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Thomas Maharis, 19, started at $25 an hour repairing airline cabins for Delta and could earn $35 an hour in a few years. Photo: Leslie Josephs/CNBC After graduating from Aviation High School in Queens, Thomas Maharis was hired as a $25-an-hour aircraft technician at nearby JFK Airport, reports Leslie Josephs at CNBC.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old who's never held elected office, ousted New York City Congressman Joe Crowley. Crowley had been considered a candidate to become House speaker if Democrats win the majority in November.
U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the most powerful Democrats in the House, has been defeated by his 28-year-old challenger, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in a shocking upset. Crowley had been considered a candidate to become the next House speaker if Democrats win the majority.
Tucked into President Trump's budget is funding to construct a cemetery in Queens for at least 50,000 veterans as part of a new effort to expand burial options in densely populated cities for families of service members. Unlike a traditional cemetery, the site in St. Albans would be an outdoor columbarium only for the cremated remains of New York City area service members and their spouses.
What do you get when you get when the Trump administration's notorious staffing problems meet its insufficient focus on the opioid epidemic? A 24-year-old former Trump campaign staffer serving in the second most important position in the Office of National Drug Control Policy , which coordinates the federal government's multi-billion dollar anti-drug efforts and President Trump's strategy to fight rampant opioid abuse. The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Taylor Weyeneth, who graduated from St. John's University in Queens in May 2016, was until recently second-in-command at ONDCP.
Lawmakers and Jewish groups have called on the White House to take action, in a race to have Jakiw Palij face justice. NEW YORK - The last surviving Nazi collaborator ordered to leave American soil lives in a redbrick Queens rowhouse on a bustling stretch of 89th Street, just around the corner from a Chipotle with a distant view of the Manhattan skyline.
The view down an alley off the Queens street where Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij lives in New York. Must credit: Photo by Celeste Sloman for The Washington Post The view down an alley off the Queens street where Nazi collaborator Jakiw Palij lives in New York.
The children's-book author visits the scale model of New York, which plays a starring role in his novel "Wonderstruck." In the Queens Museum, just past Arthur Ashe Stadium, there's a large, quiet room containing a 9,365-square-foot replica of New York City.
With primary elections out of the way, mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis is narrowing her focus on incumbent Mayor Bill de Blasio. The morning after the primary, which saw de Blasio capture nearly 75 percent of the vote, Malliotakis paid a visit to several senior centers in Queens.
The concentration inside Mendez Boxing is palpable. Everyone in the basement gym is focused on the task at hand: shadowboxing before a corner mirror or sparring in the ring.
In Brooklyn, acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez - who has the backing of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and much of the Democratic Party establishment - is facing six rivals with prosecutorial experience. Anne Swern, Patricia Gatling, Marc Fliedner, Ama Dwimoh and John Gangemi all have worked as prosecutors in the DA's office.
In an important act of civic mercy, masses of New Yorkers who more than a decade ago engaged in nonviolent misbehavior such as drinking alcohol in public, being in a park after dark or biking on the sidewalk - and have committed no crimes since - have just had those warrants shredded. The question henceforth is whether the civil penalties that have replaced criminal ones for such conduct will be enforced with sufficient zeal to stop lower-level disorder from flooding the city again.
The tenants of this apartment building on 42nd Ave. in Corona, Queens, were ordered to show proof of their immigration status or else face an eviction. A letter from a Queens landlord to tenants of a Corona building raises the threat of eviction to anyone who can't show they're in the U.S. legally.
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath that he had never had contact with the... While New York is a heavily Democratic state, the GOP has run the state Senate almost nonstop for decades. Democrats actually won a nominal 32-31 majority in 2016, but the eight-member Independent Democratic Conference continues to keep the Republican leadership in power, while a ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, outright caucuses with the GOP.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 30 -- Thousands of protesters rallied in front of the White House on Sunday while demonstrations continued across more than 30 American airports after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily barring all refugees and seven Mideast and North African countries' citizens from entry into the US. According to China's Xinhua news agency hundreds of protesters gathered Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to demonstrate against the ban.
President-elect Donald Trump has said on more than one occasion that his closest relationships are with his family. "I have a lot of good relationships.
New York City's Democratic activists are clamoring for Hillary Clinton to take on Mayor Bill de Blasio in a primary election this year, saying she'd represent the change the city needs, The New York Post reported Friday. "Hillary would have been the first female president," the Rev.
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