Nas Gets Key To Queens + De Blasio's Rikers Visit • Daily Digest

Good morning, Queens! Welcome to Wednesday, Sept. 29. Did you know that, statistically speaking, American professionals get more accomplished on Tuesday than any other day of the work week? Good luck!

Today's weather: It'll be a crisp, clear fall day. High: 69 Low: 53.

Here are the top stories today in Queens:

1. Nas now has the key to the borough of Queens, and it's well deserved. Here's how the Grammy Award-winning rapper raised enough money to feed more than 2.5 million New Yorkers. (Patch.com)
2. Baysider Khiron Anderson, 24, vanished from his home last Wednesday. Can you help locate him? (Patch.com)
3. Local police have released video of the suspects they're hunting in a Queens elevator execution. (New York Post )
4. Did you know that New Yorkers can get paid $100 to get the Covid-19 vaccine? (Haitian Times)
5. Police say they're on the trail of a man wanted for groping stroller-pushing women in Queens. (CBS New York)
6. Mayor Bill de Blasio is reflecting on his Rikers Island visit Monday. "The whole thing upsets me," he said. (The New York Times)

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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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