🌱 QueensWay Versus QueensLink Debacle + Calls For New Bayside Precinct

Good morning, Queens!☕️

• 🌳 v. 🚂 Some residents of the Rockaway peninsula are less than thrilled about the Adams
  administration’s decision to fund the QueensWay project -- they want a new subway instead.
• 🚨 Bayside lawmakers signed a letter Friday requesting that an additional police precinct be built to serve serves the Whitestone, Flushing, and Bay Terrace communities
• 🎟 More than 70 companies will attend an in-person job fair on Nov. 18 at Resorts World Casino NYC in South Ozone Park.

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Here are the top stories in Queens today:

1. Some residents of the Rockaway peninsula are less than thrilled about the Adams administration’s decision to fund the QueensWay project — a massive $35 million linear greenway and park — and say the city should instead extend a subway connection. Supporters of the QueensLink proposal gathered at a rally on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk on Sunday, Oct. 9, to advocate for the game-changing project that would extend the M train south from Rego Park along the abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch rail line and provide an additional line of subway service to the peninsula. Both QueensWay and QueensLink supporters each claim their cause is the true desire of community, but QueensLinkers argue their position is inherently a compromise, as their proposal also accommodates parkland.

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2. In reponse to what they call an alarming rise in crime, Bayside lawmakers signed a letter Friday requesting that NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell open a new precinct to serve Bay Terrace, College Point, and Whitestone. Through the first week of October, the NYPD’s 109th Precinct —which serves the Whitestone, Flushing, and Bay Terrace communities — saw crime spike 93 percent in comparison to the same week in 2021. The Queens elected officials proposed constructing the new precinct at the police academy in College Point.

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3. State Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. announced Friday that more than 70 companies will attend an in-person job fair he is hosting on Nov. 18 at Resorts World Casino NYC in South Ozone Park. This will be the first time the Forest Jills lawmaker has hosted the event since the pandemic began. A full list of companies attending the fair will be available at the Senator’s office a few days before the event, but some expected to be there include: NYC Health + Hospitals, Good Temps, U.S. Army, World Financial Group, Charter Spectrum, Con Edison, and NY Helmets to Hardhats.

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4. St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway will open its new state-of-the-art facility ambulatory pavilion this spring, and when it does, it will provide breast cancer patients with services such as medical oncology, infusion and endoscopy. Among residents of the Rockaway Penninsula, breast cancer is the leading cancer, and breast cancer rates in the Rockaways are higher than the overall female breast cancer rates in all of Queens. According to the DOE, breast cancer is the leading cause of premature death (before the age of 65) in the Rockaways. “Breast cancer awareness is vitally important to our community because with early detection we can cure most everyone,” said St. John’s breast surgeon Dr. Sharon Koehler.

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🗞 Hankering for more headlines? 👀 Look no further:

• One in custody after crash kills one, serious injures another on Long Island Expressway in Queens (AMNY)
• Stop & Shop Announces First Remodels in Queens (Patch)
• Newspaper boxes vandalized in Queens, NY with swastikas (The Jerusalem Post)
• After Paramedic’s Killing, Detectives and Neighbors Grasp for a Reason Why (The New York Times)
• Burglars steal $50k worth of jewelry, cash from Queens home (New York Daily News)

🗓 To Do Today in Queens:

• Elmhurst Greenmarket (8 a.m.)
• Queens Botanical Garden Free Admission Tuesdays (Winter Hours) (9 a.m.)
• Volunteer at 9 Million Reasons / Evangel Food Pantry (12 p.m.)
• Adult Open Badminton (12 p.m.)
• Volunteer at Queens Farm: Cultivator Crew (1 p.m.)
• Neighborhood Clothing Swap Event (5 p.m.)
• Zumba on the Waterfront (6 p.m.)
• NA Meeting (7:30 p.m.)

🗣 Queens Chatter:

• 🎗Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month!: "Nearly 300,000 Americans will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. That’s where Flowers of Hope NY and their incredible advocacy work comes in. Honored to participate in the group’s annual Breast Cancer Walk yesterday in Rosedale, as we mark #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth in #Queens." (Queens Borough President Donovan Richards via Facebook)
• 🍁 Happy Belated Indigenous People's Day: "Today is Indigenous People's Day, where we recognize the history and culture of the various Nations and Tribes of Indigenous People in the United States. As part of the Museum’s ongoing efforts to recognize, learn, and share the complex history of our site, we have developed a living Land Acknowledgement, which recognizes the First People of what is now Queens, specifically the Matinecock, Canarsie, Lekawe, and Munsee Lenape tribes whose homeland is in the unceded Flushing Bay area. We honor and pay respect to the past, present, and future generations of these tribes, as well as the interconnected Matouwac communities across the Greater Long Island region, who have and continue to preserve Indigenous culture and heritage on their ancestral lands. We also recognize the legacies of settler colonialism, in which Native communities were violently displaced by the United States, as well as the displacement of animal relatives and the disruption of natural ecosystems..." (Queens Museum via Facebook)
• 🧠 Happy Belated World Mental Health Day!: "On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we raise awareness about the services #NYC offers in times of mental health-related emergency. Your mental well-being is just as important as your physical well-being, and with resources like 988 and #NYCWell, you are not alone during your times of need." (Council Member Linda Lee via Twitter)
• 🎥 Upcoming exhibition at Museum of the Moving image: "Opening this SAT (10/15), NEW YORK POETS features a rare selection of works from prolific filmmakers Manfred Kirchheimer and Leo Hurwitz who documented NYC in the '60s, capturing visions of a now vanished city. Don't miss vital new series." (Museum of the Moving Image via Twitter)

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