Community News

Topics Addressed

• Firm & continued opposition to City of YES!/ ADU’s, Transit Oriented Development/retaining single family home zoning
• Original creators/sellers of Say No to City of Yes lawn signs (joined by 16 other community groups throughout Queens)

• Only civic with a 1-click email button to entire NYC Council opposing City of Yes on our website

• Opposed excessive airplane noise and pollution

• Owners/Squatters/Tenant’s rights

• Opposition to Queens Bus Network Redesign (Q31)

• Regulation of E-scooters

• Resolution 17 Introduced by Councilwoman Paladino into City Council as a direct result of a meeting President Jena Lanzetta held with her staff in August 2023 (calls on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to eliminate the continual use of LaGuardia Airport’s TNNIS flight path)

• Little Free Library reinstalled in PS 159 schoolyard

• New DSNY trash collection regulations

Meetings and Donations

• Guest speakers: Congressional Candidate T om Suozzi, Con Edison, Anthony Iuliano, Deputy Commissioner of
• Operations Community Affairs Unit Office of the Mayor, Senator John Liu, Paul DiBendetto, Chairman, CB 11,
• FDNY Fire Safety, NYPD
• LGA NY Community Aviation Roundtable (NYCAR)
• Propel EnergyNY — community concerns
• Co-hosted City of YES! emergency meeting
• Attendance at City of Yes Bayside rally
• Annual supporters of Thanksgiving Food Basket Drive
• Emergency Preparedness w/Ready NY
• FDNY Fire Safety Prevention
• Marine Toys for Tots Foundation toy drive
• Donation to OLBS Church
• Donation to Bay Community Volunteer Ambulance
• Donation to Queens Civic Congress: City of Yes fund