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by richard gentilviso Back at P.S. 151 in Woodside where he attended as a child, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein recalled, “I was on this [auditorium] stage when I was in the fourth grade, playing the clarinet.” Smiling, Klein said, “I played a solo and the teacher told me that would be my last performance.” More ...
Fireworks Drawings, abstract works by New York artist Rosemarie Fiore that use exploded fireworks as their medium, are being exhibited as part of the Doral Bank Art Program at the bank’s Park Avenue branch, 387 Park Ave. South at 27th Street, Manhattan, through September. Branch hours are Monday, Tu More ... Wager: CALDC Concerts Will Go On This Summer Thanks to the cooperation of the city Department of Parks and Recreation and Queens Commissioner of Parks Dorothy Lewandowski, all indications are that the waterfront concert series, sponsored by the Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) and held for the past 22 years on the lawn of th More ...
by richard gentilviso City Councilmember John Liu warned a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plan to run trains along a section of the “L” line in Brooklyn with a computerized system will be tested in Queens as well. “The number 7 [Flushing] line is next,” Liu said at the May 9 meeting of Community Board 7. More ...
Assemblymember Jose Peralta has called on the MTA to deal with a serious health risk for children resulting from pigeon droppings at three No. 7 line stations along Roosevelt Avenue in Corona and Elmhurst. More ...
By Thomas Cogan The Community Board 1 cabinet meeting for the month of May was held not at its usual site, the commissary at the Kaufman Astoria Studios, but at the New York Center for Rehabilitative Care on 21st Street in Astoria. Among the concerns expressed were health and aging, though probably the subjects als More ...
by john toscano The always active Long Island City real estate market will be welcoming a new player soon when Reckson Associates Realty Corp., completes its purchase of the 50-story landmark Citibank Tower. More ...
The third annual JaM Foundation held its fundraiser this past Friday, May 13, at Renaissance of Astoria located at 22-34 21st St. The Johnny and Mikey Katsimatides Foundation For Life (JaM) was created to help charitable organizations. It was named for and inspired by the tragic loss of two brothers More ...
Nikki Gioia of Woodside, proprietor of Nunziato Florist on Roosevelt Avenue for more than half a century and the matriarch of a close-knit family, has died. She was 86 years old. More ...
Under a clear blue sky veterans and their friends and families gathered at the monument to World War I dead on Shore Boulevard in Astoria Park May 14 to celebrate that the names of more than 100 veterans of subsequent wars have been engraved on pavers that will one day line a walk leading to the mon More ...
When Hitler invaded Warsaw, Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, leader of the Lubavitcher Jews, was among the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the besieged city. Surrounded by death, fire, starvation, and brutality, plagued by ill health, and a target for the SS, the Rebbe seemed unlikely to surv More ... |
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