Queens
How the Other Half Lives: The Case of Rent in Queens
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Across New York City, rents continue to rise each year. Over the course of the last 50 years, New York City has seen the cost of renting increase dramatically.
Activism
CUNY & SUNY Students call on lawmakers to invest in higher education
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On February 25, more than 400 students traveled to the New York State Senate in Albany for Higher Education Action Day to call upon state Legislature to fight for increased investment in higher education.
Environment
Coalition Against Poison Parks Releases Map of Where City Sprays Cancer-Causing Roundup
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Thanks to the work of activists concerned about the City's spraying of chemicals in New York City neighborhoods, now we know 2,000 locations where in 2014 the Department of Parks and Recreation sprayed glyphosate-containing herbicides, such as Roundup, many times without notifying the public.
Environment
Is It Possible to Save the Climate and Boost the Economy?
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A plan exists that will both preserve the climate and benefit the economy. Called Carbon Fee and Dividend, endorsed by bipartisan leaders, the plan features a fee, starting low and steadily rising, on fossil fuels, assessed where they enter the economy, at the well, mine, or border.
Arts & Culture
Arts Leaders Convene in Jamaica for Town Hall [with audio]
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Weary of already high rents and wary of the upwardly-trending Jamaica real estate market, artists, arts administrators and others gathered on Wednesday, January 13, for a discussion about what is needed for Jamaica artists to thrive in the rapidly changing neighborhood.
The Jamaica Arts Leaders Town Hall was a collaboration between the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), where the event was held. The forum was hosted by Molaundo Jones of QCA, who introduced panelists Cathy Hung, Executive Director of JCAL, Kendal Henry, Director of Percent for Art at the Department of Cultural Affairs and David Johnston, Executive Director of Exploring the Metropolis (EtM), the arts organization behind the Queens Workspace Initiative. Each answered questions posed by the Jamaica Arts Leaders program fellows. The current fellows are Stephanie Davis, Patricia Ghizamboule, Sol Gonzalez, Marvenia Knight, Rejin Leys, Okechukwu Ofiaeli, Dominique Sindayinganza, and Shenna Vaughn.
Op-Ed
Let’s look at what causes collisions on our streets
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In order to not become too anxious by the opposition of a small minority to the Woodhaven Select Bus Service plans, we are hoping to include in the conversation, a much needed look at what causes collisions on all of our roadways.
Activism
Ydanis Rodriguez – Ron McGuire Press Conference
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This recording captures most of what was said at Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez's Tuesday, January 5, 2016 press conference about the situation of Ron McGuire, a longtime legal advocate for student activists and journalists whose situation was described yesterday in the Queens Free Press.
Activism
Students Beat CUNY in Court. Now CUNY-educated Judge Punishes their Attorney
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New York City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez is one of 154 City University of New York alumni, faculty and community members calling on the federal appeals court in New York City to convene a rare special session of all thirteen judges to reverse a court order that devastated an elderly lawyer who represented Rodriguez and hundreds of other CUNY students.
Ron McGuire, Esq. is a 67-year-old attorney who represented Rodriguez decades ago, when the progressive City Council member from upper Manhattan was a City College student and community organizer. McGuire, who says he represented low income students for free "as a matter of principle," now is distraught and penniless, due to the unusual actions of a federal judge that some of McGuire's clients call "vindictive" and "chilling."
Letters to the Editor
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
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Do you know what a penpal is? Remember the term 'penpal'? Years ago in a New York City public school, my 4th grade teacher had our class exchange panpal letters with another local school. In high school my French teacher had our class write to French students in France. We even had to write in French and our penal had to answer in English.
Religion
Does A Turban Warrant Violence?
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There is an issue that should concern every turban-wearing man, their families, and their communities—a terror faced by American Sikhs.