FYI - this is a letter sent to the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee's Chairman and Ranking Member about some requests for the FY2016 FAA Reauthorization Act that would help to mitigate some of the airplane noise in our communities. Signing for Nassau County were Congressman Steve Israel and Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. Queens was represented by Congresswoman Grace Meng and Congressman […] Read More
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BFHA Communications Chair Joe Brostek was honored as a member of his Queens College 60th Anniversary Class at the commencement on May 28th. […] Read More
Courtesy of Queens Quiet Skies: Dear Neighbors: Six QQS members went to the Jackson Heights Greenmarket on Sunday with our table and literature. In less than five hours, we signed up 196 new members of Queens Quiet Skies! We had people patiently waiting in line to sign up It was a wonderful result of hard […] Read More
Aviation Impact Reform (aiREFORM) Posted on May 15, 2015 It would be hard to find a community in the entire United States with more history than Flushing, just east of LaGuardia Airport in Queens, NY. It also would be hard to find a community more adversely impacted by FAA’s NextGen implementation. This Post will look […] Read More
Source: Queens Quiet Skies Newsletter From: queensquietskies (at) aol.com To: queensquietskies (at) aol.com Subject: QUEENS QUIET SKIES NEWS - MAY 5, 2015 Dear Neighbors – REP. MENG’S LETTER TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Airplane noise is more than simply an annoyance. It is a public health problem, as is air pollution from jet fuel. So […] Read More
Source: Queens Courier State Senator Tony Avella and residents of Broadway-Flushing are continuing the fight to have the neighborhood designated a landmark district. A previous attempt to get the neighborhood recognized by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) only resulted in an offer to designate a few homes with landmark status, a compromise which was not accepted by residents. The […] Read More
Source: Queens Tribune A homeowner has gone to court against a Homeowners’ Association over a stop work order on two houses he planned to build on a corner, a proposal that he was told violated covenant laws. Charles Chang already had the structure that stood at 35-05 163rd St. in Murray Hill demolished so he […] Read More
Source: Times Ledger Summer is coming. For northeast Queens residents, this used to mean enjoying time with family, playing sports, biking and walking near Kissena Park or Little Neck Bay. But for the past three years it has meant isolating oneself inside, jamming the windows shut and waiting for a reprieve from a new, low […] Read More
Queens Quiet Skies News - April 9, 2015: Hello to all – I have not sent out an email for quite a while. There is so much going on that it has seemed overwhelming to try to get it all written down and sent out at one time. Writing a QQS News email can take a […] Read More
