulations on closing down illegal cannabis shops, which number in the thousands.
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By Kristen Guglielmo
New plaques unveiled at A train station honor the neighborhood’s rich culture
Two plaques bearing the inscription “Welcome to Little Guyana” were unveiled last Friday at the Ozone Park-Lefferts Blvd. A Train station in South Richmond Hill, in tribute to the neighborhood’s vast Guyanese population and vibrant culture.
The initiative to install the plaques was spearheaded by the Richmond Hill-South Ozone Park Lions Club, who enlisted the support of state Sen.
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By Zinnia Maldonado
NEW YORK — With congestion pricing coming soon, some New York City Council members are looking for ways to help their residents deal with what is expected to become an exacerbated issue — parking.
“You have a lot of people that don’t obey the rules. They double park,” one driver said.
Councilmember Carmen de la Rosa and Councilmember Lynn Schulman are both proposing bills that would launch pilot programs in which select Upper Manhattan and Queens residents would register for parking permits, meaning less spots for commuters.
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By Tangerine Clarke
It was a crowning moment for Guyanese Americans on March 22, when the MTA unveiled the symbolic “Welcome to Little Guyana” plaque in the mezzanine at the Lefferts Boulevard A-train station in Richmond Hill, Queens.
The bustling city where the largest Guyanese population in New York city dwell, own small businesses, and showcase affluent Indo-Caribbean culture, in 2021, celebrated the co-naming of the same intersection of Lefferts Blvd./Liberty Avenue, Little Guyana, and further advocated for the subway signage.
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