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May 23, 2007 / Features

House Votes To Restore COPS Hirings, As Dems Promised

BY JOHN TOSCANO

One of the most successful national anti-crime programs was resurrected last week by the Democrat-controlled Congress, fulfilling a promise made by the party in last year's elections. More...

Second Annual Relay For Life At Astoria Park June 2

No one should have to face cancer alone- that's why cancer survivors, caregivers, family members, corporate sponsors, neighbors, individuals and relay teams will join together in a celebration of survivorship and hope at the Second Annual Relay For More...

Motor Neuron Disease, ALS, 'It's Time For A Cure'

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, is a motor neuron disease that rapidly progresses and attacks the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscles. More...

Astoria Generating Station Team Raises $50,000

Staff of the Astoria Generating Station subsidiary of US Power Generating Company were among the USPG staff and families who raised more than $50,000 at the recent Revlon Run/Walk for Women. More...

Psychologist-Comic Celebrates National Nursing Home Week With Tour

"New York's Funniest Psychologist", aka Dr. Drew Velting, took his geriatric-friendly, stand-up comedy on the road to observe National Nursing Home Week, May 13 to 19. More...

Start Summer This Weekend At Scott's Resort

Scott's Family Resort will open for its 138th season on Friday, May 25, just in time to start the Memorial Day weekend. Scott's is a wonderful, old-fashioned mountain resort owned and operated by the Scott family since 1869. More...

Go Green: Build With Earth Bags

BY CHUCK HALL

A fairly recent idea in green building is using an earth bag as bricks. As the name implies, this novel approach uses bags filled with earth to build structures. More...

NYCHA Tenant Caught Stealing $12,530 From City

Rose Gill Hearn, commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI), announced the arrest of Renette Moore, a former tenant of the New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA) Ravenswood Houses in Astoria for failing to report to NYCH More...

THE p u l p i t

PULPIT COMPILED BY SUSAN CLEARY

All Saints': +Jun. 9, Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Strawberry fair, great international foods, lots to buy, bargains galore, 43-12 46th St., Sunnyside; 718.729.8523 (Rectory). More...

Tri-M Swim Team Wins Championship

The Tri-M Girls CYO Swim Team, shown with their coaches, won their fifth consecutive Brooklyn-Queens Diocesan Championship at the Eisenhower Aquatic Center in Nassau County April 28. More...

Dentistry Duo Delivers Quality Care On Astoria's Broadway

BY JOHN TOSCANO

It used to be you would go to visit your dentist with some trepidation about the pain you would have to endure. You would sit in the waiting room bored, staring into space, dozing, or reading last year's magazines. More...

Bryant H.S. Scores A- In Quality Review

BY LIZ GOFF

Students, teachers and administrators at William Cullen Bryant H.S. More...

Marshall Holds Memorial Day Service For Queens Vets

A bugler plays taps as Colonel David Fitzgerald and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall pay tribute to the county's veterans in the Veterans' Memorial Garden outside Borough Hall during the Borough President's Memorial Day More...

Street Fest Season Starts With Ride Inspections

The city Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) and the Buildings Department last Thursday kicked off the summer season by sending an important message to temporary amusement ride operators, ride owners, and event organizers: all rides at street fair More...

FAMILY FEATURES

Summertime is here, and what better way to enjoy all the fruits of summer than by spending time outdoors with friends and family? Throughout the season, Slonger days and warmer temperatures make grilling a favorite activity. More...

Astoria Restoration Assn. Holds Spring Festival

Crowds thronged 31st Street between Ditmars Boulevard and 21st Avenue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. this past Sunday, May 20 for the Astoria Restoration Association's annual Astoria Spring Festival. More...

"It's easy to grill safely," say BBQ Queens Karen Adler and Judith Fertig. Consider these tips before you fire up the grill. Do: 1. Keep the lid open when lighting your grill. 2. More...

Artsy House In LIC; Buy It In Manhattan, Provide Own Lot

A preview of the 1951 Prototype Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicale house will be at the Long Island City Cultural Alliance, 41-98 Vernon Blvd. More...

Borough-Wide Blotter

COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF

102nd Precinct Grinder Severs Boy's Fingers A 4-year-old boy lost four fingers on May 17 after he stuck his hand in a meat grinder at his family's Richmond Hill restaurant. More...

