CIANA is excited to be on the ballot for this year’s Participatory Budgeting cycle in District 22! Residents can vote to allot $20,000...

On March 5, Emira Habiby Browne, CIANA’s Founder and CEO took one final look at our now-empty Newtown Avenue office. After 15 years...

Updated October 13, 2025 Long before Astoria was called Astoria, a creek known by the local Indigenous peoples as Sunswick traveled northward from what is now Queens Plaza, up the present-day route of 21st Street, and opened into the East River, where Socrates Sculpture Park stands today. The Indigenous inhabitants of the land surrounding Sunswick Creek were displaced as European colonists, and later on, Americans, settled in the area. The land itself suffered, too. Beginnin

On March 25, 2022, CIANA hosted a Test and Trace Day of Action in Astoria, Queens. Beginning late Friday morning and continuing all...

Last Friday, August 13, CIANA hosted a Day of Action in Astoria, where we marked the upcoming school year by handing out backpacks to...