Local councilman focused on ‘direct results’ with record breaking-budget for...
QNS, June 20, 2018 In his first budget negotiation, Councilman Robert Holden said District 30 is receiving all-time highs of $7.4 million in capital funding along with an additional $2.85 million from...
View ArticleGlendale site may get new school, not shelter
Queens Chronicle, Sept. 20, 2018 It’s been four years since Glendale leaders and residents first proposed that the former factory at 78-16 Cooper Ave. be transformed into a school instead of a homeless...
View ArticleHolden introduces bills to address quality of life issues
Times Ledger, Oct. 6, 2018 City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Middle Village) is making good on a campaign promise to tackle quality of life issues affecting constituents in the southwest Queens...
View ArticleMaspeth auto body shop with history of violations has its towing license revoked
QNS, October 2, 2018 Finally, after numerous police reports and at Holden’s request, in February, the DCA began an investigation into American Auto Body. “I have been fighting for two decades against...
View ArticleAt least 20 correction officers injured in massive brawl at Bronx juvenile...
PIX11, October 3, 2018 City Councilman Bob Holden called the transition to Horizon “an ill-conceived plan.” Sources told PIX11 the officers were injured when breaking up a fight between residents of...
View ArticleCity Council approves rezoning for Madison Realty Capital’s Woodside rental...
The Real Deal, November 1, 2018 Zegen added that by working with local Council member Robert Holden, the local community and the Department of City Planning, his firm achieved “an overall great...
View ArticleQueens lawmaker’s bill to regulate curb cuts for driveways gets a committee...
QNS, November 28, 2018 The City Council’s Transportation Committee is reviewing a bill that Councilman Robert Holden sponsored which will require NYPD and the city Department of Buildings to...
View ArticlePols raise issue with report on SBS
Queens Chronicle, November 29, 2018 Councilman Bob Holden (D-Middle Village) is skeptical. “There is no doubt that the DOT could fudge the numbers to fit its narrative, so we deserve a report that is...
View ArticleNY small businesses say frequent film, TV productions are cutting into their...
CBS, December 18, 2018 The city says the industry brings hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions of dollars of revenue in each year. Councilman Robert Holden (R-30th) says the shoots need to be...
View ArticleCoping with racism as a kid and a couple
Queens Chronicle, November 12, 2014 Bob Holden and his pal Pete Savage were walking up Eliot Avenue in Middle Village one day in 1968 looking for girls — they were 16, what else would they be doing? —...
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