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BY THOMAS COGAN At a Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce luncheon in May 2002, Vincent Reilly, White Castle regional manager, announced that the second "Night of the Castle" party, complete with king and queen, would be held in September at the White Castle on Queens Boulevard and 43rd Street, and that Betsy Gotbaum, pub More ...
The Department of Radiology of Queens Hospital Center (QHC) ushered in the More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Lawmakers in Washington from Queens have snagged large transportation grants to improve the city's private bus fleets for 500,000 riders, while city, state and MTA officials are pursuing a plan to create faster travel routes in Queens and the other four boroughs. More ... Pennsylvania Man Killed At Christening Party BY LINDA J. WILSON A 22-year-old man, in town from East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania to attend a christening party, was fatally injured in an altercation outside a Woodside restaurant early last Sunday. More ...
BY LINDA J. WILSON Two-way traffic on the Steinway Street Bridge will resume in October, Peter Goslett, community affairs director for the Queens Division of the city Department of Transportation told the Community Board 1 district cabinet last Thursday. Work on the bridge is expected to be completed in October 2007. More ... SAVVY SENIOR Ergonomic Gardening Dear Savvy Senior, I saw you on the Today show last More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN Community Board 3 concluded its 2005-06 meeting season by hearing from District Attorney Richard Brown, a representative of City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate about Willets Point, representatives of Vaughn College, seeking a variance so they can build a dormitory and a Grassroots Initiative activis More ...
Engracio P. Cortes, M.D., an attending oncologist at Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens in Astoria, described what lured him to specialize in caring for cancer patients. More ...
City Councilmember Eric Gioia joined members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and workers at a Stop-N-Shop Supermarket in Sunnyside recently to tour the supermarket building, where he saw the extensive structural damages and urged the building's landlord and business to fix the hazard More ...
City Councilmember Hiram Monserrate on Sunday, June 18 joined with family, clergy and community leaders to rename the corner of 47th Avenue and 104th Street in Corona as Marlon A. Bustamante Place. More ... T H E p ul pi t Abiding Word Ministries: + Fridays, 8 p.m., prayer and worship service; Sundays, 11 a.m., miracle and healing service; summer day camp, computer training, music lessons, counseling, 116-67 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica; 718-323-29218, www.abidingword ministries. met. More ... Junior National Leadership Conference Assemblymember Michael Gianaris stands with Brandon Solis, a sixth grader at More ... Legislature OKs Property Tax Relief Plan A property tax relief plan has been approved by the state legislature that will be worth an average of $250 to every homeowner whose taxes go directly to support schools. More ...
The Central Astoria Local Development Coalition (CALDC) annual Independence Day celebration will be held on the lawn in Astoria Park between Shore Boulevard and 19th Street, the Hell Gate Bridge and the Astoria Pool on Thursday, July 29, starting at 7:30 p.m. The event will begin with a Marine Corps More ...
The Police Athletic League (PAL) will launch its 2006 Summer Program in Queens on Monday, July 10. Hundreds of PAL youngsters play traditional sidewalk games, develop their creativity through arts and crafts, choose books from a mobile reading library and make new friends throughout the summer. More ...
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, acting more than ever like a presidential hopeful, in a speech to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a think tank, criticized the Bush administration for failure to develop an energy policy and place more importance on nuclear power, ethanol based fuels and hybr More ...
Andranik and Arshak Hayotsyans (Andy and Eddy) were among many other students More ... Wireless Internet Access Is Free At All Queens Libraries The 63 branches of the Queens Borough Public Library all now have free wireless Internet access. Customers are invited to bring in their own laptops and boot up. Once logged on to the library's network, they will have access to the same range of databases and Web sites as if they were on the library More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Congressmember Carolyn Maloney and advocates for improved healthcare service for Ground Zero 9/11 first responders called on President George W. Bush last week to meet with the Ground Zero responders and members of Congress to discuss how the federal government can better assist those who became sic More ... City May Subsidize Day Labor Centers Day laborers many of them immigrants, gathering on street corners in business districts seeking day jobs have aroused antipathy in some quarters. The street corner meeting places, however, may be replaced by subsidized job centers under a plan before a New York City panel. More ... Ronald McDonald House Awards $20,000 To Queens Child Guidance Center Ronald McDonald House Charities of the New York Tri-State Area (RMHC-NYTSA) recently awarded $20,000 to the Queens Child Guidance Center for the center's efforts to provide services to children from low-income families. Ronald McDonald House Charities grants are awarded throughout the year to organi More ...
State Senator Frank Padavan joined members of the Anniversary More ...
"We would like to give scholarships to the youth of our island of Chios," said Constantine Parthenis, president of the Society, located at 43-15 202nd St., Bayside. This unique society granted $30,000 to the William Spyropoulos School Building Expansion Fund of St. More ...
Opera students at The William Spyropoulos School presented "The Little Prince" on Tuesday, June 13 in the school's Assembly Hall. More ...
A special exhibition devoted to the long friendship and collaboration between More ... SJU Grads Win Broadcasters Contest On June 10 St. John's University graduates Kerri-Ann Dishuk and Mecca White were both selected as the Young American Broadcasters of the Year. The Young Americans Broadcasters Program was founded by seasoned industry expert Blanquita Walsh Cullum, who currently serves as the president of the Nationa More ... Our World School Holds Festival The Our World Neighborhood Charter School (OWNCS) located in the heart of Astoria hosted their third annual Multicultural Festival on June 3 to celebrate More ... |
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