A Community Board 9 monthly meeting on Tuesday, Apr. 9, turned into a night of recognition for one board member who has served on the board as a prime example
MOMI AWARDS IN SHULMAN’S NAME: This May, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) inaugurates a special event honoring business innovators and leaders in Queens. The 2023 Claire Shulman Awards will be held on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. at MOMI’s Redstone Theater. At 6:30 p.m., the program in the Redstone Theater will
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More than a year ago, New York City embarked on one of its most ambitious infrastructure projects in memory: spending $8.7 billion to build four high-rise jails across four boroughs, so that it could close its eight-decade-old jail complex on Rikers Island a “penal colony,” in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s phrase by 2026. Much has changed since this heady 2019 announcement. Covid-19 has decimated the city’s budget. One of three community lawsuits against the four jails has met with initial success. A rise in crime is a reminder that it will be difficult to keep inmate numbers below the four neighborhood jails’ far lower capacity. Even before the city breaks ground, the jails projects are already two years late, with the completion date pushed to 2028, well into the next mayor’s potential second term.