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NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman, Council Speaker Corey Johnson, and fifteen other Council Members last night hosted a Diwali Celebration in Council Chambers that featured a lamp lighting ceremony, dance performances, and the presentation of proclamations to distinguished South Asian leaders.
Diwali, or Deepavali, has a deep significance to Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists.
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NEW YORK – Today the Kew Gardens Hills rezoning moved forward with a key hearing before the City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises. The proposed rezoning will allow affected homeowners to expand their homes as their families grow.
Formally applied for by Queens Community Board 8, the Kew Gardens Hills rezoning is supported by the Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association and is being shepherded through the City Council by Council Member Rory I.
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NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman and Assembly Member Daniel Rosenthal announced that the Board of Elections has officially designated P.S. 164 in Kew Gardens Hills as a poll site, and will be open for the June 2019 primary election.
P.S. 164 has not been used as a polling site since 2012 because the school was not in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
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NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman, chair of the Committee on the Justice System, today introduced legislation requiring the NYPD to submit quarterly reports on the clearance rates of index crimes broken down by precinct. The bill also requires the NYPD to continually update previous clearance reports to reflect any crimes in which arrests were made following original publication.
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NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman issued the following statement on the passing of Queens District Attorney Richard Brown:
“I am saddened to learn of Judge Brown’s passing. Judge Brown dedicated his life to public service, and he was deeply committed to the people of Queens. My thoughts are with Judge Brown’s family and friends at this difficult time.”
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Queens Sends More Pre-trial Misdemeanor Defendants to Rikers Island Than Any Other Borough, and More Defendants on Bail Less Than $1,000
New York Daily News: Queens leads the city in lockups for minor criminal infractions, city data shows
NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman, chair of the Committee on the Justice System, issued the following statement in response to new City data, required by Local Law 86 of 2015, showing that in the final six months of 2018, Queens sent more individuals awaiting trial on misdemeanor offenses to City jails than any other borough.
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NEW YORK – Council Member Rory I. Lancman issued the following statement after the so-called “Glendale Middle Village Coalition” protested outside the Long Island synagogue of Michael Wilner, the synagogue’s president, who owns property in Glendale that the Coalition demands be developed into a school, according to the Queens Courier.
“Protesting outside a person’s synagogue on the Sabbath because they might not develop their private property the way you want is a grotesque act of antisemitism and fully deserves our unqualified condemnation.
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KEW GARDENS HILLS – Assembly Member Daniel Rosenthal, Council Member Rory Lancman, and the Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) hosted an electronic waste recycling event at Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills earlier this week. Hundreds of Queens residents dropped off over 10,000 pounds of old electronics, including computers, televisions, printers, keyboards, and more, to be recycled.
The E-Waste Recycling event was organized in response to a 2015 New York State law, which prohibits electronic waste from being included with normal curbside collection.
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NEW YORK – The New York City Council today passed Council Member Lancman’s legislation, Intro. 944, to require the Department of Correction (DOC) to notify eligible incarcerated individuals and their legal representatives when such individuals are detained solely because of $1 bail, or a total bail amount lower than $10.
Lancman’s legislation mandates that DOC produce a list of incarcerated individuals who are held solely due to a bail amount lower than $10 once before noon and once after noon every day of the week.
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