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New York City Mayor Eric Adams hosts “Talk with Eric: A Community Conversation." P.S./I.S. 191 – The Riverside School for Makers and Artists, 300 West 61st Street, New York, NY. September 6, 2023. -Photo by Benny Polatseck/Mayoral Photography Office By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice September 9, 2023 NEW YORK - In order to meet the costs of dealing with the surging migrant crisis Mayor Eric Adams is calling on all city agencies to enact a 5 percent cut in spending.  Adams announced the cuts as part of a plan to handle the ballooning migrant crisis which the mayor said will cost the taxpayers $12 billion over the next three years without federal and state support.  In an effort to maintain the city’s fiscal strength, the Adams administration is actively working to reduce housing and other costs by transitioning migrants out of the shelter system and humanitarian emergency response and relief centers to more cost-effective shelters, in addition to looking closely a...

By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice December 7, 2022  QUEENS - A heated arguement turned into fists and then bullets flying outside the construction site of a new affordable housing building in Jamaica.  At around 6:50 pm on December 6, a 22-year-old man got into an argument with an older man outside 132-77 Metropolitan Avenue. The heated argument turned physical when the two men began to fight each other.  Apparently the older man was getting the worst of it because he pulled out a handgun and fired it towards the ground. Luckily no one was injured.  The gunman then fled on foot northbound towards Metropolitan Avenue.  No injuries were reported.  A witness captured an image of the gunman on a cell phone. The suspect is described as a man in his mid 30s with a light complexion. He weighs around 250 pounds and has a large build with short, dark hair. He was last seen wearing a dark blue 'NY Yankees' baseball cap, a dark colored hooded ja...