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Marshall Hails Rev. King For His Efforts To ‘Bring About Peaceful Change’ by john toscano “More than 40 years after the historic March on Washington and two generations after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the late Dr. Martin Luther King continues to inspire and strengthen us,” declared Borough President Helen Marshall in announcing a celebration of the life and legacy of the slain civil More ...
Photo Austin H. Armitstead Florence Rebecca Bush, widow of Rev. Dr. Brookward Bush, holds citations conferred on her for initiating the annual commemorative scholarship breakfast at First Baptist Church, East Elmhurst in celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. More ...
Photo: Juliet Kaye The Hollis Presbyterian Church held a Martin Luither King Sunday Sabbath Worship with Councilmember Leroy Comrie as their Guest Speaker. Comrie quoted Dr. King, "We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing towards it: the process is not yet finished but it is going on More ... Celebrating King, Jr. Through Service For many Americans, Martin Luther King Day was “a day on,” not “a day off,” because people across the country honored Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and legacy through community service. More ...
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney last Thursday presented officials of the Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens with an oversized ceremonial check signaling a $1,090,000 federal appropriation for the expansion of the hospital’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and construction of patient parking facilities. The f More ...
by john toscano Wasting no time in keeping a campaign promise to change the way business is done in Albany, freshman Assemblymember Jimmy Meng from Flushing introduced a legislative reform package on his first day in office. More ...
by john toscano Borough President Helen Marshall and City Councilmember Eric Gioia announced almost half a million dollars in improvements to the Sunnyside Arch and the commercial corridors along Queens Boulevard, Greenpoint Avenue and 46th Street in Sunnyside. More ...
State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky recently measured nine inches of floodwater at the southwest corner of Parsons and Willets Point Boulevard and declared, “Enough is enough. The [city] Department of Environmental Protection has been promising to remedy this issue, but the flooding has become so bad th More ... Use Of Dollar Vans In Bus Strike Decried by richard gentilviso As the bus strike affecting 70,000 riders went into its second day last week, Borough President Helen Marshall criticized the city’s authorization of “dollar vans” to pick up stranded passengers along some of the affected routes in Queens. “It doesn’t help for the mayor to tell them [commuter vans] More ...
by linda j. wilson “Social Security is not an investment scheme—we don’t need to privatize it. Why should the brokers get a commission on what is supposed to be set aside for a person’s retirement?” Congressmember Carolyn Maloney said at the Community Board 1 District Cabinet last Thursday. Reforms to the Social Secur More ...
By John Toscano A Fire Department report on the Father’s Day 2001 fire in an Astoria hardware store that killed three firefighters reveals that there were shortcomings in important Fire Department building information that could have contributed to the tragic results. More ...
By Thomas Cogan The January luncheon meeting of the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce had no featured speaker and confined itself to comments from members. More ...
Julian Wager, president of the Steinway Business Improvement District, founding president of the Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) and advertising director of the More ...
by richard gentilviso Following an angry public demonstration protesting the placement of cell phone antennas atop a building directly across P.S. 122, Astoria, that was led by City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. and Assemblymember Michael Gianaris, the District 30 Community Education Council voted a resolution “condemn More ... |
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