Nearly 70 percent of working age individuals with severe vision impairments lack full time employment, according to the National Federation of the Blind.
Read MorePeralta was the first Dominican-American elected to the New York Senate when he took office in 2010.
Read MoreJustin Lum allegedly supplied heroin that led to the death of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Patricia Collado, as well as his 24-year-old friend, Calvin Brown.
Read More“One high stakes test should not determine if a child goes to an elite high school or a mediocre one in his or her neighborhood.”
Read MorePeter Dass rose to prominence in Guyana by participating in Mohammad Rafi-styled singing competitions, winning one such contest in 1981.
Read MoreLess than one month out from the Queens District Attorney election, both Democratic nominee Melinda Katz and Republican nominee Joseph Murray do not have voter guides up on the New York City Campaign Finance Board website, which could pose a problem for voters looking to know more about the candidates.
Read More“Put them in a separate area away from society.”
Read More“I don’t think it would be helpful for the next DA or for me to stay around.”
Read More“They counted the votes in Florida after Bush v. Gore — and they should do it in Queens.”
Read MoreAnd for Queens residents facing serious charges (to whom he does not seem to want to grant the presumption of innocence), who are remanded by a judge, does he propose they are left on a toxic penal colony? There is nothing progressive about that.
Read More“I think your next campaign slogan has to be this: ‘We’ve got to start eating babies,’” a woman who claimed she was concerned about the climate crisis, told Ocasio-Cortez as she took questions from the audience in LeFrak City.
Read MoreElection Day will be on Nov. 5, where residents will be voting on offices like Queens District Attorney.
Read MoreThis fear of the “other” is what drives opponent’s motivations to block the shelter from opening. The truth is, we have homeless neighbors who come from our district, including those who have been displaced from homes in Glendale, Middle Village, Maspeth and Ridgewood.
Read MoreAn Ozone Park man was sentenced to 17 years in prison for raping a 40-year-old woman at gunpoint for several hours.
Read MoreThe Manhattan man who hurled homophobic insults and fractured a 20-year-old woman’s spine after seeing her kiss a female friend on the cheek on a Queens E train pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree assault as a hate crime.
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