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BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Clarifying an offer to buy the Westway Motor Inn, real estate developer Joseph Pistilli said he was not interested in acquiring the property by eminent domain. "If Westway ownership is in trouble, in financial need, we would offer to buy it" Pistilli said at the November meeting of the United Com... More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO their groceries on that first Thanksgiving Day, those bags would still be littering our parks today," Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. said in explaining why he introduced legislation mandating that plastic shopping bags must be recycled to protect the environment. More ... FEMA Extends Flood Relief Deadline; Opens New Recovery Center Officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have extended the deadline for Queens residents who wish to apply for disaster relief for flood damage caused by the August 8 torrential rainstorm to November 16 at a new recovery center located at Lost Battalion Hall in Rego More ... Garden School Blood Drive Brings In 27 Pints A blood drive that falls on the day before Halloween can be expected to carry with it an air of playfulness usually not found at such events, and the Garden School blood drive last Tuesday, October 30, was no exception. More ...
Bank officials, joined by local political, business and community leaders, marked the opening of Sovereign Bank's newest Queens branch at Court Square, 24-29 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, with a VIP ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 30. The ceremony began at 1 p.m. More ...
Steve Chen, Crystal Window & Door Systems executive vice president, talked about the challenges of growth in a highly competitive industry and a global economy at a Queens College Business Forum Friday, November 2 at the Queens College Student Union. More ... 'Proof' At Variety B&G Club Looks At Math, Life Problems BY THOMAS COGAN A worthy production of "Proof", a play about mathematicians and their domestic sorrows, is the latest offering from the Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) and is currently being performed at the Broccoli Theater, with six remaining performances in the next two weekends. More ...
More than a thousand children dressed as ghosts, goblins, witches and more attended Roosevelt Island's annual Halloween costume party and parade last weekend. took place at the P.S./I.S. 217 Beacon School but the inflated rides, games, pumpkin painting, dancing and noshing on treats such as cotto... More ...
Pericles Motion Pictures announces the New York premiere of "¡Diega!" a new film written and directed by auteur James Aviles Martin at Anthology Film Archives, November 14 at 9:30 p.m. Martin produced and directed the documentary "ArtWatch". More ...
Veteran's Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is celebrated on the same day as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ... More ... 13th SHAREing & CAREing Benefit Set For Nov. 14 On Wednesday, November 14, SHAREing & CAREing, founded to serve breast cancer survivors on May 7, 1994 by Anna Kril, Carol Scarano, Lucille Hartmann and Mary Demakos, will hold its 13th annual benefit and fundraising silent auction from 7 to 10 p.m. at Riccardo's by the Bridge, 21-01 24th Ave., in... More ... Free GED/College Prep Classes For Veterans For veterans who are interested in furthering their education, LaGuardia Community College's Veterans Education Center is offering free high school equivalency and college preparatory classes beginning January 7- and the time to register is now. More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN A florist, a man named Bouquet who is not a florist and a man who once thought his occupation could not be described as a business were named as the small, medium and large business awardees at the Queens Chamber of Commerce Business Persons of the Year luncheon at Russo's by the Bay in Howard Bea... More ... The Pulpit Compiled by Susan Cleary Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Saints': •Nov. 17, Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Rummage sale, great bargains, reasonable, refreshments, 43-12 46th St., Sunnyside; 718.729.8523. More ... Flushing/Bayside YMCA Holds Awards Dinner The YMCA of Greater New York Flushing/Bayside YMCA will host its Community Service Awards Dinner on Thursday, November 8, honoring Debra Markell Kleinert, district manager of Community Board 2, and Sang H. Pak, KPMG partner. Each will be honored with the YMCA Community Service award for their prof... More ...
The accomplice convicted in the 2000 Wendy's Massacre apologized for the bloodbath last week, telling a reporter he is not a monster. More ... Dry Cleaner Killer Guilty BY LIZ GOFF The triggerman in the 2004 killing of a Long Island City dry cleaning executive was convicted of first-degree murder last week Denworth Davidson, 24, faces life in prison for the Oct. 7, 2004 murder of businessman Bruce Levy, co-owner of Red Cap Valet Dry Cleaning. It was the second trial for Dav... More ... News Of The Neighborhoods COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF Remembering The Principal At The Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior H.S. Students, administrators, teachers and alumni of I.S. 204, also known as the Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior H.S., gathered recently to share thoughts and memories of Tom Semanski, the former principal at the Long Island City scho... More ...
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and a host of elected and non-elected representatives, including average citizens, registered opinions on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pricing plan at York College last week. "This is a huge issue, an alarming national issue," state Senator John Sabini, speaki... More ... 108th Precinct CO Promoted To Deputy Inspector BY THOMAS COGAN The October meeting of the 108th Police Precinct Community Council was held without the commanding officer presiding, since he had the misfortune of being ill. But Commander Captain Thomas Kavanagh had news to assuage his indisposition: he had been advanced to the rank of deputy inspector. More ... |
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