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Podiums from the television quiz show Jeopardy! (Shutterstock / Ryan J. Thompson)
DOUGLASTON, QUEENS Frank Spangenberg, a Douglaston police officer who made history in the 1990s competing on the TV game show Jeopardy! , filed to run for City Council in Northeast Queens, records show.
Spangenberg skyrocketed to fame in 1990, after he set the quiz show s all-time record for one-week winnings, according to news reports. At the time, Jeopardy! contestants could compete for no more than five days. Of all the contestants we ve had on Jeopardy, Frank is the one I am asked about most often, former host Alex Trebek, who died last year, told the New York Times in 1998.
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Local lawmakers are doubling down on calls for the city to open permanent coronavirus vaccination sites in Northeast Queens. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
BAYSIDE, QUEENS Local lawmakers are doubling down on calls for the city to open permanent coronavirus vaccination sites in Northeast Queens to cater to the area s large senior population.
At a news conference Monday outside the Commonpoint Queens Sam Field Center in Little Neck, state and city politicians accused Mayor Bill de Blasio s administration of forgetting about Northeast Queens in its vaccination efforts.
There are no vaccination sites east of Union Street in Flushing or north of 82nd Road in Jamaica, even though Northeast Queens is home to a higher-than-average proportion of senior residents eligible to get vaccinated.