Queens Borough President Melinda Katz presents the Only in Queens Summer Festival in partnership with New York City Parks Department, City Parks Foundation and SummerStage

This free festival begins at 2:00 pm with local musicians performing on the community stage, a scavenger hunt and tours of the New York State Pavilion. Roxanne Shanté, DJ Marley Marl, Main Source, Chloe x Halle and funk music legend George Clinton Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic will take over the main stage at 5:00 pm. This year […]

티타일 지역 – 2015년 여름 가을 뉴스레터

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"세계의 자치구"퀸즈에 드라이버를 환영 하는 새로운 도로 표지판을 가져옵니다.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Dalila Hall, the Queens Borough Commissioner of the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT), unveiled new “Welcome to Queens” signs recently installed along major thoroughfares entering the Borough of Queens, “The World’s Borough.” Each of the new signs bears the slogan “The World’s Borough,” a phrase coined by Borough President […]

THE WORLD’S FAIR ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE, LED BY BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ AND ASSEMBLY WOMAN MARKEY, AND NYC PARKS ANNOUNCE THE CLOSING CELEBRATION OF THIS YEAR’S WORLD’S FAIR ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

A six-month series of events to commemorate the World’s Fair anniversaries organized by the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee and NYC Parks will end with a concluding celebration on Sunday, October 19, that will feature a special free event: A World’s Fair Scavenger Hunt throughout Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The daylong October 19 celebration will kick-off […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ APPOINTS EARL G. SIMONS TO QUEENS LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is pleased to announce her appointment of Earl G. Simons to the Board of Trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library.  Mr. Simons is the Director of Government and Community Relations at York College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Mr. Simons is a member of the senior […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ TO HOST BUSINESS FORUMS FOR MILITARY VETERANS

On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will host the first in a series of Veterans Business Forum sessions that will be held at Queens Borough Hall. The sessions are sponsored by the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) in an effort to help our nation’s military veterans succeed in the business world. […]

7월 13일 공원에서 영화

1939년 세계 박람회를 기념하는 영화. 뉴욕 공원 부서는 111 번가 잔디 지역 (회전 목마와 모든 어린이를위한 놀이터 사이)에서 1939 고전 오즈의 마법사의 무료 야외 쇼를 제공합니다 오후 7시부터 오후 10시까지.

July 18 to 20 and July 25 to 27 World’s Fair Festivals

World’s Fair Festivals, 10 original, 10-minute plays inspired by the 1939 and 1964 World Fairs. Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave S, Queens, NY 11368. Queens Theatre has commissioned world-class playwrights Todd Almond, Deen, Kristopher Diaz, Craig Lucas, Wendy MacLeod, Harrison Rivers, Caridad Svich; multi-disciplinary composer and playwright Todd Almond; hot young artists Lauren Yee and […]

July 19 World’s Fair Brew Fest

World’s Fair Brew Fest, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-34 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355. Participants will sample beer and food from around the globe and enjoy music and craft vendors. Two tasting sessions: noon to 3 pm; and 4 pm to 7pm. Tickets required, must be 21 and over.

July Photo exhibit

Photo exhibit, Holiday Inn Long Island City/Manhattan View. 39-05 29th St, Long Island City, NY 11101.

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ THANKS THE MAYOR, THE SPEAKER AND THE CITY COUNCIL FOR ALLOCATING FUNDS TO BEGIN THE RESTORATION OF THE NEW YORK STATE PAVILION

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today commended Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the members of the City Council for agreeing to include more than $4.8 million for the restoration of the New York State Pavilion in the Capital Budget the City Council approved early this morning.     The funding from […]

QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT MELINDA KATZ IS GREATLY DISAPPOINTED THE FISCAL YEAR 2015 EXPENSE BUDGET ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL EARLY THIS MORNING DOES NOT INCLUDING FUNDING THAT FOR A PERMANENT ROCKAWAY FERRY SERVICE.

