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♻️Con Ed Renewable Energy Project Halfway Done In Queens+ Veterans Day

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Good morning, Queens! 😎

Happy Veterans Day and Happy 11/11! Make a wish...🤞I wish for today's top headlines...and wow! Here they are:

  • ♻️ Con Ed announced that it is halfway one with the Reliable Clean City project in Queens, a program that aims to help the city transition into renewable energy systems!
  • 🛳 Two ships carrying over 600 sailors, Marines, and Coast Guard have arrived in New York harbor to celebrate Veterans Day.
  • 👮 Three Rikers Island correction officers are facing federal fraud charges after they pretended to be sick for over a year and obtained their full salaries.

🌧 Tropical Rainstorm Nicole. High: 68 Low: 64.

Here are the top stories in Queens today:

1. Con Edison has announced that it is halfway done with the Reliable Clean City project in Queens, a program that adds transmission lines and substations that aim to help the city transition into renewable energy systems. The project is expected to be finished in spring 2023 and will create transmission lines that provide renewable energy to customers from Long Island City to Corona, as well as partially install six miles of underground cable ducts. The endeavor is part of Con Ed's goal to deliver 100 percent clean power by 2040 to its customers.

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2. Two ships carrying over 600 sailors, Marines, and Coast Guard have arrived in New York harbor to celebrate Veterans Day tomorrow, and to participate in memorial events through next week. The hundreds of servicemembers are in the city to attend the Veterans Day Parade, a wreath laying ceremony, the Giants salute to service game, and they will be volunteering at the New York State Veterans Home in Queens. The NY State Veterans Home is a 250-bed healthcare facility located in St. Albans, Queens, owned and operated by the New York State Department of Health for Veterans and their dependents.

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3. Three Rikers Island correction officers were arrested on federal fraud charges after they pretending to be sick for more than a year while still obtaining their full salaries, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday. Between 2021 and their Thursday arrests, Steven Cange, Monica Coaxum and Eduardo Trinidad allegedly faked illness by submitting false medical documentation. Cange, 49, claimed more than $160,000 in sick leave salary since March 2021, while Coaxum, 36, received more than $80,000 from March 2021 to May 2022, federal prosecutors said.

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4. 48-year-old Myron Dukes, who was found fatally shot in the head in the backseat of a Range Rover after it crashed in Queens on Wednesday, was a convicted murderer and amateur historian who self-published a book earlier this year. Dukes, who lived in Bridgeport, Conn., self-published a book on the JFK assassination earlier this year, claiming in the book to have eyewitness accounts of the Kennedy shooting that had not been heard by the Warren Commission. He also theorized that people with racist ideologies were encouraged by Kennedy's murder to assassinate Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy, Jr. In 1992, Dukes was convicted in a "harebrained robbery scheme" turned fatal, and served over 20 years in prison. While there, Dukes became a de facto jailhouse lawyer, filing court papers seeking to have his conviction tossed, and suing Greenhaven Correctional Facility for denying his bid for parole.

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🗞 Hungry for more news? 🍴Snack on these headlines:

  • New York's second-most powerful judge to step down (Queens Daily Eagle)
  • QNS Weekender: Five things to do in Queens (Queens Courier)
  • Two People in Custody After Teen Student Shot and Killed in Queens (NBC New York ; Patch)
  • 'It's Never Our Time': First-Time Home Buyers Face a Brutal Mark (The New York Times)
  • 'I'll have what she's having!' – a celebration of New York's Jewish delis (Jewish News)

🗓 To Do Today in Queens:

  • Open Adult Table Tennis (6 a.m.)
  • Park Picnic: Couple Date Night (Self-Guided) (7 a.m.)
  • Corona Greenmarket (8 a.m.)
  • Volunteer at 9 Million Reasons / Evangel Food Pantry (8:45 a.m.)
  • Tiny Tots! (11 a.m.)
  • Queens Farm Farmstand (11 a.m.)
  • Art: Mandala Painting (1 p.m.)
  • Crystal Wrapping with Crystallized Living (2 p.m.)
  • Detective Keith Williams After School Program (3 p.m.)
  • Illuminate the Farm (5 p.m.)
  • Veterans Day Celebration Event 2022 - Veterans Rebuilding Life® (6:30 p.m.)
  • I Hate Models, Shlømo, Kyruh - Knockdown Center (10 p.m.)

🗣 Queens Chatter:

  • 🎅Selfies with Santa? Count me in: "❄️ Mark your calendars and get tickets to this year's #QBGWinterWonder on Saturday & Sunday, 12/3 & 4,12 to 5pm. Discover the best of December with free live musical performances, a tree lighting, menorah display, selfies with Santa (donations welcome), holiday crafts, a tree tour, and storytime. Indulge in holiday shopping with sales at the QBG Store and support local businesses at the outdoor Holiday Market! Enjoy a selection of beverages at the Holiday Bar for purchase. On Sat, 12/3, see an ice sculpture in the making and on Sun, 12/4, see its final form on display!" (Queens Botanical Garden via Facebook)
  • ⚖️ Bayside Civic Association building a fairer Queens: "You learn by listening, and that was exactly the plan at last night's Northwest Bayside Civic Association meeting. Thank you to all our neighbors and community leaders for the chat about how we can build a stronger, fairer #Queens." (Queens Borough President Donovan Richards via Facebook)
  • Get ready for the holidays at the Queens Museum: "🎁 Get a head-start on your holiday shopping by visiting our gift shop during our Members Holiday Day! On Saturday 11/12, members get an extra 5% off their purchase, in addition to their existing membership discount.* Here's how it works:
    📌 If you have an Individual or Dual membership, you will receive a 15% discount off your entire purchase. 📌 If you have a Family or Exhibition Circle membership, you will receive a 20% discount off your entire purchase. 📌 To access this promotion in-store, give your name at the checkout desk. This promotion applies to new and existing members!" (Queens Museum via Facebook)
  • 🎟 Upcoming raffle at the Queens Economic Development Corporation: "🎉 Raffle update: we are extending the raffle deadline until December 19, 2022. Please follow the two steps here to enter. 1. Register for the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Program using this link: https://www.verizon.com/.../small-business-training.... (It takes 2 minutes to sign up). 2. Once registered, forward the confirmation email to raffle@queensny.org. Verizon's Small Business Digital Ready program has many free resources, including business workshops, coaching, and $10,000 grant opportunities. Thank you!" (Queens Economic Development Corporation via Facebook)

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— Emma Radu Fighera

About me: Emma Radu Fighera is a reporter born and raised in Queens, New York. She studied Literature and Studio Art at Hamilton College, where she helped run the only daily publication on campus, The Daily Bull newsletter. This past spring she earned her M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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