Forest Hills pols want landmarking study for West Side Tennis Club stadium
Posted by Anna Gustafson in Assembly, City Council, City Offices, Congress, District 16, District 28, District 29, District 9, State Senate, U.S. House on August 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
“We love that the tennis club is our neighbor,” Weiner said. “In the midst of rural Queens, a stone’s throw from the Long Island Expressway, we have grass tennis courts. We have a place that has history that goes back generations. As there are conversations about how to deal with the stadium, the community needs to have a voice.”
Crowley, pols call for better rules on commuter vans
Posted by Rebecca Henely in City Council, District 19, District 29, District 30 on August 5, 2010 | No Comments
Crowley, flanked by Council members Karen Koslowitz (D-Forest Hills) and Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone), said she wrote the bill in response to complaints from local residents, who protest the use of both unauthorized and uninsured private companies operating vans in Maspeth, as well as legitimate commuter van companies coming into the community when they are not authorized to operate in the Maspeth area.
Katz to join law firm after term in Council
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Forest Hills) announced last week she will join one of the country’s largest law firms, Greenberg Traurig, after leaving public office at the end of December. “I’m very excited about it,” said Katz, who lost her bid for city comptroller in September’s Democratic primary. Katz, whose Council term will end Dec. [...]
Koslowitz headed to Council with victory over Schulman
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
Karen Koslowitz defeated Lynn Schulman and Bartholomew Bruno Tuesday in the race to replace City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Forest Hills), claiming a victory that sends the former councilwoman back to City Hall, according to unofficial results reported by NY1. Koslowitz, a Democrat, beat Schulman, a Democrat running in the general election on the Working Families [...]
Katz seat contenders make last rounds to gather votes
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
The two candidates running to replace City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D-Forest Hills) are continuing their efforts to woo voters before the Nov. 3 general election in a race that Karen Koslowitz and Lynn Schulman do not expect to be an easy win for either of them. Koslowitz, who is running on the Democratic and Independent [...]
Koslowitz backed by NY Hotel and Motel Trades Council
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on October 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council threw its support on Wednesday behind Karen Koslowitz’s bid to replace Councilwoman Melinda Katz in the Council’s 29th District. Koslowitz, a Democrat, is running against Lynn Schulman, a Democrat who lost in the primary and is now running on the Working Families Party line. “Karen has a [...]
Lynn Schulman to run on WFP line in November
Posted by Jeremy Walsh in City Council, District 29 on October 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
Community Board 6 member Lynn Schulman gave Queens Democratic Party-supported Karen Koslowitz a run for her money in the race for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz’s (D-Forest Hills) seat last month in the primary. Now Schulman is poised to take her on again in the general election as she gears up to run on the Working [...]
Cohen camp says dead people on voter registration growing pains of campaign
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
Former City Council candidate Albert Cohen’s camp dismissed reports his campaign had sent in numerous voter registration forms fraught with errors, including the names of dead people, saying any mistakes were growing pains in a massive effort to register voters who Cohen officials called disenfranchised. “The Cohen campaign registered over 3,000 new voters in a [...]
Koslowitz paves way back to City Hall with primary win
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on September 16, 2009 | 7 Comments
Karen Koslowitz is headed back to a place she knows well: City Hall. Koslowitz beat her five challengers in the Democratic primary for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz’s (D-Forest Hills) seat as of Tuesday night, garnering 1,834 votes, or 25.89 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results from the city Board of Elections. The former [...]
Voters swarmed by campaign workers on slow Primary Day in Forest Hills
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on September 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
Voters walking up to Forest Hills High School Tuesday were eagerly accosted by candidates’ volunteers who doused campaign literature on the individuals about to cast their ballots in what poll workers said was an especially slow primary day. Around noon on Tuesday, a lone man hurried along the sidewalk to the school and fended off [...]
TimesLedger Makes Endorsements in Six Democratic City Council Primaries
Posted by TimesLedger Newspapers in City Council, District 19, District 20, District 23, District 25, District 26, District 29 on September 10, 2009 | 5 Comments
There have been primaries and general elections in the past when Queens voters could have done their patriotic duty just as well by staying in bed. But in the Democratic primaries that will be held next Tuesday, voters in many districts will have the chance to nominate candidates in close races that will go on [...]
Koslowitz gets backing from UFA
Posted by Anna Gustafson in City Council, District 29 on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
The Uniformed Firefighters’ Association of Greater New York has thrown its support behind Karen Koslowitz’s bid for Councilwoman Melinda Katz’s seat. The union represents 9,000 members of the city Fire Department. “We are proud to endorse Karen Koslowitz for City Council based on her strong track record in public safety and her history of fighting [...]
