The Metropolitan Transportation Authority should switch to lung-safe chemical products when cleaning its vehicles and stations, state Senator John Sabini declared last week. More...

Targeting domestic violence in the growing immigrant communities in Queens, City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate secured $100,000 for grants to two local organizations. More...

City Councilmember John Liu, joined by colleagues Leroy Comrie and David Weprin, urged the Bloomberg mayoral administration last week to use some of the windfall profits from the recent taxi medallion auction to expand yellow taxicab service in commu More...

Thomas J. Manton, who passed away last Saturday at age 73, was a consummate gentlemen in both his personal llife as well as his public and political career, which spanned spanned half a century. More...

On Wednesday, July 19, businesses on Steinway Street had power and were encouraged by More...

Councilmember James F. Gennaro (DFresh Meadows) and Queens Library Director Thomas W. Galante unveiled the new roof for the Hillcrest Branch recently. The roof was made possible through $250,000 in funding from Gennaro. More...

As teaching evolution continues to make headlines, the New York Hall of Science and five other institutions are beginning a project to research how children acquire the concepts of biological evolution and look at new ways to engage children in explo More...

The Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) Waterfront Concert Series Concerts for the "big kids" will take place in Astoria Park between Shore Boulevard and 19th Street and the Hell Gate Bridge and Astoria Pool. More...

It used to be, on hot summer days and nights, in order to cool off we might go to an air-conditioned movie, or our More...

Learn about insects and join in the search for clues at The New York Hall of Science's exciting new Science Theater presentation "The Mysterious Miss Squito." This mixed-media theater presentation, one of the Hall's Bugged Out Science themed events, More...