Local Issues
Nothing is more important to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney than the quality of life in her district. She is proud of the work she has done to improve infrastructure, preserve historic neighborhoods, fight for better zoning and create schools in her 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, her first priority has always been to make her district a better place to live.
- 10021 Zip Code Split
- 2nd Avenue Subway
- 50th Street Facility
- 63rd St Tunnel Connector
- Bushwick Inlet Park
- Cell Phone Towers
- Con Edison Steampipe Explosion
- Development in Western Queens
- East Side Access
- Fashion Report
- Hurricane Sandy
- Islamic Community Center in Lower Manhattan
- Long Island City Links
- Manhattan VA Hospital
- Marine Transfer Station
- Newtown Creek
- Queens Blackout
- Queens Flooding
- Queens Plaza Roadway
- Queens Seawall
- Robert Moses Park
- Roosevelt Island
- Sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
- Shop Second Avenue
- The Inauguration of President Obama
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New York, (NY) December 20, 2016 – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), joined by Dottie Herman, Chief Executive of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the Second Avenue Merchants Association, and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, hailed a real estate and economic boom for New York City once the decades-long awaited Second Avenue Subway Line at last opens December 31, 2016.
NEW YORK—Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) joined with Congressman-elect Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and local elected officials to call on the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to include the Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Project in New Starts Project Development (PD) under the FTA’s Capital Investment Grant Program.
WASHINGTON, DC – Continuing efforts to get New York a full reimbursement for the $35 million of costs incurred protecting President-elect Trump between Election Day and Inauguration Day, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) and Congressman José E. Serrano (NY-15) jointly led a letter from members of the New York Delegation to House and Senate leadership expressing disappointment that the C.R. approved last week only included $7 million for this reimbursement and seeking the rest of the funding in the next appropriations bill.
NEW YORK—Today, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) joined with New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Congressman Jerrold Nadler at Trump Tower to call on the federal government to fully reimburse New York City for costs incurred protecting President-elect Trump from Election Day through Inauguration Day. Mayor de Blasio and the Obama Administration requested $35 million from Congress to reimburse the city to cover the extraordinary costs required to protect the President-elect and his family.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12), who, with Congressman José E. Serrano (NY-15) and 10 other members of the New York Delegation on a letter to Congressional leadership in the House and Senate calling for $35M in funding to reimburse the people of New York for costs incurred in protecting President-elect Trump and his family, issued the following statement after the release of the Continuing Resolution which only includes $7M of funding dedicated to this issue:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) was briefed today, along with other members of the New York delegation, by NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller on the effects of providing security for President-elect Trump on New Yorkers and the NYPD. Following the briefing, Congresswoman Maloney released the following statement: