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BY JOHN TOSCANO Responding to complaints made by City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. on behalf of his constituents, the Westway Motor Inn in Astoria will no longer be used as a longterm homeless family shelter. Instead, it has been converted into an overnight intake facility for families seeking a permanent shel... More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO AND THOMAS COGAN At about 5 a.m. on Friday, September 28, Adil Aboussalham, who drives a yellow cab for a living, was driving up First Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets in Manhattan when he saw a man beating a woman severely. The assailant hailed Aboussalham's cab in an attempt to get away as his alleged victi... More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN Congressmember Joseph Crowley brought a flooding update to the October meeting of Community Board 2, alerting those who hadn't yet heard about it of the damage the August 8 rainstorm did to the Winfield section of Woodside. He promised it would be explained at length at a meeting in Winfield in th... More ... Despite Brooklyn Tornado, August Storm Damaged Queens Most BY RICHARD GENTILVISO A month after President George W. Bush declared Queens a major disaster area because of severe flood damage from an August 8 storm that brought a tornado touchdown in Brooklyn and Staten Island, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is taking over Disaster Assistance Service Centers set u... More ... Garden School Holds Merit Scholarship Exam On Saturday, November 17, more than 100 students will converge on Garden School in Jackson Heights for the school's annual Merit Scholarship examination. More ... 5 Outstanding Principals To Be Honored By Time Warner Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons will highlight the achievements of five exceptional principals in the New York City school system at a reception and dinner in honor of the recipients of TWC's inaugural "Principals of Excellence" Awards on Wednesday, October 10 at 5:30 p.... More ... Solomon Schechter School Holds Open House The Solomon Schechter School of Queens will hold an Open House on Sunday, November 4, at 10 a.m. Children are welcome. Activities and snacks will be provided. More ... MPB School Celebrates 50 Years Most Precious Blood School is celebrating its golden anniversary this year. For 50 years, the school has served as a source of educational and spiritual guidance for the community and its members. To commemorate this special occasion, a dinner-dance, which is open to the public, will be held on S... More ... Parking Lots To Be Landscaped Per Planning Dept. BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Seeking to help Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to bring cleaner air to the city by planting more trees, the Department of City Planning (DCP) has announced all future commercial or community facility developments with open parking areas of at least 18 spaces or 6,000 square feet will be required... More ... On the brief side... Fed OK's Spitzer's Food Stamp Effort The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) acceding to a request by Governor Eliot Spitzer, has expanded access to the Food Stamp program for low-income families in New York, the governor announced. More ... Decoy Operation Nets 10 For Alcohol Sales To Minors COMPILED BY LINDA J. WILSON Six men and four women who own and/or work at various bodegas and corner stores in the 114th Precinct were charged with having unlawful dealings with a child and engaging in the prohibited sale of alcohol to a minor after police conducted decoy operation last Wednesday, October 3. More ... Armenian, Arab & Bukharan Folk Music Concert Set The Anthropology Museum of the People of New York and the Armenian Cultural Educational Resource Center Gallery at Queens College invite the public to join them for an evening of music presented by the World Music Institute at NYU Skirball Center on Saturday, December 1, 8 p.m. More ... Curtains Up On New QTIP Season Queens Theatre In The Park (QTIP) was: "Created from a multitude of languages, rich cultures and diverse neighborhoods, we are one community when the curtain goes up at Queens Theatre in the Park!" Jeffrey Rosenstock, executive director said. More ...
Hundreds of people flocked to the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria on Tuesday, October 2 to honor the up-and-coming political career of City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. Many elected officials, dignitaries and community leaders were on hand to celebrate the occasion, including former... 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. For information, call 800... More ... Gennaro Says City's DEP Will Take On-Site Look At Sewer Problems BY JOHN TOSCANO At a City Hall hearing on Monday, September 24th on the recent flooding in areas of Queens, City Councilmember James Gennaro extracted a commitment from city environmental officials that "will surely result in solutions". More ... MTA Promises To Stop Queens Subway Flood Chaos BY LIZ GOFF Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials are vowing to help Queens straphangers get from here to there during the next heavy rainstorm. More ...
The congregation of the Greek Orthodox Shrine Church of St. Nicholas in 1971 was the first community organization to sponsor an ethnic festival in the New York metropolitan area. In 36 years, the St. More ... Borough-Wide Blotter COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF 105th Precinct Internet Dating Led To Sexual Assault Police arrested a 32-year-old registered sex offender on October 3 after he used the Internet to lure an Indianapolis woman to his Holliswood apartment, where he raped and assaulted her for hours, police said. More ... 'Flood Task Force' Long Overdue Queens homeowners and residents applauded the city's decision to create a multi-agency task force to develop a plan to keep flood-prone neighborhoods above water during rainstorms. More ... |
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