April 14, 2010 RSS feed / Features

Am Air Offers Introductory Fares, AA Advantage Miles

If you book round-trip travel on American Airlines new daily nonstop flights between New York’s John F. More...

Mayor Points Out Census Importance To Media Audience

At a press event held in the Blue Room in City Hall last Wednesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on the media to inform their readers on the level of participation so far registered by different communities across the city and to help deliver the More...

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Weiner Says Rockaway Will Be Ready Congressmember Anthony Weiner says that Rockaway Beach, which was severely damaged by winter storms, is scheduled for sand replacement and repairs next month and will be ready for swimming and sunbathing when the More...

Join Social Security In Helping Planet To Go Green

Social Security has been practicing environmental stewardship long before “going green” was a fashionable catch phrase. Here’s just one example. More...

Cub Scouts Visit Gazette

Cub Scout Pack 90 visited the Queens Gazette on Thursday, April 8. (L. More...

Crowley Delivers $300 G Grant To Community Group

Making his summer recess from Congress into a working vacation, Congressmember Joseph Crowley presented a check for $300,000 to an Elmhurst economic equality group last week and later rallied community leaders to make a “last call” for N More...

Flushing House To Host Veterans Seminar

If you are a wartime veteran or a surviving spouse of a wartime veteran, couldn’t you use some extra help during these hard economic times? More...

Baskin-Robbins Holds 4th Scoop Night

31 Cent Scoop Night is back at Baskin- Robbins! America’s favorite neighborhood ice cream shop is sweetening the spring season by hosting its fourth annual 31 Cent Scoop Night celebration on April 28 from 5 to 10 p.m. More...

Board 1 Seeks Rainey Park Benches

Officials at Community Board 1 have asked the city to install additional benches at Rainey Park in Long Island City. The eight-acre waterfront park is located on Vernon Boulevard adjacent to Socrates Sculpture Park. More...

Free Synagogue Holds Inter- Religious Choral Festival

The Free Synagogue of Flushing presents, as a gift to the community, its Interreligious Choral Festival on Sunday, April 18 at 3 p.m. The program includes singers, musicians and dancers from a variety of religious traditions. More...

Hermes Expo 2010 Unites Hellenism, Phil-Hellenism

“The dark forces of globalism are threatening our cultural identity,” Captain Stelios Tatsis said at a recent Chian celebration. “Our future generations will not know where we come from and where we are going. More...

Mercedes Dealership Goes Green

Officials at Silver Star Mercedes-Benz last month completed installation of solar electricity systems at its headquarters and sales offices on Northern Boulevard and its service and parts departments on 37th Avenue in Long Island City, Michael Cohen, More...

Armenian Heritage Sends Artist-Engineer In New Direction

When Flushing resident Chris Gasparian was studying mechanical engineering at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, he enrolled in two painting courses in between his demanding engineering classes. More...

Bd. 11 Member Not Reappointed

Community board members serve two-year terms that begin on the first day of April. Members are appointed by the borough president with half nominated by City Council representative(s). More...

Bd. 2 Hears Of Pipeline, Crime

On Thursday, April 8, Queens Community Board 2 held its monthly meeting at the Sunnyside Community Services in Sunnyside. More...

Vallo Transportation, Ltd. To Move, Expand HQ, Services

Vallo Transportation, Ltd. President Linda DeSabato announced plans April 8 to expand Vallo corporate headquarters and services. More...

Cops To Bank Bandit: ‘What’s In Your Wallet?’

The answer to that question put one brazen Queens bank bandit behind bars on April 6 after a savvy bank teller handed the bandit an envelope containing cash and a dye pack that exploded as the thief left the bank. More...

Astoria Civic Association Holds Scholarship Dinner-Dance

The Astoria Civic Association held its 77th annual Judge Charles J. Vallone Scholarship Dinner and Dance on Saturday, April 10 at Riccardo’s by the Bridge, 21-01 24th Ave., Astoria. More...

Final Chapter Fundraiser Held For Sophocles Statue

The Athens Square Committee gathered for their “Final Chapter” fundraiser on April 8, at the Astoria World Manor, 25-22 Astoria Blvd. in Astoria. More...

The Pulpit

Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Nations Baptist: More...

Greek Independence Parade Set For April 18

On Sunday April 18 the 72nd annual Greek Independence Day Parade will celebrate Hellenic heritage and freedom and commemorate the 189th anniversary of Greece’s declaration of independence on March 25, 1821. More...

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