This past Sunday, April 9th, the New York State budget negotiation process was finally completed, with the Assembly, the Senate and the Governor coming to an agreement on the budget. By the end of Sunday, both houses had passed the 2017-2018 budget and...

This past Tuesday, March 28th, at the urging of Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, the US Army Corps of Engineers towed an 80-foot beam that had become lodged in the shoreline back out to sea. The beam had gotten snagged and had been partially attached...

"Because a new budget deal could not be reached by this past Friday, today I am voting to pass a two-month extension of the current FY budget. "Our government employs about a quarter million hard-working men and women, and those people have families...

This past Friday, March 24th, the Joseph P. Addabbo Health Center hosted a Women of Power Event as part of their Women’s HERstory Month celebration. Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato spoke to the excitement she feels at carrying on the legacy of her...

This past Friday, March 24th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato hosted a free, mobile breast cancer screening clinic in honor of her late friend, Elaine Freeburg. The mobile clinic served 30 women with MRIs and critical breast exams by call-ahead appointment,...

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato today won her first legislative victory, and became the first Freshman Assemblyperson of 2017 to pass legislation, as the New York State Assembly unanimously approved A.5165, a bill to make online information more accessible...

This past Sunday, March 26th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) partnered with the Lower East Side Ecology Center at the Rockwood Park Jewish Center to host a e-waste recycling event, allowing residents to drop off their TVs, cellphones,...

"Two of the first constituents I spoke with after taking office were Phil and Cathie Vetrano, who at that point had had to wait six long months past their daughter's murder for any leads to turn up. Instead of turning inward, the Vetranos made Karina's...

In a joint statement issued today following the decision to co-locate a seventh school inside Q410, a school building in the joint area of their district, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) and State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. (D-Ozone...

Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) introduced a bill this past week to make St. Patrick’s Day an official school holiday in New York State. Citing the high percentage of Irish residents in her district, the centrality of Irish culture to...

This past Sunday, March 19th, 2017, at the Legislative Breakfast of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) presented her mother, Audrey Pheffer, former Assemblywoman and now Queens County...

This past Thursday, March 9th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway), Borough President Melinda Katz and community leaders were briefed by officials from the City’s Build-It-Back program as part of a March 9th meeting of the Borough President’s...

This past Sunday, March 12th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) was honored to provide corned beef for, and to have an opportunity to speak at, a lunch for Veterans from the St. Albans Veterans’ Affairs Center, held at the Veterans of...

This past Friday, March 10th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) was given a tour of the Joseph P. Addabbo Health Center in Arverne by Marjorie Hill, the CEO of Addabbo Health. The Addabbo Center is a full-service Community Health Center,...

This past Sunday, March 12th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) attended a Purim Party at the West End Temple in Neponsit. Between eating hamentaschen, spinning gragers and the Purim pageantry, the Assemblywoman and her daughter relished...

This past Thursday, March 9th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) was invited to speak at the Neponsit Adult Day Care Center. She spoke on the subject of Women’s History Month, telling the story of how she came to be a Member of the NYS...

This past Thursday, March 9th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) had the privilege of joining, and providing corned beef for, the Nativity Golden Age monthly seniors group at the Nativity-Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Ozone Park. This meeting...

This past Saturday, March 11th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) attended the Women’s Executive Committee of Queens County’s Ladies Luncheon, at Antun’s Catering in Queens Village. The event marked the hundred-year anniversary of...

Parent leaders from among the six schools already sited inside Building Q410 held a press conference with State Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) today, coming out strongly against the proposed collocation of a seventh school in the Q410...

State Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Rockaway) announced today, in partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, the NYC Department of Sanitation, Rockwood Park Jewish Center and Bayswater Jewish Center that her office will be hosting e-waste...