🌱 Muggers Stab Teen On 37th Ave. + LAGCC Raises $15M For Students

Good day, neighbors! Miranda Fraraccio here with your Friday Queens Daily.

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Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. A 16-year-old was stabbed by a group of violent muggers in Queens. According to police, the teen was riding with two male passengers at the corner of 37th Avenue and 82nd Street in Elmhurst around 3:45 p.m. on Mar. 29, when the crew of strangers approached and demanded his ride. Footage released late Wednesday showed the crew punching and kicking the teen and his passengers before stabbing the teen once in the back. The victim was listed in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital and it is unclear whether the passengers were hospitalized. (New York Post)
2. LaGuardia Community College raised $15 million to support students whose studies were impacted by COVID-19. The money comes from a fundraising campaign the college launched last year with a goal of bringing in $10 million, which was needed to unlock a $5 million gift from an anonymous donor. According to the college, students who receive the school's aid are three times more likely to graduate. (Queens Post)
3. A Forest Hills resident believes it’s time that the city officially recognizes Juneteenth as a holiday. Irene Raevsky, an attorney and manager for the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, noticed that the holiday — which was made a public holiday by Mayor de Blasio in 2021 — was not on the city’s calendar when her Black colleagues turned to her with questions about whether they would celebrate it this summer. “It’s perplexing that a federal holiday that is recognized by the state of New York is not recognized by the city,” Raevsky said. (Queens Chronicle)

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Today in Queens:

• Creative Aging: Collage/Assemblage/ The Next Level, At Glen Oaks Branch Library (10:15 AM)
• 3rd Annual Queens Underground International Black History Month Film Festival, At King Manor Museum (6:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Congratulations to Astoria resident Sarah Mae Lagasca, who was surprised with a $25,000 check and the Milken education award for her outstanding work as a music teacher at Arts High School in Newark, New Jersey during an assembly last Friday. (Twitter)
• Are you in the market for a new home? Check out these two new homes for sale in the Queens area. (Queens Patch)
• A Queens College student has become the first-ever CUNY athlete invited to try out for the US women's wheelchair basketball national team. (QNS.com)

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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.