Councilmember Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) accepted letters from students at the Sacred Heart School in Bayside on Monday protesting the city’s planned closure of FDNY Engine 306 in that neighborhood. The students presented Halloran with d More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall (l.) and Queens Library Director Thomas Galante (r.) watch a youngster learn how electricity is generated with one of the science exhibits at the library’s Children’s Discovery Center in Jamaica on More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall congratulates Luke San Antonio (second from r.), the 2011 recipient of the $1,000 Mindlin Scholarship during a check presentation at Borough Hall on June 8. San Antonio, a resident of Flushing and student More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski inspect boathouse and dock in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park during their visit on Wednesday, June 8. Marshall’s office provided more than $6 million More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall joined Con Edison’s Green Team on June 15 at a Queens Village home to conduct an energy survey that will help the homeowner reduce costs and improve energy efficiency. More...
“I hereby resign as the member of the House of Representatives for New York’s Ninth Congressional District effective at midnight, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. More...
Flag Day And Libraries To The Editor, I am disappointed to realize that it was Flag Day yesterday and nothing was mentioned on TV news, no flags were displayed in the community and there was no coverage materials in the Gazette about the important da More...
On June 16, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, Chair of the Cultural Affairs and Libraries Committee, accepted delivery of hundreds of thousands of signed postcards and petitions advocating for library funding in the five boroughs. More...
•Queensboro Plaza (connection to Astoria line)
Towards Queensboro Plaza & Vernon Jackson: at Queens Plaza South & Jackson Avenue, adjacent to ADA elevator, provides access to Queens Plaza Station on the E and R lines.
Towards Queensbor More...
On June 16 Astoria musicians organized by Mina Nakajima-Wu gathered at the Tony Bennett auditorium of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts to put on a benefit concert to aid the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. All proce More...
Federal regulators recently cited three Queens contractors for multiple safety violations following an investigation into a construction accident that left a 26-year-old worker dead and three others seriously injured in Elmhurst on January 10. More...
From collecting water samples at Forest Park to learning about the decomposition process at landfills to exploring forest ecology, Seeds to Trees, City Parks Foundation’s (CPF) flagship education program, introduced science and nature in the ur More...
Assemblymember David Weprin (D-Little Neck) said last week he would push for new legislation that bans motorists from smoking in vehicles carrying children under age 14. More...
The Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association (KGHCA) has donated $4,000 to the Queens Library for book purchases at the Kew Gardens Hills branch, KGHCA President Patricia Dolan announced on June 9. More...
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