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by john toscano A sexual assault on a 9-year-old girl in Astoria Park last August has led to legislation sponsored by City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. requiring the police to report all major felony crime complaints in the city’s 20 largest parks. More ... Fake Nike Products, Cash Seized, Two Arrested by linda j. wilson Counterfeit goods bearing the Nike trademark, including backpacks and clothing, and $746 in United States currency were seized and an Asian couple arrested when police of the 114th Precinct under the direct supervision of Precinct Commander Deputy Inspector Brian McCarthy and of Lieutenant James Gul More ...
The New York City Fire Department uses facilities at the Fort Totten Army Reserve base to practice firefighting skills. Chief Paul Mannix of Battalion 53 while supervising the firefighter practice drills at Fort Totten, said. “There are a series of buildings that are going to be demolished soon so More ...
by john toscano In the wake of the killings of two New York City police officers, Governor George Pataki and legislative leaders acted with uncharacteristic speed to stiffen gun control laws and enact legislation intended to curb violence against police officers. More ... Snow Fooling Around: Preparing For Snowstorms Makes Good Sense By John J. Doherty Commissioner of Sanitation In each of the last three winters, New York has been pummeled by an average of 40-plus inches of snow--the highest accumulation in recorded history. These were tough years, but the city Department of Sanitation was equal to the challenge. More ...
Assemblymember Margaret Markey (D–Maspeth) is supporting new legislation immediately stopping sex offenders from being removed from the state registry before stronger Megan’s Law regulations are enacted (A 9082). More ...
By John Toscano Jeanine Pirro did the expected last week when she dropped out of next year’s race against United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and decided instead to run for the state attorney general’s seat. More ... On the brief side... Maloney Gets Back The $125 M Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, who has campaigned to restore $125 million for Ground Zero workers which President George W. Bush wanted to eliminate from the budget, reported success last week as the House voted to include the funds in the 2006 budget. More ...
More than 150 members of five area bar associations and students at the St. John’s University School of Law attended the Queens County Bar Association’s annual holiday party December 6. Party-goers brought toys to be donated to Forestdale, Inc., a nonprofit foster care agency in Queens. More than $ More ...
By Gloria Sanders Ou r next stop brings us to 111th Street, Roosevelt Avenue, where the journey of Flushing Meadows –Corona Park continues. As you get off the stop and walk down the street you come to the many cultural institutions offered in the Park. The N.Y. Hall of Science, the only hands-on science and technolog More ... Queens Botanical Garden Grows, Even In Winter While winter officially began last week, the Queens Botanical Garden is looking forward to spring. Here's a sampling of what’s blooming at QBG from January through March. More ... Bd. 1 Eyes Dancing Girls Warily by richard gentilviso While the New York City Council reached agreement on more stringent restrictions for loud music at clubs and bars under a new noise code, Community Board 1 met for the last time this year at Astoria World Manor on December 20. More ... Truck Traffic To Go Up 50 Percent By 2020 by linda j. wilson “As bad as truck traffic in Queens is now, there will be at least 50 percent more by 2020,” Teresa Toro, Tri-State Transportation Campaign New York City campaign coordinator, told the borough board at the board’s December meeting in Borough Hall last week. “Less than 50 percent of the city’s freigh More ...
By Diana Sanders Although the first subway system was built in London in 1863, it was not until 1904 that a subway system opened in New York City. Since then, mass transit usage has increased in unprecedented numbers. In 2005 moving an average seven million passengers on a single weekday, New York City Transit impac More ... the p u l p i t Atonement Lutheran: •Sunday, 10:15 a.m., services and Sunday school in English; noon, service in Spanish; 2 p.m., service in Korean; 5 p.m., service in Telegu. More ...
The Queens Historical Society invites visitors to take a trip back to old Corona through a slide lecture using vintage photographs to recreate Corona’s past. The talk, “The Story of Corona”, will be presented on Sunday, January 8 at 2:30 p.m. in the historic Kingsland Homestead, located at 143-35 37 More ... Programs Complement Noguchi Museum Exhibit The Noguchi Museum presents two special programs in conjunction with the exhibition “The Imagery of Chess Revisited”: The “Second Sundays” program for January is a discussion with guest curator Larry List on Sunday, January 8 at 3 p.m.. Six days later, on Saturday, January 14 from 2 to 5 p.m., Wom More ...
Carrying on a tradition begun in the 1890s by author-photographer and reformer Jacob Riis, a one-time Richmond Hill resident, the Richmond Hill Historical Society held its annual Christmas Caroling event recently. Society members went caroling in the neighborhood, bringing holiday cheer to the commu More ...
by Diana Sanders Welcome to the 21st century, where computers rule, and everything analog or manual is a thing of the past. It is the age of everything digital. HD TV, DVDs, the iPod, the BlackBerry, the cell phone and, somewhere in between, the Internet. More ...
On Sunday, November 20, children in the Joy Program of the Greek Orthodox Shrine Church of St. Nicholas in Flushing, with the help of adult volunteers headed by Nicholas Zillas, took the clothes accumulated through the clothing drive they held this autumn to the St. Albans Domiciliary Care Program f More ... KIDSCLASSICS II Opens With ‘Hear The Organ’ Colden Center and Goliard Concerts have once again teamed up to co-present KIDSCLASSICS II, the innovative series designed to stimulate youngsters’ interest in classical music. “Hear the Organ” which opens the series on January 15 at 3 p.m. in the intimate and acoustically perfect setting of the LeF More ... Partnerships For Parks Has Earth, Arbor Day Grants Partnerships for Parks, a joint program of the City Parks Foundation and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, works to increase community support for and involvement in parks throughout New York City. Founded in 1995, Partnerships works to start, strengthen, and support neighborhood More ... 6th Starbucks Joy Drive Aids Hospitalized Children St arbucks Coffee Company invites customers to join our partners (employees) in lifting the spirits of seriously ill children through the Starbucks Holiday Angels Joy Drive. Now through December 25, Starbucks stores across the United States will collect new, unwrapped books and toys for distributio More ... Quintet Of The Americas Holds Concert At Langston Hughes Th e Quintet of the Americas and the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center will present a special concert of American classical and jazz, as well as Latin music on Saturday, January 7, 3:30 p.m. at the library and cultural center, 100-01 Northern Blvd. in Corona. More ...
By Diana Sanders Th e celebration of the New Year in New York City has been a tradition for generations. Elaborate gatherings and extravagant parties just as Christmas Week comes to a close are looked forward to by many people. New Year’s Eve, especially, is celebrated in almost every nation around the world, each w More ...
Evrytania is an area of mountain beauty. Winter sports such as skiing, walking, rafting, kayaking, mountain biking are the main tourist attraction. The prefecture of Evrytania is known as the “Switzerland” of Greece. Karpenissi is the capital of the prefecture, on the southerin slopes of Timphristo More ... |
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