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Queens Community Board 5, covering Ridgewood and surrounding areas, to gather for monthly meeting on Feb. 7.

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Jan. 31, 2024 By Anthony Medina Queens Community Board 5—which represents Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale— will bring city budget talks and future neighborhood events to the forefront of its upcoming meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 7.  The board meeting is scheduled to take place at Christ the King High School, located at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., and begins at approximately 7:30 p.m.  According to District Manager Gary Giordano, the agenda for the nightly meeting includes a public hearing on how the district is impacted by the Fiscal  Year 2025 Preliminary Budget of the City of New York, released by Mayor…
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CB5 Committee rejects 3 adult-use Cannabis dispensary applicants, greenlights 4 others

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Jan. 8, 2024 By Anthony Medina A Community Board 5 committee rejected three applicants seeking adult-use cannabis dispensary licenses on Wednesday, Jan. 3—while deciding not to block four others from opening. The board’s Cannabis Committee – which reviews applications in the Ridgewood, Glendale, Maspeth, and Middle Village neighborhoods – was tasked with weighing in on seven proposed locations for cannabis storefronts and found four of them in compliance with the New York State Office of Cannabis Management’s standards. The outcome of the meeting comes after the committee was met with strong community opposition against legal cannabis dispensaries, with many residents…
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Queens Community Board 5 gears up for monthly meeting in Middle Village on Jan. 10

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Dec. 29, 2023 By Anthony Medina Queens Community Board 5—which represents Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale—plans to hold its first monthly meeting of 2024 at Christ the King High School in Middle Village on Wednesday, Jan. 10. The meeting is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave. and open with a…
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Queens Community Board 5 set to host monthly meeting in Middle Village

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Dec. 4, 2023 By Anthony Medina Queens Community Board 5 (CB 5) will host its last monthly meeting for 2023 inside the Christ the King High School in Middle Village on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 p.m. at at 68-02 Metropolitan Ave. The public forum portion of the night will be held at the top of the meeting. Anyone wanting to speak to the board during the public forum portion of the night is asked to pre-register. To register to speak in advance of the meeting, please call CB 5 at 718-366-1834 or email at…
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Queens Community Board 5 votes to oppose proposed locations for cannabis dispensaries due to proximity to schools

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Nov. 10, 2023 By Anthony Medina Queens Community Board 5 (CB 5) officially voted to oppose all three applications for legal adult-use cannabis dispensaries during its meeting at Christ the King High School in Middle Village, on Wednesday, Nov. 8.  As a follow-up to the Community Board 5 Liquor License and Cannabis Committee meeting held last week, board members heard again from the public regarding the proposed sites for the state’s conditional adult-use retail dispensary applicants and moved to vote on the matter once and for all.  Once the Liquor License and Cannabis Committee report was shared with the board,…
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Community Board 5 ponders ambitious capital budget requests during public hearing session in Middle Village

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Sep. 14, 2023 By Anthony Medina A public hearing at the Community Board 5 meeting at Christ the King High School in Middle Village on Sept. 13 regarding the fiscal year 2025 capital and expense budget of New York City, as it pertains to the board’s district, brought some requests and skepticism from board members. Community boards across the city gather information from their respective communities to formulate a statement on the district’s needs and budget requests. For Community Board 5 (CB 5), which serves the neighborhoods of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village and Ridgewood, these requests need to be within…
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New traffic light now operational at Ridgewood intersection

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Dec. 22, 2022 By Elijah Hamilton Community Board 5 announced that the new traffic light at Grandview Avenue and Amory Court is now operational after it was installed by the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) upon the board’s request. “There’s a lot of traffic on Grandview Avenue in that area between Metropolitan Avenue and Stanhope Steet,… Read more »