RSS Feed
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
9 Officers Earn Cop Of The Month Honors At The 114th BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Nine police officers whose beats run from Astoria Park to Queens Plaza South and along Broadway, Steinway Street and Ditmars Boulevard were honored for helping to keep the community safe over the summer. Cop-of-the-Month awards for June, July and August were the top agenda item at the September m... More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO While he maintains that graffiti in any form is unlawful, City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. reserves his greatest displeasure for any vandalism done with etching acid because the acid is dangerous, destroys property and is extremely costly for city government. More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Taking hope from a bill which passed the state legislature in the last session and was signed into law, Assemblymember Margaret Markey said she will try again in the 2008 session to have legislation passed by both houses to extend the statute of limitations to pursue criminal and civil cases of ch... More ...
BY LINDA J. WILSON In September 1942 the United States had been at war with the Axis Powers for almost 10 months. New York had ended night baseball games for the rest of World War II and Irving Berlin's musical revue "This Is the Army" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York on July 4. More ... Feds Urge Storm Battered Queens Victims To File For Aid By Oct. 30 BY LIZ GOFF & SUSAN CLEARY Storm battered Queens residents are being urged by federal officials to apply for assistance to cover the cost of repairing or rebuilding their homes and lives that were left in a shambles by severe storms, flooding and a tornado that tore through the borough on August 8. More ...
BY DAN MILLER The Queens Library Foundation hosted its seventh annual dinner, The Crystal Ball...A Magical Event, on Monday, October 1, at 5:30 p.m. at the Water's Edge Restaurant on the East River at 44th Drive, Long Island City. More ...
Panera Bread at 38-01 35th Ave. in Long Island City is putting a mouth-watering twist on fundraising for breast cancer research. More ... TWC, CyberAngels Launch 1st NYC Cyber Safety Day Time Warner Cable of New York & New Jersey and CyberAngels, a Guardian Angels program dedicated to keeping children and families safe from harm on the Internet, has announced the launch of a $500,000-plus, multi-media public safety campaign to help educate parents on how to teach basic Internet sa... More ...
Photo Anna Donovan Neighborhood dignitaries hosted a fundraiser for Peter F. Vallone Jr. at Zodiac Restaurant in Astoria, drawing a crowd of more than 150 people to celebrate his ongoing commitment to his community. More ... Ships To Nowhere Exhibit Opens A special exhibit opened October 1, inaugurating opening of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center's new exhibition, Ships to Nowhere. The opening was highlighted by the presentation of citations to Queens residents Irving Redel, Esther Katz, Margot Gold and Jane Keibel, all passengers aboard some of the... More ... Onorato Appeals For Greece 'Fire' Donations State Senator George Onorato renewed his plea last week for concerned residents to join him in making donations to organizations taking contributions to aid the people of Greece as they struggle to recover from the wildfires that ravaged their country recently. More ...
More than 150 people came to Riccardo's by the Bridge last Wednesday, September 26 to show their support for state Senator George Onorato's re-election campaign. More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN Community Board 3 has a district so laden with bar-restaurant combinations that it has to make State Liquor Authority license applications a major part of nearly every meeting. As the board got back to post-summer business at its September meeting, seven such applications were on the agenda, thoug... More ...
TToday we take for granted that the world is round. In the fifteenth century, however, most people believed the world was flat. They thought that monsters or a trip over the edge of the earth waited for anybody who sailed outside the limits of known territory. People laughed at or jailed others ... More ...
City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. unveiled a street sign on Sunday, September 30, officially renaming the corner of 32nd Street and Astoria Boulevard at the apex of Columbus Triangle, directly in front of the statue of Columbus, Cav. Vincenzo Iannece Corner after Vincent Iannece, who devoted... More ... Board 1 Turns Down Club's Cabaret License BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Ensconced between 25th and 27th Avenues at the side of the BQE an establishment at 26-44 Borough Pl., was not immediately familiar. But once the name Club Casino and its violent history were recalled, Community Board 1 denied a cabaret license for a proposed new nightclub lounge at the same locati... More ... The Pulpit Compiled by Susan Cleary Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. UJA Federation: The UJA Federation of New York helps connect people during the holidays by offering referrals to local synagogues that are open to non-members for High Holiday services. Fees for services may vary.... More ... 21-Year-Old Murder Case Finally Comes To Trial BY SHARON UDASIN Twenty-one years after a woman was brutally murdered in a burglary of her Sunnyside Gardens home, the Queens district attorney finally brought a suspect to trial. But the prosecutors fear that their case may be crumbling. During testimony, a leading prosecution witness said that the defendant th... More ...
BY ED HORN Army Spc. Jonathan Rivadeneira, 22 years of age, died in Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy. He leaves behind his mother and a young wife who were preparing for his tour to end this December. A photo of the young solider reveals a smiling face reflecting the type of p... More ... Corona Mom's Trial Starts In Shaken-Baby Case Blanca Jaramillo, 38, ran out of her Corona house on Apr. 6, 2006, with her baby, Christopher, in her arms, screaming, "Please, please help me! Help me! My son is dying!" Juan Perez testified. BY MIKE GADD A mother accused of violently shaking her 11-month-old baby so hard that parts of his brain died and his retinas bled tried to cover up her crime by falsely claiming the baby fell down some stairs, a Queens prosecutor said. Blanca Jaramillo, 38, ran out of her Corona house on Apr. 6, 2006, with h... More ... News Of The Neighborhoods COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF 107th Precinct Sergeants Honored Three NYPD sergeants at the 107 Precinct in Fresh Meadows received honors from the Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) recently for on the job heroics, overall performance and good, old-fashioned police work that led to the arrest of numerous violent criminals... More ...
Local lawmakers last week submitted formal opposition to the Public Service Commission, charging Con Ed's pending rate increase request is the largest such request in history. "Con Edison gives new meaning to the word 'chutzpah'," Assemblymember Michael Gianaris said. More ...
Theresa Brucculeri, Ronald McDonald House of Long Island Board of Directors vice president, is a dedicated and compassionate individual with a long history of charitable work in helping children at the House. More ...
A tribute concert will be performed on Saturday, October 13 at 8 p.m. at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), located at Queensborough Community College 222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364. Get to know Dean Martin through the eyes of his youngest son - singer, songwriter and musician... More ... Barrage Of Woes Greets 108th Precinct Commander BY THOMAS COGAN The 108th Police Precinct Community Council resumed its series of meetings in September, hearing from an audience determined to unload a lot of summer woes that had gone unexpressed in the two months the council was on vacation. More ... Elmhurst Hospital Center Holds Prostate Cancer Screenings Elmhurst Hospital Center opened its doors to the community, offering men the opportunity to be screened for prostate cancer in recognition of National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month on Saturday, September 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Community Medical Center. More ...
It's official! Mr. Met, the big-baseball headed mascot of the New York Mets, has made it to the Mascot Hall of Fame. "Mr. Met is in," Hall of Fame Vice Chairman Chris Bruce said in announcing the honor on September 14. Team officials said Mr. Met was "jumping with joy" when he received news of t... More ... |
for larger version       |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
