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City & State: The 2025 Queens Power 100
City & State: The 2025 Queens Power 100 | March 2025: City & State’s latest Queens Power 100 – written and researched by City & State in partnership with journalist Sean Okula – features the current Queens leaders who keep the borough on the move.
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Queens Community House is one of Queens’ largest nonprofits, with 40 sites boroughwide. Ben Thomases has led the organization since February 2015, and he’s not content to rest on his laurels. He recently completed a $16 million renovation on the Forest Hills Community Center. Thomases was co-chair of Queens Power, which advocated for the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus to be used for affordable housing, which the state has included in a new master plan for the facility. As a leader of the #JustPay movement, Thomases helped to obtain three years of cost-of-living raises for human services workers.
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