Marc Leavitt, a Sunnyside local, has lofty plans to wrest the Queens Borough Council presidency away from Helen Marshall (D) this year. Leavitt (D), an attorney who has just set up his campaign office in Woodside, has to collect about 15,000 signatures before he can get on the ballot and force Marshall into a Sept.…
Category: Politics
Jimmy Van Bramer Leads Visible Campaign
Political signs calling on voters to elect Jimmy Van Bramer as Sunnyside/Woodside’s city council member have been popping up in windows throughout the neighborhood recently. Van Bramer and three other Democrats will do battle in the Democratic primary this September as they vie for the seat that is being vacated by Eric Gioia,…
One Mile of Queens Blvd is Renamed
Twenty blocks along Queens Boulevard that run through Sunnyside and Woodside have been renamed after the late Congressman Thomas J. Manton Boulevard. Local officials have renamed the blocks between 38th Street through 58th Street for Manton. Manton represented parts of Queens in Congress from 1986 to 1998 and served as head of the Queens Democratic Organization from 1986 through to his death in 2006.…
Gioia to Set Fast Food Boundaries
Councilman Eric Gioia (Sunnyside) announced last week a proposal to ban fast food restaurants within 0.1 miles, or about 500 feet, of schools. The move is yet another indication of his disire to be New York City public advocate. A study released by the University of California and Columbia University,…