Queens
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ANDREW HEVESI WINS SPECIAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION Voters in Queens last night decided to send another son of state Comptroller Alan Hevesi to the state Legislature. In the 28th Assembly District in Queens, Democrat Andrew Hevesi, the 31-year-old son of the state comptroller, defeated Republican Anthony Como, a Queens assistant district attorney, in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Democrat Michael Cohen. With 95% of precincts reporting, Mr. Hevesi had 3,657 votes, or 58%, to 2,640 votes, or 42%, for Mr. Como.
Mr. Cohen, after winning easy re-election in November to the Assembly seat in Queens he had held since 1998, resigned March 14 “to see to my family obligations.”
The Assembly seat was considered safe territory for Democrats with more than 39,000 enrolled Democrats and fewer than 15,000 Republicans in the district.
Comptroller Hevesi’s older son, Daniel, had served in the state Senate from 1998-2002. Daniel Hevesi decided against running for a third term after district lines were redrawn in the wake of the 2000 Census. The comptroller served in the Assembly from 1971-93, when he was elected New York City comptroller. He was elected state comptroller in 2002. Going into yesterday’s special election, Democrats controlled 103 of the Assembly’s 150 seats.
– Associated Press
JETBLUE OPENS $45 MILLION MAINTENANCE HANGAR AT JFK Mayor Bloomberg cut the ribbon on a new $45 million, 140,000 square-foot maintenance hangar for JetBlue Airlines yesterday at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
“JetBlue’s success is a reflection of our city’s own revival during extremely challenging and uncertain times,” Mr. Bloomberg said. The mayor pointed out that a decade ago, many were “writing the obituary” for the airport in Queens.
The chief executive officer of JetBlue, David Neeleman, said the company chose New York because the area airports had “missed the low fare revolution.” Now that JetBlue has landed at JFK, it has made the airport one of the fastest growing in the world. JetBlue is the top carrier at JFK, accounting for 23% of the passengers that pass through the airport.
