🌱 TSA Job Fair + Mount Sinai Infusion Center + Kid's Bike Swap

Happy Saturday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 53 Low: 42.

Here are the top stories in Queens today:

1. There was optimism at a TSA job fair in Flushing, Queens after the Labor Department reported the biggest hiring boost since July, with 531,000 new jobs. Hundreds of job seekers lined up at the recruitment event on Friday with the hopes of being hired to fill roles at JFK and LaGuardia. The TSA offered $1,000 signing bonuses at the fair to those who were hired. (CBS New York)
2. The Department of Sanitation is hosting a free children’s bike swap on Saturday in Long Island City, as a part of an outdoor fair aimed at educating children about recycling. DonateNYC, an initiative of DSNY, will be holding the “Kids Reuse Fair” focused on recycling, swapping, and reusing babies’ and kids’ items with CultureLab LIC. Kids Ride Club, the organizer of the bike swap, is inviting parents to bring bikes that their children have outgrown to swap with parents for a properly fitted one. (LICpost.com)
3. Mount Sinai Queens celebrated the opening of its new Infusion Center. Infusion therapies provide treatment for many types of cancer, in addition to blood dis­orders, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, lupus, and osteo­porosis, among other diseases. The new Infusion Center is expanding Mount Sinai's capacity for serving patients, from seven infu­sion chairs in the old facility to ten chairs. (Queens Gazette)
4. The Rowan in Astoria has received its temporary certificate of occupancy and closings are now imminent. The 46 unit residential development is over 85 percent sold, with a recent penthouse sale setting a new record for the highest price per square foot paid for a three-bedroom condominium in the neighborhood. Condominiums in the development range from 425 to 1,857 square feet with asking prices between $789,000 and $2,549,000. (New York YIMBY).
5. Residents are fighting to prevent the demolition of a Rego Park Synagogue by telling the developer they don’t want another high rise. More than 3,500 people have signed a petition so far in order to save the historic Ohr Natan Synagogue, formally the Trylon Theater, from demolition. A representative of the developer, RJ Capital Holdings, presented plans at a community board meeting to build a 15-story building with around 150 apartments, some affordable and commercial, and space for a synagogue. (CBS New York)

Today in Queens:

• Diwali Festival - Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts (11:00 AM)
• The Kids Reuse Fair - Culture Lab LIC (12:00 PM)
• Flea Market - Queens Reformed Church (10:00 AM)

Queens Patch Notebook

• Queens Botanical Garden: "Tag your fellow pumpkin smasher! 🎃🔨 Tomorrow, Saturday, 10am-1:30pm, go to Pumpkin Smash 2021 at Lou Lodati Park in Sunnyside. Bring your pumpkins and gourds and smash, squash, or catapult them. NYC Compost Project will then turn them into compost that will revitalize soils in parks and green spaces! Don’t let your pumpkins haunt a landfill!" (Facebook)
• Queens Borough President Donovan Richards: "Join us Tuesday November 9, as we hear from NYC Department of Veterans' Services Commissioner James Hendon on programs that will benefit your business that are accessible through the U.S. Small Business Administration. RSVP at queensbp.org/rsvp" (Facebook)
• Queens Chamber of Commerce: "A happy and healthy Diwali to all who celebrate! Check out Flushing Town Hall's celebration this coming Saturday and support local businesses for your Diwali dinner spread." (Facebook)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.