🌱Queens 'Open Streets' + Ballpark Hole Lawsuit • Daily Digest

Good morning, Queens! It's Saturday, Oct. 16. A new study has found that the Queens streets in the Open Streets Program disproportionately favored residents in Astoria and Long Island City. See all the details below.

Today's weather: Expect showers and heavier thunderstorms. High: 74 Low: 54.

Here are the top stories today in Queens:

1. According to a new study, of the 13 active Open Streets in Queens, more than half are in Astoria and LIC and none are south of Forest Park. (Patch.com)
2. According to a lawsuit, a deep hole in Cunningham Park caused Jeremy Rosario to trip and fracture his collarbone. (Patch.com)
3. A Queens man has been sentenced to prison for the 2020 drunk driving crash that killed a passenger. (msnNOW)
4. She started selling arepas from a cart in Queens after fleeing Colombia. Now, the "Arepa Lady" reflects on the "triumph" of her thriving business. (CBS News)
5. Here are 28 things waiting for you to do in Queens. (QNS.com)

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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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