Brendan Fay from St. Pats for All, community activist Jesus Lebron, Robert Pinter from Stop the Arrests and Councilmember Daniel Dromm participated in the Silent March to End Stop-and-Frisk held on Father’s Day. More...
Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, Queens Library President & CEO Thomas W. Galante, children from P.S. 111 in Long Island City and the community participated in a carnival at the library that had a message. More...
The United Community Civic Association (UCCA) held its annual BBQ fundraiser and reception on June 14 at Central Lounge in Astoria. More than one hundred persons attended, including members from Mount Sinai Queens and SHAREing and CAREing. More...
Last September, Breezy Point’s Bob Turner sprang a huge surprise and gave Queens Republicans a rare seat in the New York City Congressional delegation. More...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Queens Development Group, a joint venture between Sterling Equities and Related Companies announced on June 14, the development plans for transforming long-blighted Willets Point into a dynamic mixed-use neighborhood and d More...
Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. attended a rally on June 13, organized by Councilmember Fernando Cabrera, supporting the “Right to Worship” resolution #1155. More...
The luncheon meeting June 12, at Dazies Restaurant was the first public meeting of the Sunnyside Chamber helmed by new President Swain Weiner, after past- President Rebecca Barker had to step down due to family issues. More...
A rarity in New York City politics, a give-’em-hell Democratic primary, will play out next Tuesday, when four candidates will push and shove, but mostly pull out hordes of party voters in their efforts to become the candidate for the newly-draw More...
QSAC’s gala, Fitting Together, raised more than $200,000 to support programs and services for children and adults with autism in New York City and Long Island. More...
hree decades ago, a group of community activists from Astoria, Long Island City, Dutch Kills and elsewhere, banded together to rescue a neighborhood weekly newspaper which had started up in the area but was threatened with being abandoned by its owne More...
ongressmember Geraldine Ferraro was quick to reply in response to concerns from area residents after the USPS proposed that the Bulova corporate building near the Grand Central Parkway serve as the new site of the Woolsey Post Office branch. More...
BY JOHN TOSCANO, FORMER PUBLISHER OF THE QUEENS GAZETTE
hen I acquired the Queens Gazette in mid-June 1983 to embark on a new career as a weekly newspaper publisher, I was fortunate to be starting a new venture among so many people whose acquaintances had been made during my previous 33 years at the New Y More...
n 1991, the Queens Gazette in its ninth year and Tony Barsamian, who had taken over as publisher and editor-inchief from John Toscano, was in the process of building a team to run the editorial and advertising sides. More...
orno Has To Go!’ screamed the headline of an article that appeared in the February 23, 1994 issue of the Gazette that told the story of area residents protesting an adult video store in Astoria. More...
On June 15, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer joined local community leaders and the residents of Borden Avenue in calling on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to stop excessive noise produced by idling LIRR trains at various hours throughout the day. More...
ew York Power Authority (NYPA) Chairman and CEO C.D. “Rapp” Rappleyea welcomed former Governor Charles Poletti to the NYPA Poletti Power Plant in Long Island City to celebrate its 20th anniversary. More...
Frank Sinatra School: 1999 Dream Bears Fruit In 2009
ntertainer and artist Tony Bennett in 1999 voiced a dream for a high school for students of music and visual arts in Astoria, the Queens community where the singer got his start. More...
Flushing Bay Odors Persist Despite Transfer Station Assurances
n July 2001, then Queens Borough President Claire Shulman and then City Councilmember Helen Marshall agreed that years of federal plans for the environmental restoration of Flushing Bay had resulted only in confusion and accomplished next to nothing. More...
Willets Point Development Proceeds, But Meets Snags
n 2004 Mayor Michael Bloomberg embarked upon a long cherished goal of his administration and that of several of the city’s planners and chief executives before him—transforming a 62-acre conglomeration of auto repair shops and junkyards c More...
Monserrate’s Once Bright Career Ends With Assault Conviction
BY LINDA J. WILSON
n 2001 a former Marine and New York City Police Officer won an open Democratic Party primary election for the 21st City Council district seat vacated by Helen Marshall on her election as Queens borough president. More...
There’s a ghost spur on the Long Island Railroad, just west of the Forest Hills station. Glance to the right from the window as you ride the train going east from Woodside and coming into Forest Hills. More...
Fresh Direct Set To Move To South Bronx From Long Island City
nline grocery service Fresh Direct is set to move from the Long Island City headquarters it has occupied since 2002 to Mott Haven, The Bronx, having outgrown the space it presently occupies. More...
NYC Reaches Half Of Million Tree Goal; Queens At 25 Percent
ive years into the Million Trees program, New York City finds itself slightly more than halfway to its goal of planting one million trees throughout the city. More...
The senior commencement ceremonyfor the Saint Demetrios H.S. graduating class of 2012 was held on June 6 at the Petros Patrides Cultural Center at Saint Demetrios School. More...
Despite the 7 to 3 loss by the Mets to the Cincinnati Reds on June 15, fans at Citi Field still reserved some positive energy for REO Speedwagon. More...
Congressmember Bob Turner delivered the commencement address to the Class of 2012 at the St. Margaret’s School graduation ceremony on June 15, in Middle Village, Queens. He is seen here with the graduates. More...
