On April 4, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer joined numerous community and elected officials to cut the ribbon for Jet Blue’s new headquarters in the Brewster Building in Long Island City. More...
Flushing Bank’s John Siu visited a session of the Queens Economic Development Corporation’s Home Improvement Training Course on March 24 at the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce of America on 38th Avenue in Flushing. More...
The Brooklyn man charged with killing a well-liked Maspeth bar owner might avoid a lengthy prison sentence under a plea deal under consideration by Queens prosecutors, law enforcement sources said. More...
Police are searching for a team of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters who last week claimed responsibility for acts of vandalism at more than 20 subway stations across the city. More...
On April 3, Queens Community House (QCH) staff, participants and supporters joined Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi, Grace Meng, Councilmember Karen Koslowitz, state Senator Toby Ann Stavisky and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall at a Press Confere More...
Queens detectives are awaiting the results of tests performed by the city medical examiner to determine the cause of death of a 42-year-old Woodside man whose half-naked body was discovered inside Calvary Cemetery on March 25. More...
Neighbors in a close-knit Corona neighborhood are in shock this week as they try to cope with the brutal murder of the elderly, “neighborhood patriarch”, who was found bludgeoned to death inside his 43rd Avenue home on March 26.
A careta More...
A group of students from Queens, NY, recently went to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum to attend the Youth Leadership Conference, sponsored by Time Warner Cable. Students from I.S. 59 in Springfield Gardens, along with J.H.S. More...
Dear Savvy Senior
What types of vaccinations are recommended for seniors? I know about flu shots, but what else is recommended and what’s covered by Medicare?
Cheap Shot Sally More...
Police, firefighters and the Coast Guard last Friday night abandoned a day-long search for a union painter who tumbled 140-feet from the Throgs Neck Bridge into the frigid waters of Long Island Sound.
John Massas, 35, was working on a platform under More...
After a full day of head-to-head Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) battles, Frank LaSalle Jr., 7, clenched third place at the 2012 Connecticut Pokémon State Championships, earning a top state ranking and Championship Points that count tow More...
Congressmember Bob Turner and Councilmember Eric Ulrich sent a letter to New York State Department of Health Commissioner, Nirav Shah, requesting a public meeting in the Rockaways to address increasing questions regarding their decision to close the More...
New York Restoration Project and its MillionTreesNYC initiative, in partnership with JetBlue Airways, New York’s Hometown Airline, has announced the fifth annual One Thing That’s Green tree planting event. More...
“April is the cruelest month…” Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot wrote in the opening lines of his massive work The Waste Land. We would beg to differ. More...
As we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month this March, we should reflect on the progress of women in the United States and here in Queens. More...
A major track renewal and component replacement project along the Queens Boulevard Line will require Manhattan-bound E and F customers boarding at local stations between the Sutphin Boulevard (F) and 75th Avenue (E, F) stations to back-ride Queens-bo More...
Elected officials gathered on the steps of Queens Borough Hall on March 30, to protest the Department of Education’s proposal to close 33 schools and reopen them under the Turnaround method. More...
Michelle Coleman, 16, of Forest Hills, enjoyed the experience of serving as the 29th District Councilmember for a Day. As part of Women’s History Month, members of the New York City Council’s Women’s Caucus each brought in the More...
A 29-year-old Woodside woman is facing 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for tossing her newborn daughter in a hospital trashcan in May, 2011.
Dawa Lama admitted to tossing the baby inside a trash can in an Emerge More...
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced today that New York state will no longer collect sales tax on clothing and footwear under $110. The sales tax exemption will begin April 1. More...
104th Precinct Hunt Armed Deli Bandits Police in Ridgewood are seeking help from the public to identify and locate an armed suspect and his accomplice who held up a local deli. More...
Straphanger Falls To Death
Police said a man in his 20s fell to his death on the tracks of the Broadway station on the “N” line in Long Island City early Sunday morning, April 1.
Cops who arrived at the station at 5:20 a.m. More...
A 43-year-old Astoria man was sentenced last week to 12-years-to-life in prison for ordering his pit bull to attack a police sergeant in 2010.
Jeffrey Cofield represented himself at a three-day, non-jury trial in February where Queens Supreme Court More...
A heartless Astoria bodybuilder is facing one year in prison after pleading guilty to throwing his dog out the window of his third-floor apartment last September.
Milan Rysa, 30, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment on March 15 at a More...
The St. John’s Prep Spring Blood Drive was a great success. Eighty eight pints of blood were donated to the New York Blood Center. Appreciation is owed to administration, faculty, staff and students who donated their blood. More...
Diancai Zhou, 38, owner of Fuji Japanese Cuisine in Forest Hills along with a dozen staffers and their friends will split a second place prize of $250,000 from last week’s Mega Millions jackpot of $640 million.
The group got all five of the nu More...
Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. continues to wrestle crime in his district, installing a series of surveillance cameras in the area to help snare unsuspecting criminals caught in the act. More...
Congressmember Joseph Crowley (D–Queens/The Bronx) expressed shock that House Republicans rejected his amendment intended to protect families from the hidden dangers posed by wireless audio and video baby monitors.
Crowley said his amendment would h More...
On March 28, Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. returned to his alma mater, St. John’s Preparatory H.S., formerly Mater Christi, with his brothers Perry and Paul, where they spoke to students during their annual career day. More...
Following a sensational trial, in which a police officer forced a 25-year-old schoolteacher into an alleyway and was convicted on several counts, but not rape, an angry Assemblymember Aravella Simotas (D–Astoria) introduced legislation on Monda More...
With the help of Wayne Scherif of the Kiwanis Club of Howard Beach, Queens County Savings Bank and NY Community Bank, the Shave the Stache for Cash Campaign, is continuing its successful run. More...
Assemblymember Aravella Simotas held a rally at William Cullen Bryant H.S. on April 3, in opposition to the city Department of Education’s proposal to dramatically overhaul the structure of the Western Queens institution. More...
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