“The temporary Rockaway ferry now in operation has been a great boon for Rockaways residents seeking an easy commute to other parts of the City and for people from other parts of the City seeking to get to Rockaway Beach and its attractions,” Borough President Katz said. “In the short time since it was established […]

Saturday, August 2

Bringing the World to the Fair: The Port Authority’s Role — Trade, Travel and Tourism in Queens, the Region and the World, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-34 Main St., Flushing, NY 11355. The Port Authority of NY & NJ’s multi-media exhibit will be on view in the auditorium lobby through November 1, Tuesday through Sunday, 8 […]

QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ ALLOCATES $1.1 MILLION TO FUND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BOROUGH’S COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced the allocation of more than one million dollars in capital funds to pay for streetscape improvements along commercial corridors in several Queens neighborhoods.      The improvements are intended to enhance and revitalize commercial shopping districts in order to promote business development and investment in those areas and to […]

Wednesday, August 20

Movies in the Parks celebrates the 1964 World’s Fair. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. The NYC Parks Department hosts a free outdoor showing of the 1964 classic Mary Poppins at 111th Street Lawn area (between carousel and Playground for All Children) from 7 pm to 10pm.

Saturday – Sunday, September 20-21

New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St, Corona, NY 11368. The World Maker Faire returns to the New York Hall of Science for its fifth year, featuring more than 600 makers, inventors, artists and thinkers celebrating do-it-yourself creativity, innovation, and community.

Sunday, September 28

World’s Fair Lecture by Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky, Executive Director of the New Haven Museum, Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355, 2 pm, free with Queens Botanical Garden Admission.

Sunday, October 5

That Kodak Moment: Picturing the Fairs in 1939-40 and 1964-65, Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing, NY 11368. From Weegee to Margaret Bourke-White, professional photographers have long been entranced with the spectacle and allure of world’s fairs and expositions. The Eastman Kodak pavilion figured prominently in both fairs, making the science of picture-taking accessible […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ CO-HOSTS SUCCESSFUL WORLD’S FAIR ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, co-chair of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, helped preside over the well-attended World’s Fair Anniversary Festival held Sunday, May 18, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.        The free all-day event was held to commemorate the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1964 and 1939 World’s Fairs, which were held […]

QUEENS CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1964 WORLD’S FAIR WITH TOURS OF THE NEW YORK STATE PAVILION, AS IT IS DESIGNATED A “NATIONAL TREASURE”

Approximately 2,500 people visit Pavilion during celebration NYC Parks’ Queens Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski today joined Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, Assemblywoman Margaret Markey and National Trust for Historic Preservation board member Paul Goldberger to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the 1964-65 World’s Fair and announce that Flushing Meadows Corona Park’s New […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ TO HOST TAX LIEN ASSISTANCE SESSION AT BOROUGH HALL

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced she will be hosting a tax lien assistance session at Queens Borough Hall on Wednesday, April 9, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. to help property owners whose real estate properties are potentially subject to lien sales due to unpaid property taxes and other charges.      The City’s […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT MELINDA KATZ, ASSEMBLY MEMBER MARGARET MARKEY AND THE WORLD’S FAIR ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE ANNOUNCE SLATE OF EVENTS MARKING ANNIVERSARIES OF 1939 AND 1964 WORLD’S FAIRS

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and state Assembly Member Margaret Markey, the co-chairs of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, today unveiled the schedule for a six-month series of events to celebrate the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1964 and 1939 World’s Fairs, which were held in what is now Flushing Meadows Corona […]

MEDIA ADVISORY: BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ, ASSEMBLY MEMBER MARKEY AND THE WORLD’S FAIR ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING SLATE OF EVENTS MARKING ANNIVERSARIES OF 1939 AND 1964 WORLD’S FAIRS

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and state Assembly Member Margaret Markey, the co-chairs of the World’s Fair Anniversary Committee, will host a press conference on Friday, March 28 at 11:30 a.m. to announce the scheduling of a six-month series of events to celebrate the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1964 and 1939 World’s Fairs, […]

BOROUGH PRESIDENT KATZ APPOINTS CARL SELDIN KOERNER TO QUEENS LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today named Carl Seldin Koerner as her first appointee to the Queens Library’s Board of Trustees.      Mr. Koerner is Counsel at the law firm White and Williams, LLP and Partner at Koerner Kronenfeld Partners, LLC, a strategic planning and consulting firm. As one of nineteen members on the Queens […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 3 월 31 마감일 전에 의료 보험에 대한 퀸즈 주민을 가입엘머스트 병원과 협력

    Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will be hosting a health care seminar during which Queens residents can get help signing up for health insurance under Affordable Care Act.      A group of multi-lingual health care “navigators” will use their laptops to help seminar attendees register for health insurance online. Navigators fluent in Spanish, Chinese […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 그녀의 취임 아프리카 계 미국인 유산 달 행사에서 전 자치구 대통령 마샬 및 기타 수상자를 개최

