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Department of Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Gregg Bishop will be the guest speaker at Queens College’s Business Forum Breakfast on Friday, June 15.
His speech will address economic sustainability and mobility for small businesses in the borough.
The forum will run from 8 to 10 a.m. at the fourth floor of the Student Union. Of course, it includes a hearty breakfast!
The event is free and open to the public.
As part of the borough president’s “Know Your Rights Week: Immigrants,” the MinKwon Center for Community Action in Flushing is hosting a clinic for DACA.
DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields undocumented young people from deportation. Right now, the Obama-era policy is stuck in legal limbo, and in need of a legislative fix.
That puts many DACA recipients and other undocumented immigrants in a state of confusion. Minkwon is offering free and safe legal services on a case-by-case basis to help residents figure out their own path forward.
Make an appointment and drop by Minkwon Center, located at 136-19 41st Avenue, on Wednesday, June 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
And the following day, from 4 to 9 p.m., legal and social services organizations are hosting an Immigration Resource Fair at Queens Center Mall. Stop by for assistance there as well.
Volunteer ambulance corps are always in need of more resources, and thanks to a local pol, the Whitestone community is getting a new ambulance.
Assemblyman Edward Braunstein’s $125,000 grant will allow the Whitestone Community Volunteer Ambulance Service to obtain a new vehicle.
That means the residents of Whitestone will receive even faster aid when needed.
Head to Flushing Town Hall this Friday for a presentation of Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts: Red Baraat at 8 p.m.
This Brooklyn-based band combines rock, jazz and funk with scorching bhangra for a pulse-quickening experience.
Online RSVP for this free performance of Red Baraat is closed but Flushing Town Hall will have a stand-by line at the door. If they have any tickets not picked up by 7:15 p.m., they will give those tickets to people on the stand-by line on a first-come, first-served basis.
Red Baraat will be releasing a new album, Sound The People, on June 29.
Students and community members near JHS 189 in Flushing finally have their new playground.
The state-of-the-art, $1 million green space will serve 36,000 residents within a 10-minute walk. It includes an artificial turf field, running track, green roof gazebo, outdoor classroom, garden, bleachers, benches and a handball wall.
Green features include bioswales, trees and garden areas that will absorb 700,000 gallons of stormwater per year.
The park is open to the community after school hours and on the weekends.
This afternoon, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic is hosting her sixth annual Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month celebration at Townsend Harris High School.
This year, the following community leaders will be honored:
The celebration will include a discussion between Assemblywoman Rozic and Mrs. World 2018 and attorney Alice Lee Giannetta. Both are alumni of Townsend Harris HS.
It will also feature student performances and an award cermeony.
The event will run from noon t0 1:30 p.m. at Townsend Harris HS (149-11 Melbourne Avenue).
Local veteran Jason Kaatz has been inducted into the New York State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame.
Kaatz joined the U.S. Army in 1964, serving in Vietnam from November 1964 to December 1967 in the following:
While in Vietnam, he was also assigned to the following:
Kaatz was honorable discharged in March 1970. He is a highly-decorated veteran, with medals including the Vietnam Service Medal with three battle stars, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with 50 Devices, Aircraft Crewman Badge, Good Conduct Medal and the Meritorious Service Award.
Upon his return, Kaatz served on the national executive committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, as the Queens County Commander and commander of the Bell-Oak Post 648.
A commercial condo unit at 38-25 Main Street in Downtown Flushing is asking for $6.8 million, according to real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield.
Unit #3G is a 6,817-square-foot space that is currently leased to a shared workspace company until 2020. It sits inside the Queens Crossing Building, which also houses tenants like Paris Baguette, New Mulan Seafood Restaurant and TD Bank.
The property is just blocks from the 7 train station, LIRR station and multiple bus lines.
“This Flushing section of Main Street is one of the highest-paying retail and office corridors in all of Queens, where retail rents routinely exceed $150 per square foot and office rates can reach $60+ per square foot,” said Thomas Donovan of Cushman & Wakefield. “This is a rare opportunity as comparable condominiums of this space are limited.”
St. Francis Prep senior Mofan Chen has won Congresswoman Grace Meng’s annual congressional art contest.
Chen won with his acrylic drawing entitled, “Facing the World.”
In June, his artwork, along with other winning pieces from other congressional art contests, will be displayed for one year at the Cannon Tunnel in the U.S. Capitol.
Chen will also have a free trip to Washington D.C. to join Meng for the opening ceremonies of the national art competition in June.
He will be eligible for a scholarship for the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Chen hopes to major in art and design in college.
The second and third place winners of the competition will also have their artwork displayed, but inside Meng’s congressional offices. The winners are:
Thanks to a donation from the W.P. Carey Foundation, NewYork-Presbyterian now has three mobile stroke treatment units.
What are these units exactly? They’re essentially emergency vans that are equipped with the medicine and equipment needed to treat strokes on the spot.
They’ll also carry two paramedics, a computer tomography technologist and a registered nurse on the van. The unit will have the technology to video-conference in a neurologist, who can recommend and assess the situation.
Why is that important? Every second counts for someone going through a stroke. It can take a matter of minutes before the patient loses functions in parts of their body.
As we well know, it can even lead to death.
The three mobile units will be used in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, around each of NewYork-Presbyterian’s hospital sites.
Since the unit’s launch in Manhattan in 2016, doctors have already seen a 40-minute drop in treatment time.
That’s the difference between life or death for a stroke patient.
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