Good morning, Queens! 😎
- 🌊 Queens’ low-lying neighborhoods like Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, and Broad Channel are now at the center of a historic $52 billion federal plan that would construct storm surge gates and seawalls to protect the Jamaica Bay region.
- 👎 Council Member Julie Won called a press conference Thursday to condemn the Long Island City shelter where an asylum seeker died by suicide last week, saying the city and the shelter’s nonprofit provider Samaritan Daytop Village bore responsibility for its woeful conditions
- 🚨 The New York City Emergency Management Department issued a travel advisory through Friday, Dec. 23.
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Here are the top stories today in Queens:
1. Queens’ low-lying neighborhoods like Howard Beach, Hamilton Beach, and Broad Channel are now at the center of a historic $52 billion federal plan that would construct storm surge gates and seawalls to protect the Jamaica Bay region. In Hamilton Beach, a middle-class neighborhood of roughly 27,000 people, which sits on the Jamaica Bay, residents are plagued by up to a foot of tidal flooding almost every month.“When I tell…
