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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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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