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Community groups to host potluck, sleepout in Long Island City to protest One LIC neighborhood plan
Community groups to host potluck, sleepout in Long Island City to protest One LIC neighborhood plan

Sept. 9, 2024 By Shane O’Brien 

A coalition of community organizations dedicated to bringing affordable housing to Long Island City will hold a community sleepout on Saturday to propose an alternative to the city’s One LIC neighborhood plan.

Western Queens Community Land Trust, LIC Coalition and the Hunters Point Community Coalition will hold the sleepout at 44th Drive and Vernon Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 14, starting at 5:30 p.m. and continuing through sunrise on Sept. 15.

The sleepout is also a potluck event, with attendees encouraged to bring a dish to share or an instrument to jam with. Anyone planning on sleeping overnight is advised to bring a tent and bedding to sleep in.

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Urgent manhunt underway for suspect who sexually assaulted a young girl after abducting her from a Queens Village supermarket: NYPD

A manhunt is underway in southeast Queens for a sexual predator who allegedly kidnapped a 9-year-old girl at a Queens Village supermarket while she was grocery shopping with her grandmother on Thursday evening.

The abduction occurred inside the Key Food at 213-22 Jamaica Ave. just after 7:20 p.m., when the grandmother went to the bathroom. The sexual deviant approached the youngster and lured her out of the store and into his vehicle, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.