A new exhibit honoring the Flushing Remonstrance was opened on Tuesday, November 10 at the Flushing branch of the Queens Borough Public Library. More...
The 2009 election now over, the political focus moves on to the city’s budget. After his third term inauguration on Jan. 1, 2010, one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s first tasks will be to present a preliminary budget. More...
Date & time subject to change, call to confirm. Associations Nov. 12, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., United Forties Civic; St. Teresa Parish Center, 50-22 45th St., Woodside; 718.392.0416. Nov. 12, Dec. More...
Y ou wouldn’t expect to read about a bowling alley in a restaurant column but then there's much more to the story of Astoria Bowl than meets the eye. Let's begin with owner Perry Poulos, an Astoria native, who spent his childhood attending St. More...
Ninety-one years ago today, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918, the guns fell silent. “The Great War” that began in August 1914 was over. More...
Brian Keeler, co-founder of FireMonserrate and thealbanyproject. com, worked for state senate Democrats while Director of Communications for the state senate Majority and state Senator Malcolm Smith until early June. More...
Week 8 was a good one for the Bayside Raiders Youth Football Organization. The Raiders dominated the Eagles in two games, winning one by a 22-8 score and the other 30 to 0. More...
Suspect Nabbed In Fatal Shooting Police last week arrested a 31-year-old Queens man in connection with the October 24 fatal shooting of a Sunnyside resident and another man. More...
The agenda at the November meeting of Community Board 2 entailed discussion of the board’s Fiscal Year 2011 capital and expense budget and election of officers. More...
City Comptroller-elect John Liu not only made history in winning election last week, becoming the first Asian American to hold the second highest office in the world’s foremost city, but he also out-polled Mayor Michael Bloomberg by about 150, More...
Congressmember Anthony Weiner and City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley joined recently at a rally to drum up support for Weiner’s bill to ensure that Social Security benefits keep up with the rising costs of living in major cities such as New More...
Katherine Cooper, a science teacher at Townsend Harris H.S., a highly selective New York City public high school in Flushing, has been named a recipient of the Fund for the City of New York’s first annual Sloan Awards for Excellence in Teaching Scien More...
Astoria retailers are hitching their hopes for a black Christmas (as in black ink in their ledgers) to an early shopping season, decorating windows and cutting prices to draw shoppers to put down their cash and plastic for holiday bargains weeks befo More...
The Free Synagogue of Flushing recently being named to the New York State and National Register of Historic Places couldn’t come at a better time. More...
