🌱 State Of The City Address + MTA Heroes Find $8K + New Offshore Site

Hello, everybody. It's me, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Queens Daily — here to explain everything you need to know about what's happening in the community.

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Partly sunny. High: 42 Low: 36.

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Here are the top three stories today in Queens:

1. On Thursday, Mayor Eric Adams hosted his second State of the City address in Queens. During the speech, the mayor outlined a "Working People's Agenda" for New York City, in which he plans to make the city safer, cleaner, and more affordable and livable. During the event at Queens Theatre at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the mayor laid out his plan, which rests on four pillars: jobs, safety, housing, and care. (ABC7)
2. Two MTZ heroes found a passenger's envelope filled with $8,000 on a bus. This week, while en route to the Far Rockaway Bus Depot after finishing his last stop, Alvaro Carangui received a call from his supervisor, Brenon Terrelonge, stating someone had left an envelope filled with cash on the bus. The duo swept the bus and found the envelope with the money still inside; the envelope was returned to its owner. (ABC7)
3. On Tuesday, representatives of Rise Light & Power announced the acquisition of an offshore wind site to deliver power to the Ravenswood Generating Station. The acquisition comes as part of a plan to transform the plant into a clean energy hub. Rise Light & Power, which operates the station located north of the Queensboro Bridge, said the offshore site would deliver more than 1,000 megawatts of power to the plant, which currently generates around 1,800 megawatts and is mainly powered by gas. The new site will not be visible by land. (LIC Post)

Today in Queens:

• CAPICU! 1 Year Anniversary At Scorpion Records (6:00 PM)
• Make Your Mark: Art Making Series At ARROW Community Center & Field House (6:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Celebrate Lunar New Year with lion dances, zodiac-themed crafts, and more at the Queens Botanical Garden on Jan. 28, beginning at 12:00 p.m. Learn more about the day's festivities by clicking here. (Queens, New York via Facebook)
• The Triborough Film Festival is taking place this weekend! Watch several dozen movies in eight thematic blocks at the Zukor Theater at Kaufman Astoria Studios and the LIC hotel The Local. More information about the scheduled films can be found here. (Queens, New York via Facebook)
• In case you missed it: On Sunday, Jan. 22, more than 400 members of the St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church parish in Flushing hosted a special afternoon of prayer, remembrance, and cultural activities to ring in the Year of the Rabbit. (QNS)

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That's it for today! See you all tomorrow for another update.

— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners. She is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where she earned degrees in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or practicing film photography.