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Events & Activities
When: 6:30-8 PM
Where: Queens College Dining Hall, Room 122, 64-36 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367
Join NYPIRG for a discussion with the QueensLink team about a proposed M-line extension to connect North-South Queens!

QueensLink will provide much-needed access to subways and the Long Island Railroad, and improve connections to the rest of the city by extending the M train down the abandoned Rockaway Beach branch. The plan will also include bicycle paths, walking trails, and new parks along the 33-acre corridor, enhancing quality of life.

Attendees can enjoy some refreshments, learn more about this exciting new transit project in Queens, and enter our raffle for the chance to win a free weekly MetroCard!

We hope to see you there!
NYPIRG and our coalition partners held an Earth Day rally in support of the NY HEAT Act!

The NY HEAT Act is the top climate priority of New York’s environmental movement, with its promise of lower energy bills while eliminating massive subsidies to the fracked gas industry. As New Yorkers contend with the threats of climate change and rising costs of living, the rally highlighted the need for making energy more affordable while moving off of fossil fuels. Students joined advocates at City Hall to urge New York to pass this Earth Day friendly bill! 
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Reports & Features

The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) today announced that effective January 1, 2025, Megan Ahearn is its new Executive Director. Ms. Ahearn previously served as NYPIRG’s Program Director overseeing NYPIRG’s community and campus policy work. Ms. Ahearn succeeds Blair Horner and will be NYPIRG’s eighth Executive Director in its 50-plus year existence. Horner will remain on NYPIRG’s staff as its Senior Policy Advisor, primarily focusing on state government advocacy.

A coalition of civic organizations released a letter to the State Board of Elections identifying possible failures in state law mandating that colleges with dorms have polling places. The groups urged action to ensure compliance or to strengthen the law.

A coalition of civic groups today called on the New York State Board of Elections to review the state’s polling locations to see if colleges have on-campus polls as required under the law. The letter is in reaction to the results of a survey conducted by NYPIRG. NYPIRG analyzed 199 colleges (217 campuses, some colleges have multiple campuses) in New York State, of which 147 have dorms located on their premises. This review of the locations of polling places for college students living on-campus identifies a wide gap between those campuses that have dorms and the number that have polling places.

NYPIRG Statement on Recent Campus Protests

NYPIRG Releases “Small Claims, Small Changes: A Survey of Albany Small Claims Court 45 Years Later”

A NYPIRG report documenting a survey of litigants who participated in cases in the City of Albany Small Claims Court in 2021 shows the challenges facing consumers using the system.

Model United Nations and NYPIRG Co-host CUNY’s First Climate Summit at Queens College - The Knight News, February 26, 2024

NYPIRG Opens Free Store to BC Students - Brooklyn College Vanguard, February 23, 2024

NYPIRG survey indicates N.Y. students need more assistance with healthcare - The Daily Orange, February 20, 2024

Student advocate wins plum Albany internship - SUNY Cortland News, December 21, 2023