Representative Crowley: New York: Elmhurst



	Congressman Joseph Crowley Fighting for the People of Elmhurst Providing for a better quality of life for Elmhurst residents, worked with Mayor Bloomberg to ensure that the KeySpan Gas Tanks Site became a City Park and not an industrial blight and big box store Protecting residents by fighting for $500,000 for traffic and safety improvements on Queens Boulevard Delivered $402,750 for the non-profit Elmcor Youth and Adult Activities for their ongoing renovations to their Job Center Secured $50,000 for Langston Hughes Library for the Homework Assistance Program (HAP), which provides assistance with completion of daily homework assignments, remediation in math, reading and language skills and gives kids a safe place to be in the afterschool hours Securing Federal funding for a study on the air and noise quality for Northwestern Queens, paying particular attention to the problems brought on by LaGuardia Airport as well as a study to look into the unique health concerns of urban women in Queens Delivering over $10 million in Federal funds for Flushing Bay and Creek Clean-up as well as continuing efforts to remove the "finger" dike in the Bay. Additionally, working with the City, State and Federal governments to open new Combined Sewerage Overflow tanks (CSO tanks) in both the Creek and Bay to permanently address the polluted run-off into this waterbody Successfully persuaded the VA to open a Veterans Outpatient Health Clinic in Sunnyside, at 41-03 Queens Boulevard, (Between 41st and 42nd Streets) Delivering $250,000 to Elmhurst Hospital for the purchase of new a Mammography Unit for Hospital Ensuring neighborhood kids have a place to go after school, secured $400,000 in Federal Funding for the Father Billini Center to create a computer training center Continuing the battle against West Nile Virus and disease-carrying mosquitoes, inaugurated two new, non-toxic, mosquito-killing machines at the Queens Hall of Science. These machines are EPA certified to be an effective and non-toxic method to kill mosquitoes
	Elmhurst Elmhurst is a neighborhood in northwestern Queens, bounded to the north by Roosevelt Avenue, to the east by Junction Boulevard, to the south by the Long Island Expressway, and to the west by the railroad tracks (Conrail). Established in 1652 as Newtown, the neighborhood was renamed in 1896 to avoid any association with the foul smells of Newtown Creek. The neighborhood became known for a fashionable housing development built between 1896 and 1910 by the Cord Meyer Development Company north of the railroad station. Developments were added between 1905 and 1930 in adjoining areas, including Elmhurst Square, Elmhurst South, Elmhurst Heights and New Elmhurst. After the Second World War, Elmhurst evolved into the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in the city – in the 1980s, immigrants from 112 countries settled there. Chinese immigrants accounted for one fifth of the total, and there were large numbers as well from Colombia, Korea, India, the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Pakistan, Peru and Guyana. There were also many construction projects, including the first enclosed shopping mall in Queens (1973) and several residential developments. Three colonial churches are still used, two of which are known for their historic graveyards. The local subway station is Grand Avenue – Newtown. Vincent Seyfried, Encyclopedia of New York City. Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson. New Haven, Yale University Press. 1995.