The Department of Education (DOE) has identified Long Island City H.S. as one that will be part of a petition to the state for conversion into the Turnaround model. More...
A long-time member of Community Board 4 resigned his position earlier this month after two other members refused to salute the flag during a pre-meeting Pledge of Allegiance.
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A 66-year-old father and his 29-year-old son were found dead in their Ozone Park home on January 14, both overcome by carbon monoxide that leaked from a portable heater, fire officials said.
Kuo-Kung Chen and Aaron Chen were found unconscious at a More...
Employees from TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, contributed more than $2.2 million to the United Way through the bank’s annual Employee Workplace Giving Campaign. More...
Frustrated motorists who receive a parking ticket when they park their car to go pay at a muni meter will no longer have to pay for the parking ticket. More...
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo traveled to Flushing to outline his 2012-13 Executive Budget and Reform Plan, which expands on the historic reforms enacted last year to continue building a new New York. While there he met with Assemblymember Grace Meng. More...
Eight students, all who live in Queens, have been chosen as semifinalists for the Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition. More...
Councilmember Mark S. Weprin relinquished his Council seat for a day to Max Gallagher, a seventh grader at Public School 178, who won the Councilmember’s annual essay contest. More...
The first Greek American library established and operated in New York City opened on January 20 at the Pan-Macedonian Studies Center, 149-14 14th Ave. in Whitestone. More...
Get into a conversation with a longtime Queens resident and you’re likely to discover a former 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...
Animal Rescue Resources in Flushing has joined other animal welfare organizations in the area that list their homeless pets on Petfinder.com, the oldest and largest database of adoptable animals on the Internet. More...
Assemblymember Grace Meng joined her colleagues in government this week for the grand opening event of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Queens Field Office. More...
On January 18, Gypsy Rose, a proposed adult entertainment establishment at 42-50 21st St. in Long Island City, had its final hearing before the State Liquor Authority who determined that the liquor license would not be renewed. More...
A 27-year-old Howard Beach man last week was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a brutal road-rage attack on an off-duty Queens cop in August 2009. More...
Scores of people arrested in a drug sting coordinated by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and the NYPD are traveling a superhighway straight through the criminal justice system.
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The City Council last week voted to ban the Sanitation Department from slapping super adhesive stickers on illegally parked vehicles that block street sweepers.
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Time Warner Cable today announced the launch of TWC TV for iPhone. With TWC TV, customers can watch live TV from within the home, change channels on their set-top box and manage their DVR right from their iPhone. More...
In anticipation of the Chinese New Year, (the Year of the Dragon), the seventh annual Pre-Lunar New Year Gala and Flower Market was held on January 21 and 22 at the Queens Botanical Garden in Flushing. More...
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown was sworn in on January 19 to his sixth consecutive full term as District Attorney of Queens County–extending his record as the longest-tenured district attorney in Queens history More...
Little kids are amenable to learning new habits – generally much more so than those of us who are set in our ways because this isn’t our first rodeo. More...
Rachid Rhazali, a LaGuardia Community College graduate who went on to get his bachelor’s and master’s in criminal justice, has returned to his alma mater. More...
As Black History Month approaches this coming February, it’s an ideal time to pay a visit to the founding father of jazz, Louis Armstrong, at the Louis Armstrong House Museum, 34-56 107th Ave., Corona. More...
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others,” said Pericles Rev. Anastasios Diakovasilis, presbyter economos of St. More...
On January 18, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer honored the FDNY for their heroism in the face of the Woodside fire which killed one person and destroyed three homes. More...
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