🌱 Hour Children + Interborough Express + Queens Subway Stabbing

Hey, Queens! Let's get you started this Thursday with everything you need to know going on today in Queens.

First, today's weather:

Turning cloudy. High: 37 Low: 30.

Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. Hour Children has announced the retirement of founder and Executive Director Sister Tesa Fitzgerald after 30 years in a leadership position. Fitzgerald will be succeeded by Dr. Alethea Tay­lor, who formerly served as a distinguished doctoral lecturer with Hunter College School of Education and as the executive director of Greenhope Services for Women. Hour Children is a leading provider of services for incarcerated and formerly in­carcerated women and their children in New York State. (Western Queens Gazette)
2. On Wednesday, during her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed a new, ‘transformational’ train that would connect Brooklyn and Queens. The proposed train, dubbed the “Interborough Express,” would serve roughly one million New Yorkers and could connect as many as 17 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road. According to estimates by the governor’s office, the proposed train could provide an end-to-end travel time of less than 40 minutes, with significantly shorter commutes along smaller segments of the line. (WPIX 11 New York)
3. NYPD is offering a reward up to $3,500 in the investigation of a Queens subway platform stabbing. On Sunday at around 2:30 p.m., the suspect approached a man on the Manhattan-bound A train platform at Rockaway Boulevard. A 36-year-old man was stabbed twice in the neck and is recovering in the hospital. (Spectrum News NY1)

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• A new Culture Lab LIC exhibition, Alternative Processes: Other Ways of Seeing, shows alternate ways to develop and see photos. (Facebook)
• Free COVID-19 testing is available in all five boroughs through the Test & Trace Corps. Visit http://testandtrace.nyc for more information. (Twitter)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners, and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.