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BY JOHN TOSCANO Moments after the new Democrat-controlled House of Representatives was installed last Thursday, a package of ethics reforms was passed that is expected to bring integrity to the legislative process, reverse Republican excesses and restore the public trust in Congress, Congressmember Joseph Crowley... More ...
The City Council approved a bill last week which positions New York City to provide cleaner and more environmentally friendly energy and could in the future reduce stress on the city power supply. More ... Community Board 4 Rejects Liquor License Applications BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Enforcing a much overlooked law designed to help protect local communities, Community Board 4 turned down two liquor license applications in Elmhurst and Corona based on the "500-foot rule" last week. Liquor licenses are routinely handled by the State Liquor Authority (SLA) in New York. More ...
A black woman in her mid- 30s is wanted for a series of bank robberies in the 107th, 109th and 111th Police Precincts. She passes tellers a note demanding money and flees the bank with it when she gets it. After one robbery she was seen fleeing in a late 1990s green Chrysler Town and Country miniva... More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Stressing that the deadly 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center "was not intended to be a solitary event", Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday made a strong plea to Washington lawmakers for sufficient funds to prepare the city's anti-terrorism defenses, should another attack occur. More ...
BY LIZ GOFF A group of Queens activists is calling on Governor Eliot Spitzer to extend his "People's Government" to lend a hand in bringing the Flushing Remonstrance back to the borough where the historic document was penned some 350 years ago. More ...
BY LIZ GOFF John Bowne's role in securing religious freedom in the United States dates back to the early 1600s, when he arrived in the colony of New Amsterdam and built his home in the community now known as Flushing. More ...
New York Mets mascot Mr. Met was a big hit at the "Friends and Family" fundraising event held each year to benefit Ronald McDonald House of Long Island. Clad in his blue and white Met uniform and sporting his blue Met cap, Mr. Met kicked up his heels and danced with children of all ages. More ...
Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (r.) as students raise the American flag. Assemblymember Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) and representatives of Commerce Bank raised the American flag on a new flagpole at the Queens Lutheran School, 31- 20 21st Ave. in Long Island City. Commerce Bank provided funding fo... More ... Offices Renovated At SJU The faculty, administrative staff, and students at St. John's University School of Education are enjoying new offices and lounge space at Sullivan Hall this academic year, thanks to Graf & Lewent Architects (GLA). The full-service design firm redesigned and guided the renovation of approximately 20... More ... 16-Year-Old Girl Robs Bank In Astoria BY LINDA J. WILSON A 16-year-old girl walked into the Commerce Bank branch at 31-09 Ditmars Blvd. shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday afternoon and passed a note to a teller demanding cash. When the teller walked away from the counter, the girl fled. A few minutes later, the same girl entered the First Central Savings Ba... More ... Cops Aren't Buying Bank-Rob Teen's Story BY LIZ GOFF Law enforcement sources this week told the Gazette that investigators are not buying the story an Astoria teenager, charged with robbing one local bank and attempting to rob another on January 5, has told them. Sources said investigators have "hit a stone wall" in their efforts to identify and l... More ...
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced that, according to preliminary statistics compiled by the New York City Police Department, crime in Queens County continued to drop in 2006. The downturn includes a 10.6 percent drop in homicides, from 94 in 2005 to 84 last year--the lowest since ... More ... T H E p u l p i t Chabad of Rego Park: +Jan. 14, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. The Jewish Women's Circle month of Tu B'Shvat "The Green Thumb for Your Jewish Soul", $7 donation, 62-38 99th St.; Mushky Mendelson, 718-897-6578. **** Community United Methodist: +2007 Playgroup registration, nine months to 4 years, 75-27 Metropo... More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN City Councilmember Helen Sears spoke to the January meeting of Community Board 2 about hospital closings and suggested steps she believes should be taken to establish effective healthcare services in every community. More ... Youth Job Program Launched In J.H. The first Youth Educational Program of the nonprofit computer school called Latin Technologies Institute was held on Monday with 25 students age 16 to 18 participating in the computer repair, networking and telecommunications session. On hand were several area lawmakers, headed by Congressmember J... More ...
Associated Supermarket 195-25 69th Ave., held their ribbon cutting ceremony in July 2006 and to show their appreciation, the store's co-owners Juan and Jose Guzman started a raffle that concluded in December. Shoppers who spent a minimum of $10 got a raffle ticket for a chance to win the 2006 Toyot... More ...
Just prior to the swearing-in ceremony for New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, New York City Council Finance Chair David Weprin greets Spitzer at the staging area inside the Capitol Building More ... Starbucks Bans Trans Fats From Bakery, Lunch Products In response to national health concerns about trans fats, Starbucks announced last week that it will convert all of its fresh bakery and fresh lunch products to zero grams trans fat. Approximately 50 percent of Starbucks' U.S. company-operated stores, including those in the New York metropolitan ar... More ...
Congressmember Gary Ackerman (D-Bayside) last Thursday, January 4, chartered a bus to take constituents from Queens and Long Island as well as local elected officials such as Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, to Washington, D.C. More ... |
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