United Airlines is back at JFK Airport. After a five year hiatus United returned with a large passenger turnout for its legendary coast-to-coast flights which began back in 1938.
2021 AIRPORT V 12 OICE WOMAN OF ACHIEVEMENT
Photos by Jeff Yapalater
Selvena Brooks
Area city council
representative
Selvena Brooks-Powers
was officially sworn into the
city council on March 19 after
winning a special election
to represent Queens’ Council
District 31.
A massive, $13 billion overhaul
of JFK is underway, but
has stalled as a result of COVID
related restrictions and
budget deficits. Mayor Bill de
Blasio announced last month
that the program would soon
speed up, and that the city
would hold the Port Authority
and terminal developers
accountable to a community
agreement package that guarantees
thousands of jobs for local residents. The agreements also mandates
that at least 30 percent of contracts go to minority and women-owned
business enterprises, or MWBEs.
Before the election, Brooks-Powers served as head of MWBE contract
compliance at the JFK Redevelopment project. She said Sunday that she
would continue to oversee those commitments as part of the community
advisory board.
The project “sets out to be one of the largest transformative projects in
recent history in our community,” she said. “My expectation is for us to
be able to not only achieve goals set forward by the port authority and the
terminal developers but also to exceed it and I think from the very onset,
the terminal developers have been at the table.”
NYS Sustainability
Nation-Leading Climate Plan
70% renewable enegy by 2030
Governor Cuomo’s nation-leading
climate agenda is the most aggressive
climate and clean energy
initiative in the nation, calling for
an orderly and just transition to
clean energy that creates jobs and
continues fostering a green economy
as New York State recovers
from the COVID-19 pandemic. Enshrined
into law through the Climate
Leadership and Community
Protection Act, New York is on a
path to achieving its mandated
goal of a zero-emission electricity
sector by 2040, including 70 percent
renewable energy generation
by 2030, and to reach economy wide carbon neutrality. It builds on New
York’s unprecedented ramp-up of clean energy including over $4 billion
invested in 91 large-scale renewable projects across the state, supporting
more than 150,000 jobs in New York’s clean energy sector in 2019, a commitment
to develop 9,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2035, and 1,800
percent growth in the distributed solar sector since 2011. Under Governor
Cuomo’s leadership, New York will build on this progress and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent from 1990 levels by 2050, while
ensuring that at least 35 percent with a goal of 40 percent of the benefits of
clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities and advancing
progress towards the state’s 2025 energy efficiency target of reducing onsite
energy consumption by 185 trillion BTUs of end-use energy savings.