October 1, 2003 RSS feed / Features

Monserrate Calls For More Cops After Gang Slay Reported

A suspected gang killing of a Corona man on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights two weeks ago has renewed calls for more cops from City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate and business owners in the area. More...

Gioia Is LaGCC

Commencement Speaker

City Councilmember Eric Gioia will play a dual role at the 31st commencement exercises of LaGuardia Community College on September 30 when he delivers the keynote address and accepts the college More...

N. Blvd. To Close

Friday, October 3 from 11 p.m. to Saturday October 4 11 a.m. Northern Boulevard will be fully closed to traffic east- and westbound between 68th and 64th Street. More...

Wheelchair Team Wins Softball Tourney

The Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association (EPVA) Mets, a wheelchair softball team co-sponsored by the Major League New York Mets and the EPVA, defeated the RIC Cubs 6-5 in the championship game of the third Major League Wheelchair Softball Tournamen More...

Major New Queens West Development On Pepsi Cola Site; Sign Will Be Saved

The sprawling 21-acre site in Hunters Point where the Pepsi Cola bottling plant operated for almost three quarters of a century will gradually give way to seven huge apartment towers beginning next August. More...

The Cut, Copy And Paste Two-Step (Cha, Cha, Cha)

Or, The Three Stooges of Word Processing. More...

Luxury Condo Planned

For Steinway Street

A 10-story mixed-use building with 108 one- and two-bedroom apartments and commercial and medical-professional space on the ground floor is set to rise on the site of the former Steinway Bus Company storage yard at the foot of Steinway Street, Gerald More...

District Ed Councils Meet With Dissatisfaction

During a public hearing held by the Department of Education (DOE) at Thomas A. Edison H.S. More...

Council Panel Finds Discount Rx Largely Inaccessible

A recent investigation of a panel headed by City Councilmember Eric Gioia, chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Investigations found that the City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) prescription fee waiver program is inaccessible to pa More...

Ask the Public

Advocate Betsy Gotbaum

My son was erroneously assigned to a far-away high school, but his zoned school is near our house. This happened because his junior high school had an incorrect home address. More...

Olympic Village

Design Contest Set

The design for the 2012 Olympic Village on the Queens West development site in Hunters Point will be decided by an international architectural competition, deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff, founder of NYC 2012, the organization spearheading the effort to b More...

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