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Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Nations Baptist: More ... Since 2002, the graduation rate in New York City high schools has increased by 29 percent, according to statistics from the city Department of Education. More ... Cold and rainy weather on the night of the Community Board 3 meeting October 15, held at the Louis Armstrong School, I.S. 227, appeared to keep board member and audience attendance down and led to a quorum question late in the meeting. A faulty sound system made some of the meeting hard to hear as well. More ... In 1970, schools in the United States educated only one in five children with disabilities. Many states had laws excluding children with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities from even attending school. More ... The Child Center of New York held a ribbon cutting ceremony at its Woodside Head Start facility at 3 p.m. October 14, naming the facility in honor of the Ficalora Family Foundation. The support of the foundation has enabled the facility to maintain and expand its Head Start program. More ... should I go? This is the question people from other lands have debated from time immemorial with regard to immigration. The plight of the immigrant has been well documented. The trials and travails of leaving behind what you know and where you were born for a vast unknown is a question few of us want to explore. More ... A new, centrally located home for the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School has been approved by the CUNY Board of Trustees, a move that will give the school nearly 70,000 additional square feet of space, enable it to offer a new, part-time program and situate it within walking distance of numerous city subway and bus lines, the Long Island Rail Road, and the New York State Supreme Cou More ... Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani, have endorsed Peter Koo, the Republican candidate in the tightening race to succeed John Liu in Flushing’s 20th City Council District. Koo’s opponent is Yen Chou, who was the surprise winner of the Democratic primary in which she defeated four other candidates, three of them also Asian Americans. More ... From all indications, the election for the 19th City Council District seat in Northeast Queens between Republican Dan Halloran and Democrat Kevin Kim on November 3 will not be decided until the final ballot is counted. That’s how close the race figures in the district that includes Bayside, Whitestone, College Point, Douglaston, Little Neck and part of Flushing. More ... Gunfire shattered the silence of an Astoria neighborhood on the night of October 18, when a volley of shots cut down an alleged drug dealer who apparently tried to hide the shooting from police. More ... Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. and members of the Department of City Planning have been working closely with Community Board 1, civic groups, the Norwood Neighborhood Association, the Greek American Homeowners Association and the Central Astoria Local Development Corporation [CALDC] to develop a plan that strengthens Astoria’s zoning laws. More ... The weather might have been less than ideal, but on Friday through Sunday, October 16, 17 and 18, shoppers flocked to Steinway Street, “the world’s longest department store”, to find quality merchandise at discount prices during the annual fall Steinway Sale Days super special sidewalk sale. More ... At public land use hearings on Thursday, October 15, at Queens Borough Hall, real estate developer Chris Xu submitted an application for constructing a hotel and supermarket in an area of Flushing that is zoned for industrialized and commercial use. More ... A 30-year-old Astoria man was one of four defendants charged last week in an NYPD sting involving the sale of illegal firearms. Juan Leon was charged with taking part in an illegal gun ring that sold more than two dozen firearms to undercover cops over a nine-month period between August 2008 and April 2009, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. More ... |
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