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Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown entered to applause at the February meeting of the Astoria Civic Association, where he was the evening More ... Taking sharp issue with Queens Borough President Helen Marshall for supporting a spa to be included in a new small hotel to be built in College Point, City Councilmember Tony Avella says the community will have a hard fight to defeat the proposal and Marshall More ... Police Officer Joseph Faivus, who arrested a graffiti vandal whose tag defaced more than 60 properties in Astoria, and Lieutenant Joseph Gulotta, who has executed 12 search warrants in the 114th Precinct, resulting in the confiscation of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit goods and several ar More ... Congressmember Carolyn Maloney hailed a new federal report released last week which will send More ... Make tax season less taxing all the way around. Free individual income tax counseling for low-income older adults is available at several library locations. Counselors trained by the IRS provide assistance in completing the 2005 personal income tax return as well as others such as the National Assoc More ... Operation Losing Proposition proved just that for eight individuals on Friday, February 10. Starting at 11:30 p.m., under the supervision of Special Operations Lieutenant Joseph Gulotta, a Losing Proposition operation with undercover, trained police officers was conducted in the vicinity of Queens P More ... pride and the coming together of different nationalities from all over the world. The Olympic torch signifies an inextinguishable flame bridging history, the present and the future. This concept of the global village, uniting all corners of the world and linking past, present and generations yet unb More ... Saving energy and enhancing the environment were the themes of the January borough board meeting. Max Joel, Queens Botanical Garden capital project assistant, updated the board on the garden More ... Cartridge World, the largest retailer of cartridge refilling services in the world, has opened its newest franchise location in Astoria. The store, located at 36-09 Ditmars Blvd., opened in December and is bringing the unique cartridge refilling concept to consumers and businesses in the Astoria com More ... By mandate of the City Charter, borough boards hold a public hearing every year to establish budget priorities, even though services and entitlements are mostly fixed into the $52.5 billion city preliminary budget released by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on January 31. Almost 200 speakers testified befor More ... A restaurant owner who came to Land Use hearings in Borough Hall seeking approval of the decks he had added to his establishment left with promises of assistance for dealing with a noise problem that would seem to be no fault of his as well. More ... Lanes will be closed and parking restricted on the Grand Central Parkway, Astoria Boulevard and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway for the weekends of February 18 to 20 and February 25 to 27 in order to demolish the southern and northern portions of the Steinway Street Bridge as part of its reconstructi More ... |
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