City aborts migrant tent shelter in Aqueduct (again)

 

 

Adamsville in Aqueduct is kiboshed. https://t.co/GCyyobMnxX

— JQ LLC (@ImpunityCity) July 18, 2023

 

 

So it turns out that Mayor Adams and his "team" considered using Aqueduct's parking lot for tent shelters before and decided to try again for some reason. It sure looks like this was a stunt pulled to make the civics look like a bunch of intolerant xenophobic racist NIMBY's. But that's hard to do when the officials and civic leaders against this plan and the president's and the city's failing policies on the migrant crisis have this much racial diversity.

Donovan Richards's Department Of Youth

 

 QNS

In an effort to get more young people involved in civics, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has created a new advisory panel known as the Youth and Young Adult Council to introduce the “youngest and fiercest” community advocates to both community service and organization.

Members of the advisory body will advocate concerns through means of community engagement by participating in one of two cohorts. The first will be made up of high school representatives between the ages of 13 and 17, while the second cohort will be comprised of young adults between the ages of 18 and 25.

“Our youth are the leaders of tomorrow, and as such, they deserve to have a seat at the table as well as opportunities to be civically engaged,” Richards said. “I’m thrilled to engage our younger community members in envisioning Queens’ future, and working together to create the blueprints to make that a reality.”

The young adults cohort will feature advisors, who are expected to have at least five years of experience working with youth, preferably in Queens. Advisors will be tasked with empowering participants to make independent decisions and will utilize their networks to introduce and connect participants with people and organizations that will further expand their vision and borough-wide initiatives.

The cohorts will meet monthly, and each will develop proposals to make Queens a more inclusive borough for young people. Each cohort will present its proposals to the borough president. Members of the council will serve for a year and applications will be open to new members at the end of each school year, but current members will not have to reapply until their terms are up.

Civics revolt against Steve Cohen's greenwashing casino scheme

 

QNS

 Civic leaders from northeast and central Queens have organized to oppose Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to build a casino or other commercial structures on 50 acres of public parkland surrounding Citi Field. Their opposition comes days before Cohen holds a “visioning session,” which is expected to draw hundreds to Citi Field on Jan. 7, just as the state’s Gaming Facilities Location Board announced they would begin accepting applications for three downstate casino licenses.

The civics have been coalescing against Cohen’s future plans since he made no mention of a casino and instead referred to an “entertainment” venue on “50 acres of vacant asphalt,” in a Dec. 19 press release announcing the visioning session.

“We believe that Steve Cohen is trying to create a perception of public support for a vague concept of an ‘entertainment venue’ — but that he may later misrepresent that as support for a casino to be built on the parkland,” Bayside community activist Jena Lanzetta said. “He’s soliciting public opinion, without disclosing that his plans impact public parkland, or that his true ambition is a casino. We will expose such deceptions every step of the way.”

City Council cronies form civic concern for "transportation equity" and are coming to your town

For Immediate Release: Friday, March 11, 2022

Contact: Vanessa Caesar | vcaesar@council.nyc.gov | (646) 941-3331

 

 

Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks-Powers Continues

Citywide Transportation Tours in Partnership with

Council Members Alexis Avilés and Lincoln Restler

 

(Queens, NY) - New York City Council Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, will tour New York City Council Districts 33 and 38. Majority Whip Brooks-Powers will embark on the fifth stop on a citywide transportation listening tour as a part of her First 100 Day Tour, meeting with elected officials and citywide stakeholders to better understand both infrastructure and transportation needs in communities across the city.

 

Majority Whip Brooks-Powers will first join Council Member Alexa Aviles will tour the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway intersection, plaguing trucking routes, and pedestrian crosswalks, ending at a last-mile facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn. During the tour in Council Member Lincoln Restler’s district, the Majority Whip will tour the district viewing dangerous pedestrian sites, local subway stations and will conduct tour partially via Citi Bike. 

 

Following tours in all 50 City Council districts, Majority Whip Brooks-Powers will conclude with listening sessions with each Borough Delegation. Listening sessions will be open to the public and take place virtually to discuss borough-wide issues regarding accessible transportation options, bus routes, train and commuter line rail issues, for-hire-vehicle rights and availability, as well as a myriad of issues affecting residents of the five boroughs.

 

WHO:           NYC Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks-Powers and

NYC City Council Members Alexis Avilés and Lincoln Restler

 

WHEN & LOCATIONS:     Friday, March 11, 2022

·         Stop #1 @ 8:15am: 4417 4th Avenue (Ground Floor), Brooklyn, NY 11220

·         Stop #2 @ 10:00am: Intersection of York Street and Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

 

Press is invited to attend

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Office of NYC Council Majority Whip Selvena N. Brooks-Powers

31st District, Queens

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Do I have to remind everyone that one of these council cronies, the notorious Linky Restler is wholly influenced and agency captured by the Transportation Alternatives non-profit lobby organization that are trying to usurp the streets from commuting by car? This guy is such a pawn for them that he's reduced himself to making ludicrous videos feigning to be scared of crossing a street.

 

 

Linky Restler is a parody of a city council official.

If only there was a Boy Scout around to help this dork cross the street https://t.co/kajldOFqLJ

— JQ LLC: The Impunity City (@ImpunityCity) March 9, 2022

Well except if you happen to work for app-hail car corporation that happens to be one of Transportation Alternatives biggest contributors. Because Council Member Brooks Powers is holding a massive job fair event "powered by Lyft" in Rockaway Beach to recruit new gig livery drivers, which will also be attended by other elected officials including the meddling shitlib self-promoting comptroller Brad Lander. '''

 

 

 

Oh, don't forget your fucking vax pass.

 

 

 

 

Donnie Richards brings civics to students

Queens Post 

 The Queens borough president has launched a new initiative to educate high schoolers about city government and the importance of civic engagement.

The borough president’s office is sending in staff into Queens high schools to teach students about the role city officials and elected leaders play in local government, as well as how city government can address quality-of-life issues.

The initiative, dubbed “Civics in the Classroom,” is being offered to one high school per week. The program kicked off this morning at Bayside High School.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards joined the school’s principal, Tracy Martinez, and hosted a discussion in front of hundreds of students about the importance of voting and getting involved in one’s community.

Richards said that while the younger generation is leading many political movements, there are many young people who are not engaged with or educated about their local government.

“The youngest among us are courageously leading nationwide movements around systemic discrimination, gun violence, voting rights, climate change and more, giving us all so much hope for the future of our society,” he said in a statement. “But there are still far too many young people who are unaware of their power or unsure of their place in our city,”

This was Curtis Sliwa's idea.