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz hosted her first African American Heritage Month Event as Borough President on Tuesday, February 25 in Queens Borough Hall.     The highlight of the event was the awarding of Citations of Honor to four distinguished African Americans who were recognized for their outstanding achievements in public service, arts, culture and […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ 의장 퀸즈 자치구 위원회의 연례 예산 청문회 의자

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz chaired the Queens Borough Board’s annual budget hearing on Thursday, February 20, at Queens Borough Hall.      The hearing is an opportunity for local organizations to present their requests for City funding to the Borough Board.  The Board is comprised Borough President Katz, the City Council members representing Queens and […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 자메이카와 ELMHURST 병원과 팀을 이수하여 3월 31일 마감 전에 퀸즈 거주자를 건강 보험에 가입합니다.

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced she will be hosting two informational seminars in early March that will help Queens residents learn more about the benefits of the Affordable Care Act (the federal health care reform law commonly known as “ObamaCare”) and address their concerns about the Act. A multi-lingual group of […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 퀸즈 도서관 이사회가 기관의 거버넌스와 감독을 개선하기 위해 취해야 할 단계를 권장합니다.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced she has sent a letter to members of the Board of Trustees of the Queens Library that includes her recommendations about what steps they should take to improve the Library’s governance and oversight.      The Borough President sent the letter, dated February 18, after conducting a thorough review […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 그녀의 취임 그리스 독립 기념일 행사에서 그리스 계 미국인 커뮤니티를 경례

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz hosted her first Greek Independence Day Event as Borough President on Friday evening, March 14, in the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York Stathakion Center, located at 22-51 29th Street in Astoria.    State Senator Michael Gianaris, State Assembly member Aravella Simotas and City Council member Costa Constantinides […]

자치구 대통령 카츠는 교육 정책에 대한 패널에 여왕 REPRESENATIVE로 데보라 A. 딜링햄을 임명

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced she has appointed Deborah A. Dillingham of Forest Hills to be the Queens representative on the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP).      Ms. Dillingham has served the city’s educational system in several capacities, including as the Queens borough appointee to District 28’s Community Education Council, where […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 씨티 필드에서 곧 "서커스 뒤 솔레일"쇼에서 임시 위치를 채우기 위해 노력을 후원

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz is working in partnership with Adecco Staffing Company to fill about 200 temporary positions available at Cirque du Soleil’s performances of  “Amaluna,” a touring production that will appear at Citi Field this spring. The jobs will run from early March to mid-May and available positions include: ·         Ushers […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ 퀸즈 커뮤니티 보드에 가입 신청기한을 연장

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced she has extended the deadline for Queens residents to apply to join one of the borough’s 14 community boards, the neighborhood-level advisory bodies that provide a vital link between City government and the people it serves.      The deadline for applying to be a new or […]

자치구 회장 KATZ는 퀸즈 중소기업 소유자와 그녀의 "만남과 인사"동안 ECOMONIC 성장을 달성하기 위해 그녀의 비전을 촉진

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz shared her vision on how to promote economic growth in Queens before an audience of small business owners and economic development leaders who attended her “Queens Small Business Meet and Greet” this morning in Queens Borough Hall.      During the event, Katz announced she is forming an economic development advisory […]

자치구 대통령 카츠는 최대 22 주말에 대한 7 라인 서비스를 중단 MTA의 계획에 항의하는 의원 반 브라머의 집회에서 PARTCIPATES

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today participated in a rally that City Council member Jimmy Van Bramer, organized to protest the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plans to impose work-related service shutdowns on the Number 7 subway line for up to 22 weekends this year.      Katz and Councilmember Van Bramer were joined at the […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 10 년 이내에 0으로 도시 전체 교통 사망자를 줄이기 위해 시장 드 블라시오의 "비전 제로"이니셔티브를 승인

     Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today joined New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, incoming NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Polly Trottenberg, Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley and Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Chief Operating Officer Conan Freud at a Woodside, Queens press conference during which Mayor de […]

자치구 대통령 KATZ는 자메이카의 새로운 저소득 주택 개발이 지금 응용 프로그램을 수락하고 있다고 발표

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz today announced that Rufus King Court Apartments, an affordable housing development nearing completion Jamaica, is accepting applications from low income families interested in moving into the 46-unit building.      Developed by the Arker Companies of Floral Park, Rufus King Court Apartments will offer all of its units to eligible low […]