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July 27, 2005 / Features

Business, Energy Pros Hold Power Summit In Queens

With all eyes then on the bid for Queens to host an Olympic Village for the world More...

Avella To Miller: Pay Back The City For The $1.6M ‘Campaign–Like Mailing’

By John Toscano

City Councilmember Tony Avella has strongly recommended that Council Speaker Gifford Miller reimburse the New York City treasury for a $1.6 million mailing done by Miller at city expense. More...

Forest Hills’ Salonger, Elmhurst Dairy Get Awards Awards

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Small Business Services (SBS) Commissioner Robert W. Walsh on July 11 presented honors to 15 recipients of the 2005 New York City Neighborhood Achievement Awards at Gracie Mansion. More...

Vallone Calls For Lower Parking Rates In Steinway Bridge Area

City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr., is demanding that the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) lower the parking rates for all Steinway Street business area parking lots and street meters. More...

Maria Farenga, Wife Of Farenga Funeral Home Head, Dies

Maria Farenga, wife of Felix Farenga of Joseph Farenga and Sons Funeral Home, Inc., Astoria, died Monday, July 18, 2005 of natural causes. She was 73 years old. More...

5 New Members Join CEC 30

by richard gentilviso

After a sometimes shaky More...

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City Gets $20M Back For NYPD-UN Service

New York City will be reimbursed $19.6 million in back payments it is owed by the federal government for money spent by the New York Police Department to protect the United Nations, according to Congressmember Gary Ackerman (D More...

The Importance Of An Advance Directive

Terry Schiavo raised consciousness across the country as to why it is important to have a health care proxy no matter what your age. More...

Low Colon Cancer Screen Rates Risk 1 Million Lives

In March, the American Cancer Society reported that more Americans aged 50 and older are more likely to know the name of a judge on More...

Listen To Your Doctor For A Healthy Heart

D espite heightened awareness about high blood pressure and its contributions to serious cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke, many patients are still not taking appropriate action to treat their condition. More...

Long Island City—A Progress Report

By John Maltz

A lot has happened since my first report on Long Island City More...

Web Site Offers Volunteer Projects For Kids

Are your children bored during the long, hot summer and looking for something to do? How can parents find meaningful summer activities for their children? There More...

Second In Bone Series Is A Winner

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Vallone Pans Video Game That Glorifies Graffiti

City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. has accused a video game publisher of More...

3 New Condo Developments To Rise On LIC’s East River Waterfront

Three old and decrepit buildings on the East River waterfront in Long Island City have been sold and are to be replaced by as many high-rise condominiums. More...

Queens Family Court To Become Condos, Rentals

by linda j. wilson

According to an announcement from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Dermot Company has been named to acquire and develop the two-acre site of the former Queens Family Courthouse at 89th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard in Jamaica. More...

James ‘Jimmy’ Zisimopoulos, Electrician, Dies After Stabbing

James More...

Woodside-Maspeth Zoning Plan Draws Residents’ Ire

By Thomas Cogan

The Department of City Planning has been studying Woodside and Maspeth for the past few months, and now intends to issue a balanced zoning plan before this year is ended. A meeting about the study and the plan, held in the school cafeteria of St. More...

Queens Blood Emergency Continues

Blood donations still lag 25 percent behind what is required to adequately serve patients in 13 Queens area hospitals, forcing New York Blood Center, the majority blood supplier in the New York/New Jersey community, to issue its second emergency appe More...