A Long Island City civic leader is criticizing Bloomberg administration officials and the City Council over a city cost-cutting plan that would drastically reduce funding for Queens Library services. More...
Despite President Barack Obama’s advice to Congressmember Anthony Weiner that if he was in the beleaguered lawmaker’s shoes he would resign, Weiner continued to hold out against top Democrats and many others who have asked him to quit Con More...
Justin De Sola, Triple JD Discount Pet Food & Supplies, 21-75 36th St., Astoria, held his first pet adoption event May 27 with the help of the Animal Center of Queens and Heavenly Angels Animal R More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall (l) joined elected officials from city, state and federal governments, on June 8 at Queens Borough Hall with New Yorkers United for Marriage at a news conferen More...
City officials this week reminded Queens residents that opening fire hydrants without an FDNY authorized spray cap could result in a fine or 30 days behind bars. More...
Store owners throughout Queens are crying foul over a Bloomberg administration plan that would force grocers to rewire their buildings to allow them to remain open in a blackout. More...
William Cullen Bryant H.S.’s annual Read Aloud, was held on May 24 in the school library. It was organized by Assistant Principal of English, Maria Toskos, and librarians Joey Khoury and Russell Goldenberg. More...
On May 20, a man collapsed at Borden Avenue and 27th Street near the Midtown Tunnel. A 911 emergency call at 11:08 a.m. said the man was in his 50s and appeared to be having a seizure. More...
Astoria’s annual Independence Day celebration is set for June 30. The Central Astoria Local Development Coalition’s Annual Independence Day Celebration will be held on Astoria Park’s waterfront. More...
BY AL RONZONI, TRUSTEE, GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Get into a conversation with a long time Queens resident and you’re likely to discover a subscriber of the Long Island Star–Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. More...
On June 12, Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr., honored Queens Sanitation worker Frank Justich with a street in Astoria co-named in his memory. More...
On June 8, the Greek American Homeowners Association (GAHOA) gave out 14 scholarships honoring the “Greek Spirit” to students studying Greek in afternoon schools. This is GAHOA’s 20th year for the scholarships. More...
Headlining on June 17 at the Waltz-Astoria will be Jon Christopher Allen, who has played among an array of eclectic artists at Waltz-Astoria’s weekly ongoing open mic nights. More...
On June 7, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr.’s legislation to extend the age for the FDNY civil service exam from 29 to 35 years old. More...
There are 12 Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Queens, and Woodside could be the 13th BID, perhaps in the next year or so. At a meeting early on June 7 at St. More...
The city Department of Sanitation (DOS) last week announced a used clothing initiative, “re-fashioNYC,” a new partnership between the city and Housing Works that will make the act of donating clothing as easy as walking through your front More...
It will be five years next January since the City of New York last gave a test for the position of firefighter with the New York City Fire Department. More...
A record number of new television series are being scheduled to film in New York state this year due to the state Film Production Credit championed by state Senator Michael Gianaris. More...
On June 2, students from five city middle and five high schools had their plays performed at the Fidelity FutureStage Celebration Day at Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Long Island City. More...
While last summer’s news told about Queens’ murder rates, which rose nearly 30 percent, this summer’s news reports that murder mystery novels are also on the rise. More...
It’s a classic plot device of murder mysteries: an evil killer slips poisonous mushrooms into the frying pan of an unsuspecting victim who dies an agonizing death. More...
The Sunnyside Kiwanis Flag Day Parade took place on Saturday, June 11, a few days before the official Flag Day which is June 14. The parade started at 11 a.m. More...
Queens detectives last week released surveillance photos of four men sought in connection with a series of stabbings that injured four victims on April 10, outside a bagel shop on Broadway in Astoria. More...
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