As spring arrived on March 21, Sunnyside Community Services (SCS), 43-31 39th St., Sunnyside and Time Warner Cable celebrated the first year of operation of the SCS technology center. More...
Miller Welcomes Sales Tax Relief State Assemblymember Mike Miller (D–Woodhaven) announced beginning April 1, that clothing, footwear and related items sold for less than $55 each will be exempt from the state’s four percent sales tax, as More...
Fire marshals are looking into the cause of a four-alarm blaze that tore through an Astoria café early Tuesday morning on March 29. Smoke started pouring from the building that housed Flo Café at 37- 23 30th Ave. at about 7:20 a.m. More...
Students of the William Spyropoulos School paid tribute to the infinite value of p on March 14 (3.14) at the Greek Orthodox Shrine Church of St. Nicholas in Flushing, celebrating the circumference of any circle - big or small. More...
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO The number of uniformed police officers in New York City will drop to its lowest total in 20 years next year, according to the city Independent Budget Office (IBO). More...
Queens County Savings Bank is celebrating the grand opening of its new College Point branch, 133-11 20th Ave., with a special event called, Everyone is a Winner, from March 26 through April 2. More...
Thanks to the efforts of Councilmember Dan Halloran (RWhitestone), residents of Whitestone will be safer at a once-dangerous intersection. Traffic speeding down 15th Avenue and 147th Street past P.S. More...
At the beginning of this month, Verizon announced that a new area code for Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and The Bronx. The new number, 929, will be distributed to new subscribers. More...
Reaching out to local small business owners, in particular those of District 26, was the purpose of Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer’s March 24 Town Hall meeting at LaGuardia Community College. More...
A gunman opened fire inside an apartment at the Queensbridge Houses on March 26, killing a young mother and wounding her boyfriend during a party celebrating the woman’s 27th birthday, police said. More...
On March 24, Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. joined middleschool students at P.S. 122 in crafting 1,000 paper origami cranes as a symbol of peace for the earthquake and tsunami victims of Japan. More...
Mount Sinai Queens, as of now the only hospital in Western Queens, serves about 250,000 people. That number increases to approximately 700,000 people when nearby communities in the borough are counted. More...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Despite some latedeveloping resistance from Astoria/Long Island City residents and local officials, the City Council voted last week to re-name the Queensboro Bridge in honor of former Mayor Edward I. Koch. More...
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney (D–Queens/Manhattan) has introduced a bill to encourage innovation and economic growth by allowing immigrant entrepreneurs to have greater access to temporary U.S. visas. More...
The hunt for underground wells of natural gas using the controversial hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking method has raised concerns from local residents and political leaders. More...
Members and supporters of Astoria’s Performing Arts Center gathered on March 24 for an evening celebrating the organization’s 10th Anniversary, honoring those who have helped in its expansion and growth. More...
Devotees of the Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) gathered at Cienna Restaurant on 31st Street in Astoria on the evening of Thursday, March 24, to celebrate the theater company’s 10th anniversary and to honor long time APAC supporters, Coun More...
Sam Chekwas, owner and publisher of Seaburn Publishing Group anounces the release of George Onuorah’s The Political Diary of A Rising Son, ISBN: 1-59232-273- 5, pp. 256, $20. More...
The FBI, along with members of the NYPD, arrested Marat Mikhaylich for his alleged involvement in nine area bank robberies this morning. He was arrested without incident in Woodhaven around 9:30 a.m. More...
On March 23, the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s signing of the Affordable Care Act into law, Congressmember Joseph Crowley (DQueens/ The Bronx) joined seniors from Elmcor Senior Center in Elmhurst for a discussion on how the l More...
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