🌱 Senior Resident Struck By Car + $1 Million For Queens Hospital

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

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny and not as cool. High: 60 Low: 45.

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Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. A Queens resident was fatally struck by an unlicensed driver this week. The unlicensed box truck driver came to a halt before suddenly plowing into Larry Holmes, 73, on his daily morning wheelchair trip to a nearby store. The driver, Freddy Saquisili, was arrested for aggravated unlicensed driving. (NYDailyNews)
2. Four members of La Mara Salvatrucha — the gang also known as MS-13 — face murder, robbery, and drug and weapons charges in an indictment unsealed this week from attacking a Queens mother with a machete in April. They stand accused of murdering 31-year-old Nazareth Claure last April and stashing her corpse in a car. The members were charged as part of an 11-person gang takedown. (Patch.com)
3. Yesterday, NYC Hospitals announced $1M in funding was secured in the Fiscal Year 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act. This funding, critical to the creation of a new Outpatient Dialysis Center at the hospital, will also patients with chronic renal dialysis needs, or those waiting for a kidney transplant, access to dialysis treatments on the Queen’s Hospital campus. (NYC Health + Hospitals)

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Today in Queens:

• American History Series - Far Rockaway Branch Library (10:00 AM)
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From my notebook:

• The Queens Botanical Garden, other cultural sites, and public libraries are partnering with NYC Test & Trace Corps to distribute FREE at-home COVID-19 tests! Distribution at the Garden takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, 12 to 4 p.m. (Facebook)
• The Queens Museum encourages residents to learn more about the importance of the Queens watershed, which provides clean drinking water to all of New York City. Visit the Relief Map of New York Waterways at Queens Museum to see it in person! (Facebook)
• The Queens Public Library branch in Fresh Meadows is sponsoring a community-woven tapestry. Bring your own yarn, ribbon, or clean fabric strips to add to the loom, which is accessible to all on the library's main floor. (Queens Library)

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— 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.