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ecuted William Morales, a
suspected member of the
Puerto Rican separatist
group FALN, who was convicted
in connection with
an explosion at a Jackson
Heights bomb factory.
In October 1979, he resigned
to serve as an Assistant
Attorney General
in the New York State Department
of Law where,
as a special prosecutor,
he brought the Tawana
Brawley investigation to a
just conclusion.
In 1991, shortly after
Brown was appointed
Queens County District Attorney
by then-Gov. Mario
Cuomo, Ryan returned to
the Queens DA’s office as
Chief of Investigations and,
in 1997, was promoted to
Chief Assistant District Attorney,
a position he held
until Thursday.
In 2016, Brown honored
Ryan for his “innumerable
contributions” during his
long tenure at the Queens
DA’s office.
“As Chief Assistant,
Jack’s contributions to
this office cannot be measured
by individual criminal
cases, although his
input and influence can be
found on many, if not all,
of the major cases prosecuted
in Queens County
over the last twenty-five
years,” Brown said. “His
work has broader ramifications,
significantly improving
the quality of life
of the families residing in
many Queens communities
and effectively making
these neighborhoods safer
places in which to live by
adapting the office to the
crime-fighting needs of
the diverse communities of
the county and seeing that
the guilty are punished for
their crimes.”
A spokeswoman for the
Queens DA’s office said,
“At this time Chief Executive
Assistant District Attorney
John Ryan’s only
statement is that this
day belongs to the District
Attorney Richard
A. Brown.”
Ryan will now finish
the remaining nine months
of Brown’s term until he is
replaced by a newly elected
district attorney in January.
There are currently
seven candidates competing
in the June 25 Democratic
primary, including
Queens Borough President
Melinda Katz, City Councilman
Rory Lancman, former
state Supreme Court
Justice Greg Lasak, public
defender Tiffany Caban,
former Queens prosecutor
Mina Malik, former state
Attorney General’s Office
prosecutor Jose Nieves and
attorney Betty Lugo.
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John M. Ryan (l.), seen
here with Queens District
Attorney Richard A. Brown,
is the new acting chief
prosecutor for Queens.
Courtesy of Queens DA’s office
ing grades since the MTA
began making widespread
changes.
“We have been very focused
on improving our
bus service around the
city, and we thank the
Bus Turnaround Coalition
for that recognition,”
said Max Young, chief external
affairs officer for
MTA. “Despite the progress
we’ve made, we have
an enormous amount of
work to do on this issue,
in order to improve speeds
and reliability to help riders
get around the city. In
order to achieve this goal
we need congestion pricing
to pass, in order to reduce
traffic on the streets and
provide additional technological
and infrastructure
improvements.”
The Transit Center’s
report card is released
every year and this time,
as a transportation coalition
and City Councilman
Mark Levine presented the
results on the steps of City
Hall on March 6, it showed
30 fewer bus routes received
a failing grade over
the year before.
City Councilman Barry
Grodenchik represents a
transit desert and has been
vocal on expanding and improving
bus options.
“I represent the only city
council district with no train
service, so buses are absolutely
critical,” Grodenchik
said. “Faster, more frequent,
more reliable bus service
would make a tremendous
difference in the quality of
life of so many residents of
Eastern Queens.”
But Levine warned that
bus riders are not out of the
woods yet, even with the
widespread improvements.
“Unlike the subway system,
major pieces of bus
infrastructure are controlled
by the City,” Levine
said. That’s why I have
been fighting for the City
to drastically increase the
pace of transit signal priority
(TSP) technology for the
past two years — a fight we
recently won as the Mayor
announced DOT would be
implementing TSP in 300
intersections a year for the
next five years. But as this
report card makes clear, we
still have more to do.”
The Q52 route was subject
to improvements in
2016 as the city Department
of Transportation began
seeking feedback on the
implementing bus lanes,
eliminating passenger car
turn lanes and even set a
bus stop at Jamaica Avenue
in the median.
Protests ensued and
the changes were made regardless,
but studies from
DOT show that a year after
the changes to the 11-mile
route, commute times are
down by about 9 to 10 percent
and about 80 percent of
people prefer the new service
to the old.
The Transit Center measured
bus speed, which
averages about 6 miles an
hour, and bunching, another
term for when buses
are delay then multiple
come at once. Bunching has
shown to have been greatly
reduced by the use of
bus lanes.
Reach reporter Mark
Hallum by e-mail at mhallum@
schnepsmedia.com or
by phone at (718) 260–4564.
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