🌱Astoria Demolition Plans +Honoring A Heart Donor • Daily Digest

Good morning, Queens! It's Thursday, Oct. 21. Plans have been filed with the Department of Buildings to tear down the two adjacent buildings at 21-25 and 21-33 Broadway. That's half the entire block. Get all the details below.

Today's weather: Perfect? It'll be mostly sunny and warm. High: 73 Low: 63.

Here are the top stories today in Queens:

1. A pair of buildings on Broadway that once housed eight now-vacant stores spanning more than half a block could soon be demolished. (Patch.com)
2. At last week's Forest Hills donor ceremony, resident Robert Skaretka sat next to Megan Ryan — the sister of his donor. (Patch.com)
3. Have a look at what you can do in Queens this week: (Western Queens Gazette)
4. A new sculpture installation in Jackson Heights pays tribute to the people of NYC. (QNS.com)(Brooklyn Paper)
5. New evidence has led to a Far Rockaway man's prison release. (Queens Daily Eagle)

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— Kevin Phinney

About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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