The New York City Emergency Management Department is looking to train local volunteers for a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) that will assist first responders during disasters that affect Rockaway and neighboring areas in Southwestern Queens. “We’ve been trying for so long to get this team, and finally, persistence overcame resistance,” said Edwin Williams,
Angelica Shoenfeld was preparing for a career in academia when a chance meeting changed the course of her profession. The Ph.D. hopeful said she was researching a college thesis on recidivism among African American males when she met a former inmate who spoke openly about the social issues that affected him when he re-entered society.
While his Far Rockaway constituents have endured some of the longest commute times in the nation, Assemblyman Khaleel Anderson called on his colleagues in
Queens Community Board 9 tackled a packed agenda at their first meeting of the new year inside of the Helen Marshall Cultural Center at Queens Borough Hall on