LeAp’s student artists of two Queens schools will present their original large-scale public artworks—school lunchroom tables that they transformed into beautiful and meaningful works of art addressing important social issues in their comm More...
Congressmember Joe Crowley, Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Carter Strickland, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, representatives from the Wynwood Gardens Civic Association and concerned residents toured flood-prone areas of Wo More...
Beginning in September with the start of the new school year for 2012–2013, rules for social media use go into effect for the first time in New York City’s public schools. More...
Elected officials and community leaders including Congressmember Joe Crowley, state Senator Joe Addabbo and Assemblymember Phil Goldfeder announced their endorsement of Hakeem Jeffries for Congress on June 15 at the Cross Bay Diner in Howard Beach. More...
Astoria is a thriving neighborhood. Accessible to Manhattan, it has the feel of both an urban and small town environment with safe streets and a long and varied list of dining and cultural destinations. More...
Councilmember Mark Weprin joined Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski, for the re-opening of a children’s playground in Alley Pond Park after it was destroyed by an overnight fire on Sept. 28, 2011. More...
Residents participated in the fifth annual Senior Olympics at the Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation. Their age and health issues might have slowed their pace, but not their competitive spirit or joy of life. More...
n the Feb. 2, 1982 issue of the Gazette it was reported that the MTA announced the closing of the No. 7 train between Times Square and the Vernon-Jackson Station between the hours of midnight to 5 a.m. Monday through Friday, and from 1 a.m. More...
lashback to 1982: Gasoline was 91 cents a gallon, and the average monthly rent in the United States was $320. The first CD player was sold in Japan, and Time Magazine’s Man of the Year was “The Computer”. More...
ometime in the early 1980s, a weekly newspaper appeared in Astoria which was published by the Reverend Moon, who was at that time a new arrival in this country from East Asia and settling in Western Queens and Flushing. More...
Sixty years ago, the Manhattan Project was conceived as a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada. More...
In April, Social Security announced 52 new Compassionate Allowances conditions to the growing list of severe medical conditions that qualify for expedited medical decisions. More...
Many people are at risk of developing gum disease due to poor oral hygiene and may need to see a periodontist for further evaluation and treatment. Dentists in New York City are capable of, and routinely treat, mild forms of gum disease. More...
or Astoria residents Donald Del Giorno and his friend John Manchesi it was a football miracle. Del Giorno was the lucky winner of Z100’s Super Bowl XXI giveaway, which awarded him a pair of tickets to watch the N.Y. More...
t the ribbon-cutting ceremony of what would become the tallest building in Queens, Councilmember Walter McCaffrey described the new Citicorp Tower as “a victory for Western Queens, its civic leadership, Community Board 2 and local elected offic More...
In honor of the Queens Gazette’s 30th anniversary, Assemblymember Aravella Simotas and state Senator Michael Gianaris presented the newspaper’s Publisher and Owner Tony Barsamian with a L More...
n attack on an alleged chop shop operator in his lair near 55th Street in Maspeth in February of 1994 led to the arrest of 13 individuals, including a reputed captain in the Bonnano crime syndicate, by detectives from the Queens District Attorney&rsq More...
New Control Tower At LaGuardia Was A Community Concern
ccording to representatives of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey proposed traffic rerouting for access and egress to LaGuardia Airport was effective. More...
New Ball Parks Spurred By Former Speaker Vallone Sr.
n 1998, then City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. battled with then Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over the location of a new home for the New York Yankees American League major league baseball team. More...
t has long been known as the Boulevard of Death, and with good reason. Queens Boulevard, which runs from Crescent Street at the foot of the Queensboro (Edward I. More...
n August 2005, according to AAA figures, the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $2.587, a gallon of gasoline in the middle octane rating range was $2.768 and a gallon of premium gasoline cost $2.82. More...
arring a miracle, at the end of the 2011-12 academic year a high school which first opened its classrooms to Queens youngsters in 1889 will cease to exist. The William Cullen Bryant H.S. art deco building at 48-10 31st Ave. More...
Councilmember Peter Koo, despite criticism from home and abroad, is continuing with his mission to honor the Asian girls and women who suffered during World War II known as “comfort women”. More...
“One thinks of one’s own self-made walls when reading Constantine P. Cavafy’s poem, ‘The Walls’,” said Dr. Constantine E. Kosmas, keynote speaker at the Cavafy’s Clear-Cut View: Poetry & Truth lecture. More...
Maybe you vote red, or maybe you vote blue. One thing is certain: with the upcoming election, we Americans seem to feel what divides us more keenly than what unites us. More...
State Senator Michael Gianaris and Astoria resident Miss New York Kaitlin Monte are seen here during visit to the Capitol in Albany on June 13. More...
Borough-Wide Alerts Beware Utility Man Scam Queens police officials are warning borough residents–particularly seniors–to be on the lookout for a man posing as a worker for the city Department of Environmental Protection who scams residen More...
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall was surrounded by soldiers as she helped to cut a cake with a ceremonial saber at Borough Hall, June 14 in celebration of the 237th birthday of the U.S. Army. More...
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