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Roslyn Nieves Named First Female President & CEO of Queens Public Television

Emmy-Nominated Media Executive Unveils Vision to Transform QPTV into One of New York City’s Premier Multimedia Production Centers

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RDRC 39th Annual Community Builders Awards Gala

We’re proud to join RDRC CEO & President Kevin Alexander and Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Renee McWilliams and the RDRC team!

Come join us as we celebrate our 39th Annual Community Builders Awards honoring:


  • Betty Leon, Esq., Chair of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center and Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School, and Board member of the New York Racing Association

  • Justin Rogers, President & CEO, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation;

  • Michael Gliner, Co-Owner, PIP Printing & Marketing Services of Inwood,

  • Sheldon Soloway, Co-Owner, PIP Printing & Marketing Services of Inwood,

  • Rachelle Antoine, Manager of External Affairs, JFK Redevelopment Program

  • Akshar Patel, Manager of External Affairs, JFK Redevelopment Program.

  • Dr. Susan Tanenbaum , Director of Nonprofit Opportunities, Office of the Queens Borough President

The event is RDRC’s only fundraiser to support our youth programs and services that provide deserving but underserved youth with afterschool tutoring, employment, internships, mentorship, trips, college placement assistance and scholarships.


Many of the youth participants we serve are families who cannot afford to pay for the extra academic supports, travel related expenses to attend college fairs, college tours, museums or cultural centers of learning that help shape their educational and career pathways. This years’ event will be hosted by the dynamic, Emmy award winning QPTV host & producer, Roslyn “Roz” Nieves, so you know the event will be high energy!


Al Harris Named Chairman of the QPCC Board of Directors

Queens Public Communications Corp. (QPCC), known as QPTV, announced on June 8 that Alfred (Al) Harris has been elected Chairman of the QPCC Board of Directors, succeeding John B. Haney, PhD. A retired public relations manager after 40 years with Con Edison — including 20 years representing the company in Queens — Harris also brings service as past chairman of the Flushing YMCA Board of Managers and past president of the Rotary Club of Flushing.

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Celebrate the 2026 Queens Carnival with QPTV!

COVID-19 Not-for-Profit Essential Services with Kevin W. Alexander, MPA President & CEO, RDRC

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COVID-19 Not-for-Profit Essential Services with Kevin W. Alexander, MPA President & Chief Executive Officer, Rockaway Development Revitalization Corporation

Rockaway Development & Revitalization Corporation (RDRC) was created in 1978 by a group of community residents, civic and religious leaders elected officials and business owners in response to serious social and economic decline that engulfed the entire Rockaway peninsula and Broad Channel region. This included deteriorated commercial areas, residential blight, substandard housing, and high rates of poverty, unemployment, and crime. Their call to action was to develop a comprehensive community development organization to serve the entire Rockaways region, an area that includes eleven distinct neighborhoods from Far Rockaway to Breezy Point covering an eleven-mile Rockaway peninsula. In order to achieve this lofty goal, the Founders strategically merged the organization to acquire the programs and services, necessary to achieve RDRC’s goal. In 1987, RDRC as we know it today is the result the consolidation of three (3) smaller agencies: Far Rockaway Revitalization Corporation, The Rockaway Local Development Corporation, and Arverne Hammels Holland Seaside Housing Corporation that previously served the eastern, western and central sections of the peninsula, respectively. The outcome of these mergers and program expansions was the creation of Rockaway’s first Peninsula-wide development organization, governed by a Board of Directors representing all major ethnic groups, businesses, institutions, and neighborhoods on the Peninsula. It also represented Rockaway’s first-ever professionally staffed, job placement and training service.

Since their inception, RDRC’s major priority has been to serve as a catalyst for the community’s revitalization by initiating community development activities, which remove barriers to economic growth, stimulate the local economy, and create jobs. RDRC’s multi-service programs enhance the quality and diversity of educational offerings for students, reduce the blight and neglect of neighborhoods, and assist residents in overcoming the community’s severe geographic and social isolation.

Watch this Zoom announcement as Kevin W. Alexander connects to discuss services that are available to the community as everyone navigates the changes in society as a result of COVID-19.