Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today joined Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Community Board 9 District Manager Mary Ann Carey, and local tennis players to cut the ribbon on $1 million in improvements to seven tennis courts at For More...
108th Precinct
Can’t Buy These Cops
A 20-year-old Sunnyside woman this week is facing bribery charges after she offered cash to cops at the 108th Precinct in exchange for a jail break for her boyfriend.
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$2G Reward For Shooting Suspect
Police at the 114th Precinct Squad are seeking help from the public to help locate a suspect in connection with a September 9 shooting.
Cops responding to 911 calls on September 9 found a male victim, shot in the More...
Police last week nabbed a 41-year-old Bayside man who tried to rape a woman on September 28 but was scared off by the shouts of a hulking ex-Marine who came to the victim’s rescue.
Cops said Kenneth King allegedly grabbed the victim, a 38-ye More...
LaGuardia Airport
Georgia Man Busted
Port Authority police last week arrested a 54-year-old Georgia man at the check-in at LaGuardia Airport for illegally carrying two revolvers, authorities said.
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According to the New York state Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (ABC), an applicant for a liquor license for an establishment must notify the relevant community board before the State Liquor Authority receives the application. More...
Ten years after 9/11, problems in first responder communications which surfaced then remain unsolved and newer ones are coming onto the scene to be dealt with. More...
Area residents are outraged over the apparent torching of a playground located in Alley Pond Park, at the intersection of Springfield Boulevard and 76th Avenue in Oakland Gardens. More...
The Knights of Columbus, an international Roman Catholic fraternal benefit society, lobbied state legislatures to declare October 12 a legal holiday. More...
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 the afternoon of August 10, 108th Police Precinct Officers Joel Edwards and Michael Smith saw a van driver proceeding unsafely near the corner of Queens Boulevard and 58th Street. They signaled him over, but instead he sped away. More...
Mieko Anekawa, a Japanese painter who was featured in the Queens Gazette last year, has been continuing to make her presence known in Long Island City. More...
The newly renovated Federation of Italian American Organizations of Queens (FIAO) soccer field, located at 33rd Street and 20th Avenue in Astoria, was blessed by Monsignor Ralph J. Maresca of St. More...
I spent this past summer trudging through six-mile treks each weekend with two good friends. We walked along the edge of wheat fields outside of town. (My friends and I qualify as middle-aged ladies, so the walks counted as significant exercise. More...
The attorney for a couple arrested in Pennsylvania with their eight children who they abducted from a Forest Hills foster-care facility this week said his clients are eager to return to New York to face kidnapping and child endangerment charges.
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Queens fire officials this week named electric space heaters as the number one cold weather killer,” saying they are the leading cause of fires during cold weather months.
“They are, without a doubt, the main cause of house fires durin More...
The mother of a six-year-old Long Island City boy is suing the city for $10 million, charging her son was sexually attacked inside his school last June.
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On September 21, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer joined P.S. 78 Principal Lou Pavone for the school’s first PTA meeting of the year. At the meeting, Van Bramer announced his capital funding allocation of $50,000 for 2011. More...
In April, Councilmember Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone)believed better days were ahead for the Douglaston World War I monument. He reached out to various city agencies asking them to take responsibility for the monument’s upkeep. More...
A street camera near 29th Street and Broadway played a major part in apprehending an individual wanted for snatching cellphones while riding a bicycle. More...
With a standing-room only crowd, award-winning Wall Street Journal and WCBS Newsradio 880 commentator Joe Connolly moderated a spirited discussion with the heads of four leading Queens entrepreneurial firms. More...
In 1905, Colorado became the first state to observe a Columbus Day. Over the next few decades other states followed. In 1937, then- President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed every October 12 as Columbus Day. More...
A federal grant of almost $20 million has been received by the City of New York’s community colleges to help them to train workers who want to change careers, a vital need during this extended period of high unemployment, Congressmember Carolyn More...
The city Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, Congressmember Joe Crowley and state Senator Michael Gianaris announced that short term metered parking is being added and parking regulation More...
Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. is urging Governor Andrew Cuomo to fight a 50-unit housing development for the mentally challenged and homeless New Yorkers that the Urban Pathways organization has proposed for Astoria. More...
The most fun filled month of the fall season is finally here. In October, haunted houses and Halloween stores are preparing to open, pumpkin patches are ready to be picked and local stores are stocking up on chocolates and candies. More...
On October 10, Columbus Day parades will be taking place throughout the United States. A parade also takes place every year in Astoria, involving residents, elected officials and various organizations from the community. More...
On September 25, the Italian community from Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Astoria celebrated the feast in honor of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina with Italian Mass. More...
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