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An independent expert hired by the United Community Civic Association (UCCA) said a study on the environmental impact of a proposed 225,000 square foot. Federal Express facility in Astoria does not go far enough. "They could have done a lot more to develop a reasonable worst-case scenario," said Hiram Rothkrug, an environmental consultant, at the UCCA April meeting. More ... The Leadership Lunch Club at P.S. 112 in Long Island City ran a school-wide Penny Harvest with the help of the non-profit organization Common Centers. More than 200 public school students in the third through fifth grades raised $1,000, which they donated to fund breast health initiatives at Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens at a school-wide assembly Monday, April 14. More ... Queens lawmakers reported last week that the borough came away with a goodly variety of benefits to libraries, cultural institutions, homeowner mortgages, and other areas under the $122 billion budget passed last Wednesday, as well as a share of billiondollar allotments of public school funding. More ... A multi-million dollar package of priorities for public construction projects in Queens was approved by the Borough Board and submitted to Mayor Michael Bloomberg for inclusion in his executive budget, Borough President Helen Marshall announced. More ... At hearings before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs of which Congressmember Joseph Crowley is a member, General David Petraeus and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq "once again disappointed those of us concerned with a lack of tangible progress in the ongoing war in Iraq," Crowley declared. More ... The city's stalled $500 million Willets Point redevelopment plan ran into another obstacle last week as landowners presently occupying the property sued the city to force it to provide the necessary services to allow them to continue doing business there. More ... At the April meeting of the Astoria Civic Association, former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. began by announcing that this was the organization's annual police night. More ... New York City ranked 43rd out of 50 large cities in graduation rates for high school students, according to a national survey conducted by America's Promise Alliance. One of every three students drops out of high school each year in the U.S., or about 1.3 million annually the Alliance says. More ... Time Warner Cable's New York City region has introduced Caller ID on TV to customers who subscribe to both Digital Phone and digital cable*. This group of approximately 50,000 customers now has an additional free feature on television- a Caller ID display. More ... The Garden School's 10th annual Walk-A-Thon, sponsored by the school's Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) will take place on Tuesday, May 13. This event is one of the largest and most important fundraisers of the year for the school. All monies raised by the PTA go back to Garden School. More ... BY JOHN TOSCANO The Doe Fund, which employs formerly homeless persons and parolees to clean up more than 160 miles of New York City streets every day, has received another $564,000 federal grant, Congressmember Carolyn Maloney announced last week. More ... State Senator George Onorato (D-Queens) made the following statement on the 2008-2009 New York State Budget approved April 9 by the state senate and Assembly: "This $121.7 billion state budget, which was adopted under the most extraordinary of circumstances, has a great deal to recommend it. More ... The Armenian National Committee of New York will host the 93rd Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide at City Hall Chambers on April 25 at 5:30 p.m. The evening will feature Professor Henry Theriault of Worcester State College as the main speaker and Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, who will address the community and give the invocation. More ... Passover, the Festival of Freedom, is by far the most popular Jewish holiday and is probably observed more scrupulously than the Holy Days. This year, the first two nights of the Passover holiday are Apr. 20 and 21 and the last two nights are Apr. 26 and 27, both in the Hebrew year 5769. More ... City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe celebrated the addition of nine new electric cars to the Astoria Park fleet with Borough President Helen Marshall, City Councilmembers John Liu and Peter Vallone Jr. More ... Imagine neighborhoods in Astoria and Long Island City without shady trees to take the swelter out of summer. Try to think of your neighborhood as a place with far fewer streetlights and traffic signals, with overburdened sewers, car-crunching potholes at the mercy of a city administration that turns a deaf ear to problems in the "outer boroughs". More ... Seven men and one woman, all of Asian descent, were charged with having unlawful dealings with a child after they were observed selling alcoholic beverages to minors under the age of 21 at various establishments in the 114th Police Precinct on Saturday, March 29. The defendants were a 23-year-old male, arrested at 36-01 Ditmars Blvd. More ... Community Board 3 has lately been holding monthly meetings away from its usual arena, I.S. 227, the Louis Armstrong School, on Junction Boulevard. The March meeting was held at I.S. 230, 73-10 34th Ave. More ... At a late moment in a long meeting, one Community Board 2 member said of the City University of New York Graduate Center project in Long Island City: "It would be easy to embrace this project in its entirety- in a vacuum. More ... Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. Apr. 19 Passover begins at sundown; Apr. 20, Palm Sunday (Orthodox), First day of Passover; Apr. 21, Second day of Passover; Apr. 23 St. George's Day; Apr. More ... The Queens livery cab driver who lied about rescuing a baby that was abandoned in his cab, won't face criminal charges for his actions, according Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown. Livery driver Klever Sailema, 45, brought the baby to a Queens firehouse on February 28, where he said the baby's father had left the baby in his cab. More ... 109th Precinct Firefighters Spark Jumpers Four card playing employees at a Flushing business jumped from a second floor office window last week, when they thought firefighters responding to a false alarm were police raiding the card game. More ... |
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