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The recently adopted 2005 budget agreement between the mayor and the City Council contains an allocation from the council of $1.3 million in funding to subsidize a Disabled Accessible Taxi Program. The budget document states that the fund’s purpose is “to promote and encourage equal accessibility of More ... Free Soft Rock Concert In Astoria Park The Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (LDC) Waterfront Concert Series is in full swing and everyone is invited to come to Astoria Park to enjoy some great music free of charge. Soft Rock Night featuring Head Games will be held Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will take place in A More ...
by john toscano Congressmember Carolyn Maloney says that according to a new report on President George W. Bush’s proposed Social Security changes, many of her constituents would suffer benefit cuts amounting to billions of dollars. More ... 2nd ‘Discover Restaurant Week’ Comes To Queens by richard gentilviso The Olympics may have passed on New York City in 2012 but gold medal dining comes to Queens this fall with “Discover Restaurant Week”. From September 19 through 23, participating restaurants throughout the borough will again offer fine meal packages at the fixed price of $19.64 in celebration of the More ... Phase 2 Of BQE Repair Project Begins By Thomas Cogan Phase 2 of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway repair project, entailing repairs on the roadway from 61st Street to Broadway, has begun and is expected to last until December 2008. Last week, the first of what will be many meetings took place at the White Castle field office on 34th Avenue in Jackson Hei More ... MTA’s 5-Year Capital Spending Plan OK, But Transportation Bond Act Needs Voters’ Approval In Nov. By John Toscano Although the state legislature approved the Metropolitan Transportation Authority five-year capital construction and maintenance plan last week, in November voters will still have to approve spending about $3 billion more to give the go-ahead to future transit projects. More ...
MetroCard buses and vans will make scheduled stops in Queens during the month of July. More ... The Federation of Italian American Organizations of Queens Presents ITALIAN NIGHTS 2005 July 20 Salvatore Marchese: Sicily in Poetry and Music; Jannah; Gaetano Fava Performs All The Best of Italian Pop More ...
MetroCard buses and vans will make scheduled stops in Queens during the month of July. More ... The Federation of Italian American Organizations of Queens Presents ITALIAN NIGHTS 2005 July 20 Salvatore Marchese: Sicily in Poetry and Music; Jannah; Gaetano Fava Performs All The Best of Italian Pop More ... Cross Island YMCA Honors 4 Neighborhood Heroes The Cross Island YMCA celebrated its fifth annual Be A Neighborhood Hero dinner–dance and recognized four individuals for their dedication and contributions to the community. This annual celebration recognizes the vital partnership that exists between the Cross Island YMCA, the business world and th More ...
On June 25, Student Council members from Holy Cross, St. Agnes, The Mary Louis Academy and St. Francis Prep high schools pooled their talent and resources to host a barbecue for children at St. Mary’s Hospital in Bayside. While students entertained the young patients and their caregivers with music More ... Vallone, Other Officials Sound Off On Lack Of Subway Security by john toscano Criticism of the MTA’s failure to devise a subway security plan, unleashed in the wake of the London bombings, continued last week amid reports that the beleaguered agency was finally getting its act together. More ... Flushing Financial Head Michael Hegarty Retires Flushing Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: FFIC), the parent holding company for Flushing Savings Bank, FSB, on June 30 announced that Michael J. Hegarty retired as president and chief executive officer. Hegarty, who will continue as a director of the company and the bank, joined the company as executi More ... CALDC Children’s Series In Full Swing The “Summer Fun” Children’s Series presented by the Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) will continue on July 26 in Athens Square Park, 30th Avenue and 30th Street, and on Wednesday, July 20 at the Dutch Kills Playground, 36th Avenue and Crescent Street. The performances start at 10: More ...
Mets infielder Chris Woodward and relief pitcher Royce Ring recently read to neighborhood children at the Corona branch of the Queens Borough Public Library to help kick off the library’s Summer Reading Club. Shown (l. to r.) are Borough President Helen Marshall, Woodward, Ring and Library Director More ... On the brief side... Maloney Addresses North Cyprus Travel, Macedonia Issues Congressmember Carolyn Maloney (D–Queens/Manhattan) and House colleagues recently expressed concern to the Bush Presidential Administration over the legality of an airport in Northern Cyprus used by United States citizens on trips to that country. More ... Astoria Resident Says: Who Wants To Produce A Play With Winnings From A TV Show Kathleen Warnock, an Astoria resident, appeared on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” which helped her to fund her new play “Grieving for Genevieve” opening at the Jewel Box Theater, 312 W. 36th St., 4th Floor, Manhattan at the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theater Festival More ...
After a decade of planning, getting funding, purchase and demolition, and a huge amount of infrastructure preparation, last Wednesday morning City Councilmember Helen Sears (D-Jackson Heights), Borough President Helen Marshall, Assemblymembers Ivan Lafayette (D–Jackson Heights) and Margaret Markey ( More ...
The East River , by The Greater Astoria Historical Society, with Erik Baard, Thomas Jackson and Richard Melnick, Images of America series, Arcadia Publishing, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $19.99, 128 pp., softcover. More ...
“I read in the newspaper there is a Greek Night in Mattituck. I took my family and came to enjoy the night,” said Dimitris Meimarakis of Staten Island who was visiting relatives in Orient, L.I. Over 2,000 persons attended the event Saturday evening, July 2, at the Transfiguration of Christ Church i More ...
Ge t into a conversation with a longtime Queens resident and youíre likely to discover a former subscriber of the Long Island Star Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. A banner across the Star Journal masthead reminded readers that th More ... |
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