A dance studio, a gift-buying service, a map-based hiring platform, an artisanal chocolate company, and an E- bike share program were announced as winners of the 2025 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge during a special event at Resorts World New York City in South Ozone Park on Wednesday, May 7. Each entity will receive…
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Jan
The Queens Economic Development Corporation is happy to announce that Ben Guttmann will succeed Seth Bornstein as Executive Director on July 1, 2025. Bornstein joined QEDC as a program manager in 1979 after working for two Borough Presidents. He helped coordinate the borough’s first commercial revitalization programs which led to the founding of many local…
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Save the Date! Queens Economic Development Corporation and Queens Tourism Council proudly announce that Queens Taste 2025 is set for the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Tuesday, May 13, from 6 pm to 9 pm. In other words, get ready for everything from crunchy to creamy, delectable to delightful,…
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Traditional Queens met Modern Queens with tremendous results recently. The Instagram account Astoria Storefronts posted a video about the borough’s oldest bakery on Dec. 2 – and it went viral. The roughly-90-second clip about La Guli Pastry Shop had accrued more than 234,000 views, 8,500 likes, 480 comments and 4,800 shares as of Christmas Eve….
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#Newsflash | QEDC Forms a New Partnership with Witness to Mass Incarceration. They Launch Programs to Help the Formerly Incarcerated
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Looking to help justice-involved individuals, create jobs, and provide services and products, Queens Economic Development Corporation has joined forces with Witness to Mass Incarceration, a nonprofit that serves individuals affected by the legal system and their family members. As such, WITNESS Founder and Executive Director Evie Litwok is now QEDC’s Director of Reentry Services. Working…
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Nov
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Every year, the Queens Economic Development Corporation and Queens Tourism Council produce a printed calendar. Past themes include Arts, Restaurants, Sports, and the World’s Fair. Well, the new year is around the corner…and so is the 2025 calendar. The theme? Off The Beaten Path! Each month features a large photo of a Queens spot that’s…
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Oct
Bring your energy and good spirits. You’ll receive balloons, cowbells, pompoms, rattles, and whistles. Various borough nonprofits have joined forces to organize a Queens Cheering Station to support TCS NYC Marathon participants as they cruise down 44th Drive near 21st Street in Long Island City on Sunday, Nov. 3, starting at about 10 am and…
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Death doesn’t come with old age, it comes with being forgotten, according to Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Queens Economic Development Corporation’s fourth annual Día de los Muertos ceremony unites two worlds — the living and the spiritual — to honor the dearly departed in Corona Plaza on Friday, Nov. 1. To run from 6…
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QEDC to Offer Free Home Improvement Contractor Training Course Online in English and Spanish
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Oct
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The Queens Economic Development Corporation is ready to offer its highly successful Home Improvement Contractor Training course online three times over the next three months. It’s free and available in English and Spanish. LaGuardia Community College Procurement Technical Assistance Center Director Edgar Hernandez, who has been teaching HICT for more than 11 years, will lead…