Gabriel Sandoval, Author at THE CITY - NYC News

Queens

After Massive Fire, Thieves Ransacked Apartments and Cops Won’t Help, Queens Tenants Say

March 7, 2022, 8:14 p.m.July 12, 2022, 4:50 p.m.

Dozens of Jackson Heights tenants, still displaced nearly a year after blaze, say the NYPD won’t allow them to report their belongings stolen — and demand justice.

Streets

Illegal Dumping Piles Up in Southeast Queens But Neighbors Fight Back

Feb. 27, 2022, 8:02 p.m.March 14, 2024, 2:23 p.m.

Outsider trash has long been a problem in neighborhoods like Hollis, Jamaica and St. Albans. In lieu of help from officials, many community are taking matters into their own hands.

Utilities

NYC Manhole Fires Have Doubled in the Last Two Years

Feb. 13, 2022, 5:11 p.m.March 14, 2024, 2:24 p.m.

Smoke and gases from smoldering wires can send manhole covers flying — and the results can be disastrous.

Education

CUNY Community Colleges Contend With Plunging Enrollment

Feb. 1, 2022, 6:29 p.m.Feb. 2, 2022, 8:50 a.m.

Student body has shrunk by 23% at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, one of seven two-year schools struggling to keep high school grads g up amid pandemic upheaval.

Economy

Mountain of Money From New York Migrants Sustains Mexican Towns Through Pandemic

Jan. 30, 2022, 6:18 p.m.Jan. 31, 2022, 8:40 a.m.

Remittances from workers to their families in Mexico are shattering records as family send money and even donated food cans to keep their relatives afloat.

Transit

Interborough Express Plows Through Past Opposition to Rail Line Reactivation

Jan. 23, 2022, 8:13 p.m.Jan. 24, 2022, 1:22 p.m.

Many Brooklyn and Queens leaders and residents cheer Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to bring mass transit service to an existing freight line linking the boroughs. So far, pols who’ve pushed back on train plans have remained mum.

Government

Albany Readies to Renew Remote Meeting Option for New York Government Bodies

Jan. 13, 2022, 4:46 p.m.Jan. 13, 2022, 4:46 p.m.

With a law allowing Zoom sessions expiring even as omicron spreads, Gov. Kathy Hochul has a bill on her desk that would virtual sessions for as long as pandemic emergency lasts.

City Hall

Meet Your City Council: Learn More About NYC’s New Lawmakers

Jan. 2, 2022, 9:23 p.m.Jan. 4, 2022, 9:50 a.m.

THE CITY surveyed incoming and recently arrived City Council to learn about their priorities for their district, their first-term goals and more. What you don’t know about your new representative might surprise you.

Protesters ing Palestinian rights rally in front of the Israeli Consulate in New York City.

CUNY

CUNY Law Students’ Call for Israeli Academic Boycott Ripples Through University Roiled by BDS Fight

Dec. 13, 2021, 9:26 p.m.Dec. 14, 2021, 10:38 a.m.

A resolution expressing solidarity with the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement marks the latest example of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict playing out across some of CUNY’s 25 campuses, raising tensions and stoking dissension.

Queens

Vaunted $67M Flushing Pool to Finally Reopen for a Quick Dip — Then Close Again

Dec. 8, 2021, 9:40 p.m.Dec. 8, 2021, 9:40 p.m.

The Olympic-sized Queens public aquatic center that’s been closed since before the pandemic due to a crumbling roof is set to reopen next early year with protective netting. But swimmers will be ordered out again once redesign plans for the ceiling are finished.

Gabriel Sandoval

After Massive Fire, Thieves Ransacked Apartments and Cops Won’t Help, Queens Tenants Say

Illegal Dumping Piles Up in Southeast Queens But Neighbors Fight Back

NYC Manhole Fires Have Doubled in the Last Two Years

CUNY Community Colleges Contend With Plunging Enrollment

Mountain of Money From New York Migrants Sustains Mexican Towns Through Pandemic

Interborough Express Plows Through Past Opposition to Rail Line Reactivation

Albany Readies to Renew Remote Meeting Option for New York Government Bodies

Meet Your City Council: Learn More About NYC’s New Lawmakers

CUNY Law Students’ Call for Israeli Academic Boycott Ripples Through University Roiled by BDS Fight

Vaunted $67M Flushing Pool to Finally Reopen for a Quick Dip — Then Close Again

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