The Pepsi-Cola sign that has greeted eastbound New Yorkers crossing the Queensboro Bridge for more than 70 years faces yet another move on its way to a new permanent home. More...
W hile many people used to believe that the cold winter weather put us at greater risk for illness, the truth is that it's not the cold, but the spread of germs through the environment -such as the hundreds of surfaces we touch everyday-that caus More...
H elp your kids develop healthy eating habits for life - use these tips from the American Heart Association. • Involve your kids in cooking and planning meals. Talk about what makes some ingredients better than others. More...
Nothing can spoil summer fun like bug bites, sunburns and scrapes. While you can't avoid every summer mishap, you can minimize your risk and be prepared with natural treatments. More...
After negotiations between the City Council and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, six-day library service has been saved by a restoration of $16 million to libraries in the city's final $59 billion budget. More...
The fourth Hunters Point South (HPS) residential project meeting, held in late June at the new facilities of Sunnyside Communities Services, was designed to be conclusive. More...
Members of the 114th Civilian Observation Patrol (Civ-OP), Inc, police officers from the 114th Precinct and the 114th Precinct Explorers teamed up to clean graffiti on 45th Street and Astoria Boulevard recently. More...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg last week rhapsodized in an op-ed piece about his "All Star City", with "the eyes of every baseball fan turned toward New York City in anticipation of the 2008 All Star game" at Yankee Stadium. More...
Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about volunteer vacations? It sounds like a fun and interesting way to travel but at age 59 I have some concerns. More...
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair: Creation and Legacy By Bill Cotter, Bill Young ISBN: 0738557455 No. of Pages: 128 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
BY LINDA J. WILSON
T he 1964-1965 New York World's Fair: Creation and Legacy by Bill Cotter and Bill Young, among the latest offerings in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series, cannot really be said to cover any new ground, at least not for anyone wh More...
At the turn of the last century, the average person could expect to live to about 45 years of age. Back then, infectious diseases regularly raced unchecked by any means save quarantine through the population. More...
Get into a conversation with a long-time Queens resident and you're likely to discover a subscriber of the Long Island Star-Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. More...