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By John Toscano A bill requiring all public schools to provide translation services at certain meetings for non-English speaking parents in New York City, which was described by opponents as too costly and not necessary, was passed by the City Council yesterday. More ...
By Diana Sanders Although the holiday season is coming to a close and Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa have come and gone, shoppers are still shopping and taking advantage of the post-holiday sales, using popular gift cards and increasing merchandisers’ revenues. More ...
By Gloria Sanders Th e next stop on the No. 7 line after 111th Street-Corona is 103rd Street-Corona Plaza, where we enter a new neighborhood with a completely different culture and lifestyle. At this stop, the bustling streets intersecting Roosevelt Avenue are filled with shoppers and commuters, mostly blue collar, t More ... First Of Trilogy ‘Quadehar The Sorcerer’ Debuts Scholastic presents Book of Stars Part One: Quadehar the Sorcerer More ...
By John Toscano Efforts to establish a bank in the Queensbridge Houses complex in Long Island City have reached the negotiation stage and may not be far from becoming reality, according to public officials involved in the project. More ... 114th Police Precinct Blotter Wednesday, December 21: • A 20-year-old Hispanic man was observed on 46th Street between Broadway and 34th Avenue operating a vehicle with a defective brake light. Further investigation revealed the perpetrator was driving with a suspended driver’s license. He was charged with aggravated un More ... Crime Rate Continues To Reach New Lows Statewide Governor George E. Pataki announced that in the first six months of 2005, crime continued to drop to historic lows in New York state. Preliminary crime statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show New York with an estimated 0.4 percent decline in violent crimes--includi More ...
By John Toscano After Mayor Michael Bloomberg was sworn in to a second term at City Hall on Monday, he pledged to pursue a major housing program, to lock in the educational gains of his first administration, to campaign for more housing at Ground Zero and to join in a national campaign against illegal guns, all in More ...
Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) secured $275,000 in State funding for Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens to pay for a new CT scanner for the hospital’s imaging center. At a recent reception Gianaris presented Mt. Sinai Executive Director Caryn Schwab with a check for the machine, a Siemens Emo More ... On the brife side... Mayor Signs Vallone’s Anti-Graffiti Bill Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week signed into law a package of strong anti-graffiti legislation which had been sponsored by City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. (D–Astoria), chairman of the Public Safety Committee. More ...
Councilmember Tony Avella (second from r.), and state Senator Frank Padavan (c.) joined officials of Commerce Bank in celebrating the opening of Commerce Banks’ Bayside branch at 216-10 Northern Blvd. More ...
azBy Catherine Tsounis Members of the W.W. II generation are becoming history. Our youth do not have a person-to-person encounter with persons who survived a world war and created the most prosperous civilization of mankind. On Sunday, November 27, citizens of the tri-state area had the unique opportunity of meeting a gen More ...
The sweet science came to Queens last Thursday night when Lionheart Boxing Promotions presented Thursday Night Fights in the Big Apple at Amazura Night Club, 91-12 144th Pl., Jamaica on December 29. In a showcase for up and coming fighters, the likes of Pawal Wolek (8-0), and U.S. Olympian Roberto B More ... SJU Loses To Marist, Duke Madison Square Garden is the alternate home court for the St. John’s University men’s basketball team when the Red Storm isn’t playing at Carneseca Arena on the St. John’s University campus. Any home court advantage the Storm might have had, however, got blown away when the team was upset, 53-50 by 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 ... |
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