🌱 One Queens Hospital Earns 'A' Grade + Vernon Blvd Residential Tower

Get on up, Queens! Let's get you all caught up to start this day off on an informed note. These are the most important things going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Sun mixing with clouds. High: 70 Low: 56.

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Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. In 2022, only one Queens hospital earned an 'A' safety grade, due to the pandemic reversing years of progress in patient safety. According to a national ranking of patient safety in U.S. hospitals released this week by the Leapfrog Group, Jamaica's NYC Health and Hospitals was the only hospital out of eight to receive an 'A.' One other Queens hospital received a 'D,' and the remaining six received 'C's. (Patch)
2. A development company wants to build a 23-story residential tower on Vernon Blvd. in Queens. Quadrum Global, an international investment firm, is seeking a zoning variance to rehabilitate the Paragon Paint building at 45-40 Vernon Boulevard and develop a tower behind it. Queens Community Board 2 scheduled a vote for Jun. 2. (Queens Post)
3. Police have identified the suspect wanted for killing a woman and wounding another in Ridgewood on Monday morning. 55-year-old Pedro Cintron allegedly shot his 51-year-old girlfriend, Migdalia Ortega, in the head during a domestic dispute while inside her apartment at 66-17 Fresh Pond Rd. He also opened fire on a neighbor who came to help. Cintron fled the scene in a dark blue Nissan Rogue and is wanted by the police. Click the link for photos. (Ridgewood Post)

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Today in Queens:

• Live It Up: Get Healthy, Live Well, At Catholic Charities - Far Rockaway Clinic (9:30 AM)
• Microsoft Word 101, At Hollis Branch Library (And Multiple Other Library Locations) (3:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• It’s time to send in your applications for the Queens Museum’s Summer Camp! For three weeks in July, aspiring artists are invited to join the museum for art-making workshops, fun-themed games, and art-inspired activities. (Facebook)
• A Queens bike shop was badly damaged on Monday after an e-bike burst into flames. (ABC)
• Queens Council Member Robert Holden and Joann Ariola are urging the city and state to expand and utilize Kendra's Law, which provides patient care for people with mental illness who are unable to safely live in a community without supervision. (Twitter)

Alrighty, you're all good for today. I'll catch up with you bright and early tomorrow morning with a new update!

— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander, now living in New York. 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, drinking tea, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.