(FLUSHING) Councilmember Sandra Ung joined NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and NYC Parks Queens Borough Commissioner Jackie Langsam to announce a total of $6 million in City Council funding to complete two sections of the Eastern Queens Greenway.
“We are fortunate in Eastern Queens to have a number of amazing parks, but in many places they are physically close but disconnected from one another,” said Councilmember Sandra Ung.
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During a joint hearing of the New York City Council’s committees on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management and Oversight and Investigations on Wednesday, committee members discussed a piece of legislation introduced by Councilmember Sandra Ung that would require the city to convene a task force to find potential sites for a bus depot in Flushing.
“We are lucky to have a transit-rich area in downtown Flushing, but that also brings with it a number of challenges,” said Councilmember Sandra Ung.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung was joined by State Senator John Liu, members of Community Board 7, community leaders, and friends and family of John Byas on Saturday for a ceremony to co-name the intersection of Colden Street and 45th Avenue in Flushing as “John Henry Byas, Sr. Way.”
“John Byas was a remarkable individual who left an indelible mark on the Flushing community for the four-plus decades that he called it home,” said Councilmember Sandra Ung.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung visited the 109th Precinct on Tuesday afternoon to present a check for $312,000 to commanding officer Deputy Inspector Louran Hall. The funding secured by the Councilmember in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget will go toward the purchase of new Argus surveillance cameras for the precinct.
“When I took office last year, the 109th Precinct was experiencing an alarming uptick in crime,” said Councilmember Sandra Ung.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung received a briefing from Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) representatives on efforts to better manage stormwater in the neighborhoods around Kissena Park during periods of intense rain.
Last month, Councilmember Sandra Ung spearheaded a letter that was sent to Mayor Eric Adams requesting the administration update elected officials on the efforts being made to mitigate flooding in the area.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung was joined by District 25 Superintendent Danielle Dimango, PS 244 Principal Robert Groff and members of his faculty, Leny Cordero of the Asian American Education Project, Maria Castaneda of 1199 SEIU, and representatives from the United Federation of Teachers to announce a new pilot program to add an AAPI history component to the curriculum at an elementary school in her district.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung joined Evelyn Yang, Christina Hsu and Dr. Richard Jacobs of Be The Match on Wednesday to announce details of a “Swab for Caryn” event that will take place on Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. in front of the entrance to Target on the fourth floor inside The Shops at SkyView.
Hsu’s sister Caryn has a rare form of leukemia and is need of a blood stem cell transplant.
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Councilmember Sandra Ung introduced legislation in the City Council that would create a task force to identify potential locations for a new bus depot in Flushing.
Flushing is the busiest bus-to-train transfer hub in the New York City Transit system. Approximately 20 MTA bus routes pass through or begin and end in downtown Flushing, in addition to the NICE buses that service areas of Nassau County.
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Following the city’s recent increased enforcement of the rules and regulations in the no-vending zone in downtown Flushing, Councilmember Sandra Ung met with representatives from the Street Vendor Project and local vendors on Wednesday afternoon in her District Office. After hearing interest from many constituents and vendors about the possibility of finding alternative sites for vending in Flushing, the Councilmember raised two proposals regarding potential locations that under the right circumstances could be suitable for general vending on a limited basis.
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(FLUSHING) Councilmember Sandra Ung thanked the Adams Administration and NYPD leadership for listening to her request to assign additional police officers to the 109th Precinct. The 109th Precinct received 12 new police officers at the end of 2022, and an additional 15 officers in February.
“While there has been an uptick in crime across the city, the surge in the 109th Precinct was particularly troubling given our large immigrant population and the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes,” said Councilmember Sandra Ung.
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