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Empire BlueCross BlueShield To Open New Community Center In Queens
The purpose of the center is to address health inequality concerns in the Flushing community, according to the healthcare provider.

Naeisha Rose is a Jamaican-born multimedia journalist living in Queens, New York. As a general assignment editor at Patch.com she covers news throughout New York City and Long Island.
She was the Southeast Queens associate editor at Queens Chronicle and she earned a master's degree in 2015 from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in Arts & Culture Reporting and Broadcast. During college she interned for LatinTrends Magazine and for award-winning documentary filmmaker Jason DaSilva.
After graduating, she freelanced for LatinTrends Magazine, Publishers Weekly, RT Book Reviews, the Queens Daily Eagle, The Haitian Times, Queens County Politics, WhereItzAt, The Hub News, Chelsea Now and TimesLedger Newspaper, where she later became a general assignment reporter and photojournalist. She also worked as a production assistant on the “No Responders Left Behind” documentary, which is currently out on Discovery+, with Director Rob Lindsay and Producer Kelly Zemnickis, featuring 9/11 activist John Feal and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
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The purpose of the center is to address health inequality concerns in the Flushing community, according to the healthcare provider.

Two sites in Queens for blood drives on Sept. 11 include Little Neck and Holliswood, according to The New York Blood Center.
A Zoom meeting with Community Board 11 will be held on Sept. 12 to discuss the city's proposed bike lanes.
The $9.5 billion project was delayed by the pandemic, but is expected to open by 2026 with an expansive 300,000 square foot terminal.
Justin Echeverry, 19, of Flushing was also indicted on weapon charges, added the District Attorney's Office.
Fans speculate the Jamaica-raised hip hop star will feature an all women lineup or all women rappers on the remix, reported Hot New Hip Hop.
Michael Spivey will walk away with a lump sum of over $526,000 after purchasing the game from a supermarket, officials announced.
Newly released NYPD data show that while the number of shootings dropped, overall crime is on the rise.
“We enjoy ourselves,” said Michael Perlman. “Power to the people who understand and value their communities most by taking the initiative."
A massive local synagogue could be sold to developers and torn down, according to city records and reports.
Police released photos Friday of a Mustang with rally stripes they saw was involved in the Whitestone Expressway shooting.
National Estuaries Week is from Sept. 17 to Sept. 24, according to Restore America's Estuaries.
Those interested in running have until Oct. 1 to reach out to the BHCA election chair.
Take a pic with Serena Williams' wax figure, hit the boardwalk for a reggae music festival or enjoy some fireworks for the end of summer.
The 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will take place at 7 p.m., according to the civic association.
New evidence may prove Dorothy Hirsch's innocence and lack of involvement in the death of a delivery worker, according to her lawyer.
The burglaries occurred in Central, Southeast and Northeast Queens, according to police.
Queens will get rain gardens, flood sensor technology, blue sewer systems and retention ponds, city officials said.
“You’re taken into a new dimension," said Ilya Musheyev, 31, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills.
Guests will have the opportunity to interact with the Union "infantry" and learn how they lived in the 1860s, according to the organization.