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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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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March 18, 2022: Fire Destroys Flushing Small Businesses, WABC 7
Five-Alarm Fire Leads to Severe Damage, QNS
Flushing Fire Leaves Building Unstable, Queens Chronicle
A 5-alarm fire generated billows of thick black smoke as the flames gutted a building where more than 30 business kiosks operated.
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March 14, 2022: Two-year-old Attacked in Flushing, Queens Chronicle
Man Faces Felony Charges for Attacking Girl, QNS
A 2-year-old girl was assaulted by a 31-year-old man in Flushing on Friday morning, police said. After yelling at the child’s grandmother, the man flipped the stroller that Sophia, the toddler, was sitting in while her grandmother had stepped away to throw out garbage.
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March 14, 2022: PS177Q in Flushing Celebrates Opening of New Library, QNS
Councilwoman Sandra Ung, District 27 Superintendent Ketler Loussaint, Principal of P177Q Christopher Duffy and representatives from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA) were in attendance for the unveiling of The Robin Sue Ward School Library for Exceptional Children.
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March 14, 2022: Queens Lawmaker Urges DOT to Install Better Signage Along Busway, QNS Councilwoman Sandra Ung is urging the city Department of Transportation (DOT) to improve signage alerting motorists they are about to illegally enter the Flushing Main Street Busway. Ung sent a letter to DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez on Wednesday, March 9, about an issue that was brought to her attention regarding camera-enforced restrictions along the street.
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March 10, 2022: Queens Pols Angered by New HS Admissions Process, Queens Post
The Department of Education is pushing ahead with its controversial new admissions process for the city’s top high schools — angering some Queens officials as a result. “It is unfair to high-achieving students to be placed in one of four tiers and then be required to enter a lottery to get into the high school of their choice,” Flushing Council Member Sandra Ung said in a statement.
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March 10, 2022: Partial Reopening of Library Slated for April, Queens Chronicle
Flushing Branch to Open in Late April, QNS
Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis Walcott announced that the Flushing Library will partially reopen in April — he hoped before Easter — at a tour of the building with elected officials and press March 4.
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Council Member Sandra Ung sent a letter to Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez urging the agency to improve signage alerting motorists they are about to illegally enter the Flushing Main Street Busway.
The council member’s office was alerted that drivers have been receiving summonses, in some cases multiple times, for failing to turn off Main Street at 37th Avenue where the Busway begins.
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“When the point-based system was first announced, I expressed my displeasure early on with the Department of Education’s proposed changes to the high school admissions process,” said Council Member Sandra Ung. “It is unfair to high-achieving students to be placed in one of four tiers and then be required to enter a lottery to get into the high school of their choice.
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