Councilman James Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) wants to mandate daily trash pickups throughout New York city to help combat the problem of overflowing litter baskets in Queens.

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Queens has the highest rate of late-stage breast cancer detection in the nation, due to a variety of reasons. It stands at 33 percent versus the national average of 12 percent, according to the Queens Cancer Center. Now a grassroots effort called HealthLink is mobilizing survivors like Harris to reach out in laundry rooms and libraries across the borough to screen women in time.

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By Evan R. Wexler Pierre Morel, a Queens homeowner with $245,000 in mortgage debt, keeps his stretch-marked leather briefcase close at hand. The legal advisers at the Foreclosure Prevention Court Clinic in central Jamaica tell him to. Their flyers for homeowners say in capital letters: “BRING ALL YOUR DOCUMENTS.” So, Morel, a 51-year-old Haitian immigrant, takes the [...]

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