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BYTHOMAS COGAN Queens County District Attorney Richard Brown entered to applause at the February meeting of the Astoria Civic Association, where he was the evening’s guest speaker. Before he was formally introduced, however, City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr., head of the council Public Safety Committee, said a More ... Avella Miffed At Marshall, Ticked Off At Klein, Too BY JOHN TOSCANO 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’s action made the fight all the harder. More ...
Photos Diana Sanders 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 ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Congressmember Carolyn Maloney hailed a new federal report released last week which will send “hundreds of millions” in federal funding to two major transportation projects in her Congressional district, East Side Access and the Second Avenue Subway. More ... Queens Library Offers Low-Income Seniors Free Tax Counseling 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 ... 5 ‘Johns’ Have Cars Seized In Losing Proposition 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 ... THE Pulpit Atonement Lutheran: •Sunday, 10:15 a.m., services; noon, Sunday school in English; 2 p.m., service in Spanish. More ...
BY AUSTIN H. ARMITSTEAD 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 ... Hotline Tracks Patient Care Complaints State Senator George Onorato (D–Long Island City) announced that the state Health Department has initiated a new statewide hotline to help ensure quality care for patients in hospitals and other medical facilities throughout New York. More ...
BY LINDA J. WILSON Photo by Dominick Totino 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’s sustainable landscape and building project, and Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Earth Pledge, a nonpr 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 RICHARD GENTILVISO Photo by Dominick Totino 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 ...
BY THOMAS COGAN The February meeting of the Dutch Kills Civic Association, in the cafeteria of St. Patrick’s School, 28th Street and 40th Avenue, was the occasion of its Valentine’s Day party. Food, mainly in the form of three sandwiches, each a good yard and a half long, was placed on serving tables, as was drink, More ...
Musical Director/Owner Michelle Koutsoubelis, teachers, parents and students at Cathy’s Dance Studio, 33-19 Crescent St., Long Island City, had a lot to celebrate last Friday, February 10. After a ribbon cutting ceremony with City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. doing the honors, for the first time More ... Sueño Latino’ Premieres Feb. 16 At Lexington School Latin fever spreads to a new generation when “Sueño Latino” comes to the More ... Restaurant Owner To Get Help With Noise Problem BY LINDA J. WILSON 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 ...
BY GLORIA SANDERS T he next stop on the No. 7 line brings us to 61st More ...
Funding to repair the streets and sidewalks destroyed by last February’s massive water main break in Astoria has been acquired by Congressmembers Anthony Weiner and Carolyn Maloney, following a request from Assemblymember Michael Gianaris. More ... Steinway Street Bridge Demolition Starts 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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