March 31, 2022: Council Member Ung Calls for More Intake Shelters, Queens Chronicle
Councilmember Sandra Ung (D-Flushing) introduced a bill last Thursday that would require those boroughs lacking a family intake center — which homeless families are required to visit before being placed in a shelter — to each have one within the next two years.
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March 31, 2022: Editorial – Serving Needy Families, Queens Chronicle
Among the things they have to deal with is trekking up to the Bronx for intake into the shelter system. Across the entire city, there is only one place for families with children who need shelter to go through the required intake process.
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March 29, 2022: The Real Cost of Poor Pay, Union Built Matters
Council member Sandra Ung, who represents the city’s 20th district, described how difficult it is for immigrant workers to join unions. “My district is majority Asian, and union membership among Chinese and Korean workers is one of the lowest among the city’s diverse communities—not just in the construction industry—but in all sectors of the workforce,” Ung said.
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March 24, 2022: Queens Cultural Spots Face Budget Cuts, Queens Chronicle
Mayor Adams’ proposed budget cuts could leave cultural institutions in Queens reeling if they were to go through, according to leaders of those organizations. Most of the institutions (Flushing Town Hall, Queens Botanical Garden, New York Hall of Science, Queens Theatre and Queens Museum of Art) fall within or near Councilwoman Sandra Ung’s (D-Flushing) district.
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March 23, 2022: Council Member Ung Looks for Answers About Flushing Shelter, Queens Daily Eagle
Council Member Calls for Affordable Housing at Site, Queens Post
A proposed temporary housing facility in Flushing is again facing questions this week after a Queens councilmember asked the city about alternative housing options at the site.
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March 23, 2022: City Looks to Help Struggling Business Owners After Queens Fire, NY1
After Fire, Businesses Try to Move Forward, Queens Chronicle
Flushing Organizations Sets Up Emergency Fund, QNS
Dozens of business owners gathered Tuesday mere blocks away from where a fire destroyed their livelihood.
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Council Member Sandra Ung received a firsthand look at a project to install a new elevator in the Flushing Library, as well as news that the library will reopen to the public in April.
Averaging approximately 6,000 visitors per day, one of the busiest library branches in the nation closed in March 2020 along with the rest of the city at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Council Member Sandra Ung on Tuesday evening hosted a Small Business Recovery Meeting for small business owners who were impacted by the five-alarm fire that tore through a downtown Flushing building last week.
“The road to recovery is going to be long and no one event is going to solve all of the issues facing these small business owners, but having all of these nonprofits and city agencies in one spot will hopefully jumpstart the process,” said Council Member Ung.
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Council Member Sandra Ung, Council Member Linda Lee, Council Member Julie Won and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards co-sponsored a vigil on Thursday evening at Borough Hall to mark the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings in March of 2021.
Attendees held white flowers in honor of the eight victims, which included six Asian women, who were killed.
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March 21, 2022: AG Recovers $130K for Flushing Superintendents, QNS
The operators of a Flushing co-op residential building have agreed to pay their workers in a settlement with New York State Attorney General Letitia James as part of her ongoing crackdown on wage theft. “Sanford Apt. Corp likely took advantage of a tight housing market and high rents in downtown Flushing to convince these two superintendents they should be satisfied with a rent-free apartment in exchange for their labor,” Councilwoman Sandra Ung said.
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