Local Issues

Nothing is more important to me than the quality of life in my district, and I am proud of the work I have done to improve infrastructure, preserve historic neighborhoods, fight for better zoning and create schools in my district. Whether working to create an academically rigorous public high school on the Upper East Side, seeking to restore the crumbling Queens seawall or fighting for a full build Second Avenue Subway, my first priority has always been to make my district a better place to live.

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Aug 20, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Liz Krueger, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, Council Member Jessica Lappin, and members of the East Side community gathered near the East River waterfront to speak out against plans to build a garbage transfer station on the East River at 91st Street.

Aug 18, 2011 Press Release

Queens, NY – This morning, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney toured “The Entrepreneur’s Space,” a business incubator in Long Island City sponsored by the City of New York.

Aug 18, 2011 Press Release

ASTORIA, NY – Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, City Council Member Peter F. Vallone, Jr., District Leader Costa Constantinides, John Dirzius and Chuck Zlatkin of the American Postal Workers Union, representatives of State Senator Michael Gianaris and Assembly Member Aravella Simotas, and western Queens community leaders and residents rallied outside Grand Station in Astoria to urge the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep the local postal facility open.

Aug 18, 2011 Press Release

NEW YORK, NY - Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, State Senator José M. Serrano, Assembly Member Micah Kellner, City Council Member Jessica Lappin, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation President Leslie Torres, Roosevelt Island Residents Association President Matthew Katz, Chuck Zlatkin of the American Postal Workers Union, and Roosevelt Island community leaders and residents rallied outside the Roosevelt Island Station to urge the United States Postal Service to keep open the only post office located on Roosevelt Island.

Aug 16, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) today commended the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for its decision to suspend after 7pm blasting related to the construction of the Second Avenue Subway.

Aug 8, 2011 Press Release

New York, NY – U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) today reported that concrete for the Second Avenue Subway project that was tested by a recently-indicted lab has been retested by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), and that independent test results have determined that the concrete meets all safety standards.

Aug 2, 2011 Press Release

ASTORIA, NY -- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, State Senator Michael Gianaris, Assembly Member Aravella Simotas, and City Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr., today announced that they had sent a joint letter to U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donohoe urging the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep open the Grand Station post office in Astoria.

Jul 26, 2011 Press Release

NEW YORK, NY - Today, U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) had agreed to the request she and her colleagues in local government – State Senator Liz Krueger, Assemblyman Micah Kellner, former Assemblyman Jonathan Bing and Councilmembers Dan Garodnick and Jessica Lappin –  made on June 14, 2011 that it solicit public comment on the City's effort to secure a permit to construct a new dock in the East River, which is needed to open a controversial garbage transfer station in the middle of a densely residential neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Jul 13, 2011 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) joined with Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), fellow House colleagues, and representatives of law enforcement organizations at a Capitol Hill press conference organized by Pascrell to oppose the proposed elimination of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office.
Jul 1, 2011 Press Release
Queens, NY – Today, on the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the Medicare program, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) spoke to seniors at the HANAC Senior Center in Astoria about her efforts to fight plans put forward by the Republican House majority to end Medicare as we know it.  President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965 -- and on July 1, 1966, enrollees first entered the program.

On April 15th of this year, House Republicans passed a budget by a vote of 235 to 193 that would end Medicare as we know it – instead giving seniors an increasingly inadequate subsidy to buy private insurance.

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