Press Releases

Pheffer Amato Hosts Flood Prep Consults for Howard Beach

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This past Wednesday, August 9th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Howard Beach) hosted the first of a series of consultation sessions at her Howard Beach office for Howard Beach residents with representatives from Neighborhood Housing Services...

Pheffer Amato Statement on the Violence in Charlottesville

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“Any American elected official would be remiss to ignore Charlottesville. The ugly display of hate Friday and Saturday cuts to the core of who we are as a society. South Queens is a diverse and loving community, and we unite to condemn hate and violence....

Pheffer Amato Takes Winning Cat, Sugar, to Cause for Paws

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This past Sunday, August 13th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) took her cat Sugar to the “Cause for Paws” fundraiser for the Noah’s Ark Animal Rescue in Rockaway Park, NY. The Rescue was founded in 2015, and is described...

Pheffer Amato Celebrates Civil Rights Icon’s 90th Birthday

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) presented a proclamation this past Sunday to Lovette Glasgow, a retired schoolteacher, hero of the Civil Rights movement and the former President of the Rockaway NAACP, in honor of Glasgow’s 90th...

Pheffer Amato MTA Oversight Testimony

Committeemembers and members of the New York City Council, My name is Stacey Pheffer Amato, and I serve as Assemblywoman for South Queens, including Howard Beach, Ozone Park, Ozone Park and the Rockaway Peninsula – possibly the most under-served...

Pheffer Amato Pushes DOT on Safety of Lindenwood Triangle

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Howard Beach) met this past week with the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT), along with State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., NYC Councilmember Eric Ulrich, the Howard Beach-Lindenwood Civic Association, and...

Pheffer Amato Honors Fifty-Year Volunteer Firefighter

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This past Saturday, August 5th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Broad Channel) presented an official New York State Assembly Resolution honoring Edwin F Wilmarth, Jr., who today turned 70 years old and on Saturday marked 50 years with the Broad...

Pheffer Amato: Ferry Shouldn’t Double-Charge Reduced Fare

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) today called on NYC's Economic Development Corporation, which administers the new Citywide Ferry, to immediately switch from a proprietary-only fare system to honoring NYC MetroCards, so that senior...

Pheffer Amato Encourages Attendance at Wind Power Forum

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) today announced, and encouraged her constituents to attend, an upcoming open house on the NYC Offshore Wind Master Plan, at the Peninsula Branch of the Queens Public Library on Monday, August 14th,...

Pheffer Amato Starts School Supply Drive Monday at Office

This coming Monday, August 7th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) will start a two-month back-to-school supply drive at her district office, 95-16 Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Beach. The drive will collect basic supplies, such...

Pheffer Amato Congratulates Precincts on National Night Out

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) today congratulated the 100th, 101st and 106th Precincts on a highly successful National Night Out Against Crime (NNO), held last night as part of the 34th annual celebration of the national event,...

Pheffer Amato Helps Resident with DDC-Damaged Property

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Over the past few weeks, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Broad Channel) met with Broad Channel resident Frank Harnisher, whose story has been covered in local media because the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) hired a contractor to...

Pheffer Amato Presents Award to Top-Selling Girl Scout

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Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Far Rockaway) met this past Tuesday, July 18th, with Jayda Crenshaw, a ten-year-old student from Far Rockaway, who sold 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies this past year and became the top seller in Queens County....

Pheffer Amato Helps Kick Off HBLC Movie Night

This past Friday, July 21st, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Howard Beach) attended a screening of The Sandlot at the Howard Beach - Lindenwood Civic Association's Movie Night in Charles Park. The movie night was jointly sponsored by the Howard...

Pheffer Amato Tours Site for Tele-Visiting Incarcerated Moms

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This past Monday, July 17th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Far Rockaway) did a walk-through of CCNY's video-visitation site for children with incarcerated parents at the Beach 41st Street Community Center, called A Vision for Tele-Visiting....

Pheffer Amato, Addabbo, Titus Meet with Chancellor Fariña

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This past Monday, July 17th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach), State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. (D-Ozone Park) and Assemblywoman Michelle Titus (D-Far Rockaway) met with NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña in Pheffer Amato’s...

Pheffer Amato Lauds JFK Plans, Urges Rail Line Inclusion

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Responding to Governor Cuomo’s $10 billion overhaul plan for JFK International Airport, for which a Request for Proposals was issued today, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) applauded the plan, which she called “absolutely vital...

Pheffer Amato Welcomes Mazzone Hardware, Successor to Brown’s Hardware, on Beach 116th

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This past Saturday, July 15th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Park) welcomed new owners Mazzone Hardware, to the space formerly occupied by Brown’s Hardware. Brown’s was a longtime Rockaway Peninsula institution that was irreparably...

Pheffer Amato Helps “Wet Down” Point Breeze Firetruck

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This past Saturday, July 15th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Breezy Point) helped “wet down” a new firetruck commissioned by the Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Department. In a “wetting down,” as practiced by VFDs across the United States,...

Pheffer Amato Hosts Kickoff of Org for Special Needs Families

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This past Saturday, July 15th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway Beach) hosted a community workshop for families with special-needs children. The workshop was run by a new community organization, Perfect Piece of the Puzzle, founded by...