Hevesi wants barriers for Fresh Pond trains
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 28 on November 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) is calling on a city body to install sound barriers near the Fresh Pond Terminal in Ridgewood so residents will not have to hear loud freight trains passing by the neighborhood. Hevesi also urged the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council to compel train operators to buy more technologically advanced [...]
Avella bill would compel city to address raccoon population
Posted by Rich Bockmann in Assembly, District 11, District 28, State Senate on August 18, 2011 | No Comments
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) is calling on the city Department of Health to take responsibility for nuisance raccoons he says are plaguing residents in northeast Queens, but the department has responded that ?it is the senator’s proposed legislation that is the real pest. Avella stood alongside state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and residents [...]
Hevesi to chair Assembly Oversight Committee
Posted by Joe Anuta in Assembly, District 28 on July 7, 2011 | No Comments
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) was recently named chairman of the Assembly Oversight, Analysis and Investigations Committee. “Assemblyman Hevesi will have a key role in ensuring a responsible and efficient government in New York,” Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) said in a statement. “I know he will be a tremendous leader in this capacity [...]
Hevesi graft an open secret
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, District 28, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment
Long before disgraced former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi was charged in October for his role in a pay-to-play scandal involving the state pension fund under his watch, a little-known treasurer of Saratoga County, J. Christopher Callaghan, knew something was up — and it was in plain sight. Callaghan, who ran on the Republican line against [...]
Hevesi’s judgment day delayed after former comptroller falls ill
Posted by Howard Koplowitz in Assembly, City Comptroller, City Offices, District 28, State Comptroller, Statewide Offices on March 31, 2011 | No Comments
The sentencing of Alan Hevesi, the former state comptroller from Forest Hills, on a corruption charge involving the state pension fund was postponed Monday after he was hospitalized for internal bleeding over the weekend. The New York Post said Hevesi experienced symptoms during a visit to his daughter in Virginia and underwent an emergency endoscopy, [...]
Hevesi proposes bill to tackle sex abuse
Posted by Joe Anuta in Assembly, District 28 on March 24, 2011 | 1 Comment
Following allegations in February that a Rochdale ?Little League coach sexually abused his teenage team members, a Forest Hills lawmaker recently proposed a bill to make it harder for sex offenders to work with kids. “That case absolutely sparked this and highlighted gaps in the law,” said state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills), referring to [...]
