The Gazette is proud to welcome Blackbird's to the neighborhood. Blackbird's opened on June 20, just in time to herald the first day of summer. More...
We have no statistics on this matter, but it seems fairly obvious that moving a car from one side of a street to the other at least four times a week (across and back twice) expends a substantial amount of gasoline. More...
To The Editor: With recent newspaper articles and editorials decrying the lack of "progress" and vast "overruns" in cost in rebuilding at the World Trade Center site- after almost seven years- I made another "pilgrimage" from Bayside to Lower Manh More...
On July 10 pro football players Brad Smith (New York Jets) and and Justin Tuck (Super Bowl Champs New York Giants) visited Roy Wilkins Park to help RCN and United Way volunteers run a mini-camp for 50 youths. More...
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown on Tuesday joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall and baseball legend Joe Torre at the opening of the Family Justice Center in Kew Gardens. More...
An 18-wheel tractor-trailer truck (insert below) traveling south on Steinway Street collided with a crane at a building site at 32-56 Steinway St. shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, hurling a worker in the crane cab to the pavement. More...
In an interesting development in the Southeast Queens 6th Congressional District, opponents of incumbent Congressmember Gregory Meeks, who elected three of five Democratic convention delegates pledged to Barack Obama last February, are backing a ch More...
Sen. Kennedy Leaves Sickbed To Help Pass Medicare Improvements
In truly dramatic fashion last week, United States Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachussetts, still under treatment for brain cancer, returned to the Senate chamber to cast a vote for a Democratic bill to improve Medicare. More...
More than 40,000 conditions have been reported since October 2007. Queens accounts for about 28 percent of all conditions reported citywide, with most conditions reported within Community Board 13 and the fewest in Community Board 1.
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO
Last August, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the SCOUT program. More...
City Councilmember James F. Gennaro (D-Fresh Meadows) and state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Whitestone), joined by Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. More...
More comprehensive and detailed, the new Fire Code places greater emphasis on enhanced safety for the general public and firefighter/emergency responder safety.
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO
One day after 276 probationary firefighters graduated from the fire academy on Randall's Island, the city of New York's newly revised Fire Code went into effect on July 1. More...