The embattled principal of P.S. 398Q in Jackson Heights announced on Friday she would step down, weeks after parents mounted a campaign for her ouster over her botched handling of an incident where a second-grader brought a knife to school allegedly with a plan to attack a fellow student. Erica Ureña-Thus, founding principal of The […]
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Queens, L.I. Pols Gear Up for Special Election Fight After Santos Ousted
George Santos has officially been expelled from Congress — and local party officials in Queens and Nassau County are already hurrying to vet and get a candidate out the door to represent the swing district with a national spotlight. The race to replace him is imminent: State law requires the governor to declare a special […]
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Vendors Return to Corona Plaza — With Tough Competition for Just Over a Dozen Stalls
Aleyda Vivar woke up at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning to do something she hasn’t been able to for about four months: Gather up storage boxes full of blue-and-white ceramics, gabán ponchos, and other artisanal goods from her home state of Puebla, Mexico to sell at Corona Plaza in Queens. “We woke up, and we gave […]
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Who Wants Rep. George Santos’ Seat? A Candidate Guide
Rep. George Santos has “embellished” his resume, allegedly filed false campaign finance reports and improperly used campaign funds for OnlyFans and Botox. But one thing he won’t be doing is running next year to keep his seat in New York’s third congressional district — where 17 candidates have already filed to run for the swing-district vacancy […]
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LISTEN: What George Santos Sees in the Mirror
Mark Chiusano, author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, talks with guest host Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post about this character in the aftermath of the brutal new House ethics report about him. If you like what you’re hearing, please spread the word, rate us, […]
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George Santos Says He Won’t Seek Reelection After House Ethics Committee Finds Evidence of Crimes
Rep. George Santos has admitted to “embellishing” his resume. But according to the Department of Justice and, now, the House Ethics Committee, the embattled congressman’s lies went much further. In a damning 56-page report published Thursday, the bipartisan panel found “substantial evidence” that the Queens/Long Island congressman filed false or incomplete campaign finance and financial […]
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Principal ‘Covered Up’ After Second Grader Brought Knife to Target Classmate, Say Parents
Parents are calling for the ouster of the controversial principal of P.S. 398 in Queens, who did not inform them on the day that a student brought a kitchen knife to school and told other kids he intended to use it at lunchtime to attack a fellow second-grader he may have considered a romantic rival. […]
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Bronx GOP Council Win Adds Historic Note to Otherwise Quiet Election Night
Republicans in the City Council got a surprise win in Tuesday’s election, as a progressive Democrat in a politically mixed area of The Bronx couldn’t hang on to her Throggs Neck seat. Elsewhere in the city, Democrats appeared to hold on to competitive southern Brooklyn seats and exonerated Central Park Five activist Yusef Salaam sailed […]
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Mets Boss Pushes Casino Pitch for Queens Park Property
Mets owner Steve Cohen on Tuesday released more details about his plan to build a casino on the city-owned parking lot surrounding Citi Field, although he still needs the state legislature to approve so-called park land alienation to start any construction. New Green Willets LLC, Cohen’s lobbying firm, has officially unveiled “Metropolitan Park,” an $8 […]
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5Pointz Artwork Lives on in Spooky Queens Afterlife, But Its Days Are Numbered
An aerosol-painted Addams Family stares blankly at a Long Island City parking lot. Next to it, a mural of the IT clown looms over pedestrians passing through on Vernon Boulevard. Further down that same dark green wall, a pumpkin patch sits on an illustrated graveyard where the names of graffiti artists who’d been part of […]