The City’s massive Willets Point redevelopment plan was approved with no changes at a City Planning Commission meeting Wednesday, amidst continued calls by City Council members, ACORN, Queens for Affordable Housing, Pratt Center for Community Development, and Queens residents for the Economic Development Corp. to withdraw it and make major changes.

Published by GlobeSt on September 24, 2008.

He was nowhere to be found. The news hacks on the scene had their story. Flushing Meadows Municipal Stadium, the new ballpark being built in Queens, the future home of the expansion Mets, would be named after him.

Published by New York Daily News on September 20, 2008.

The cars, yanked from the streets of Flushing, Astoria, Long Island City and Ozone Park, were mostly from the '90s, but included a 1978 Cadillac.

Published by New York Post on September 20, 2008.

The New York City Economic Development Corp. has signed a property acquisition agreement with a business with which it had been negotiating at Willets Point, Queens. The deal is the fifth agreement reached and NYCEDC expects to reach additional agreements soon, as the City proceeds through the Uniformed Land Use Review Procedure.

Published by GlobeSt on September 19, 2008.

A number of the larger private development projects in the city--the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, Columbia University's planned West Harlem expansion and the proposed redevelopment of Willets Point in Queens, to name a few--plan to use eminent domain to take property and create large, contiguous space for new development.

Published by The New York Observer on September 17, 2008.