Cabinet Considers Garbage Disposal, West Nile Virus

BY RICHARD GENTILVISO

Every day, city residents throw away the equivalent of 12,000 tons of waste. Since there are no longer any landfills or incinerators in New York City, where does it all go? More...

Annual Community Health Fair June 2

On Saturday bring the whole family to the Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens and United Community Civic Association Annual Community Health Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 2 at St. More...

'Stars Are Aligned' For Long Island City Development

Manhattan is a tight and hugely expensive market that is driving business outward from it. Jersey City has a price advantage over Long Island City, but the latter is part of New York and has a more extensive transit system to and from the Manhattan hub.

BY THOMAS COGAN

An arresting way to consider the recent growth of Long Island City would be to look across the river at it, from First Avenue in Manhattan's East 40s. More...

Tree Maintenance Is Leading Bd 1 Issue

BY RICHARD GENTILVISO

New York City intends to plant a million trees during the next 10 years. The initiative is one of 127 announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Earth Day. More...

Neighborhood News

COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF

Schoolyard Summer The city will open 69 public school playgrounds for unrestricted use this summer, including the P.S. 112 playground on Crescent Street in Dutch Kills. More...

JFK Terminal Mural Brings World Closer

A dramatic 397-foot-long mural recently installed at the new American Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) underscores the facility's status as one of the world's premier domestic and international gateways. More...

Flushing House Hosts Elder Law Seminars

Are you a senior citizen stuck on a financial roller coaster thanks to the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole"? Did you know that the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 has made it more difficult for seniors and the disabled to obtain Medicaid benefits? More...

DKCA Members Join In 'It's My Park' Day

On Saturday May 19, Dutch Kills Civic Association members (l. to r.): Thea Romano, Kim Teixeira, Pat Wilson, Executive Director George Stamatiades, Eugene Napolitano, Marge Fasano, Jimmy Natale, More...

Homeless Man Pleads Guilty To Shooting Bridge Painter

Steven Boyd, 47, a former security guard who had apparently been living in a makeshift shelter under the Grand Central Parkway overpass in Corona, has pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a bridge painter in November 2004. More...

Area Students React To 'An Inconvenient Truth'

Students from six area junior high and intermediate schools went to the Museum of the Moving Image to see the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" recently as guests of the United Community Civic Association (UCCA) and its president, Rose Marie Poveromo. More...

Girl Scouts Paint Mural At St. Demetrios School

Junior Girl Scouts from Troop 4852 at St. Demetrios Greek- American School of Astoria recently painted a mural promoting harmony on a wall of their school. "We are all united, wherever we are" was the mural's theme. More...

Mets, 'Sesame Street', St. Mary's Team Up In Song

BY DAN MILLER

On Thursday May 17, Bob McGrath of "Sesame Street" was joined by more than 15,000 children at Shea Stadium to record the 12,000th Song of Love ever composed by John Beltzer of Forest Hills. More...

The Origins Of Memorial Day

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of former Union soldiers and sailors - the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) - established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war More...

Local Man Stabbed In Astoria Park

COMPILED BY LINDA J. WILSON

Police of the 114th Precinct are seeking Miguel Rivera, aka Todd Rivera or Mike Rivera. More...

Shoppers Seek Bargains, Fun At Steinway Sale Days

Thousands of shoppers flocked to Steinway Street, "the world's longest department store", this past weekend to avail themselves of bargains galore and enjoy free entertainment for all ages at Steinway Street Sale Days, an annual tradition since 197 More...

D'Amico Presented With Assembly Citation

Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) presented Queens County Clerk Gloria D'Amico with an Assembly proclamation at a recent Taminent Women's Club card party. More...

FAMILY FEATURES

''DBackyard chefs across the country are drizzling big flavor over grilled food with a dollop of finishing sauces, salsas, vinaigrettes and relishes. More...

Jazz And Funk Trombonist Fred Wesley Featured At LPAC's Black Music Month Celebration

Fred Wesley, the jazz and funk trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and '70s, will be performing June 15 at a LaGuardia Performing Arts Center's Jazz Jam session. The performance begins at 8 p.m. More...

Bias Attack Participant Apologizes In Court

As part of his sentence, a 21-year-old college student offered a formal apology in open court to two Asian-American teenagers for his involvement in a biasrelated attack on them last summer in Douglaston. Paul A. Heavey, 21, of 43-35 247th St. More...