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Since the beginning of his tenure at The Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills, Headmaster Mark Fish has prioritized an examination of the school’s administrative structure. Fish quickly discovered that the role of Director of Admission was crucial to the school’s continued success, and so to fill this redefined, senior-level post, appointed Dr. More...

With an eye toward preventing last year’s Wall Street collapse that sent the nation’s economy on a downward spiral into the present recession, the House last week passed the most stringent changes in federal financial regulations since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. More...

Holiday Toy, Clothing, Food Drives Dec. 17 deadline, Assemblymember Ann- Margaret Carrozza’s 13th annual toy drive to help Queens families, call 718.57.3588 for information. More...
What transpired at City Hall this past Monday may well go into the record books as Black Monday. For the first time after eight years in office, the City Council voted resoundingly against a major development project sponsored by the mayor. More...
Since 1958 and still the best,” boasts the menu at Gaudio's Pizzeria and Restaurant, located on 30th Avenue in Astoria. Few restaurants can say that they've been a part of their community for 51 years, but Gaudio's Pizzeria and Restaurant certainly has bragging rights to this claim. Gaudio's began as an Italian immigrant's dream, opened by Luigi Gaudio in 1958. Today, More...
Dear Savvy Senior, The television program “60 Minutes” recently did a disturbing segment on the problem of Medicare fraud, which has raised some questions for me. What are the steps Medicare recipients need to take if they suspect fraud, and what can be done to prevent it from happening? More...
On December 14, members of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) toured NYCEDC projects in Long Island City and along Sutphin Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue in Jamaica. In both locations, they were witness to the promising future of the borough. More...
The results of national test scores of New York City public school students, which were released last Tuesday, showed “no significant improvement” in student performance from 2007, according to outgoing City Councilmember John Liu, leading the city comptroller-elect to comment: “The sobering results severely impugn the credibility of the city Department of Education’s P More...