An 80-year-old woman was killed and two others were severly injured in Astoria after a van lost control and went in reverse down 82nd Street, crossed the intersection at Broadway, and backed up into a food cart. More...
Carrying signs and chanting, hundreds marched up and down Grand Avenue in Maspeth on Saturday, August 27th, in protest of the planned conversion of a Holiday Inn Express into a homeless shelter. More...
With the calendar showing Election Day rapidly closing in on New York City voters, the Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress kicked off its 2016 Voter Registration Drive aimed at the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. More...
Activists, local lawmakers and city officials gathered on August 25 at a rally in Woodside to show support for a transgender woman who was bashed with a hammer on August 17.“We will never accept or tolerate violence against the trans community in Woo More...
A dimwitted passenger set off a security alert at LaGuardia Airport on August 21 when he walked past a security checkpoint before he was screened, a law enforcement source said.The man was inside LaGuardia’s Terminal B at about 9 p.m. More...
Police are searching for two suspects who assaulted and robbed two men inside an Astoria apartment on August 23.Cops released a surveillance photo of one of the suspects (see photo) who entered the apartment on 33rd Street near 31st Avenue with an ac More...
Resorts World Casino New York City hosted its semi-annual blood drive in partnership with the American Red Cross on Thursday, August 18 on the Times Square Casino Level in thecorridor leading to the MTA skybridge. More...
“Discover the Peloponnese” is the 2016 Greece tourism slogan. My answer? Discover the honey of the Peloponnese. Greece’s honey has a taste exceptional from American products. More...
Make any night special at Tu Casa on Steinway Street or their other locations on Metropolitan Avenue in Kew Gardens or Queens Blvd. in Forest Hills. More...
Though mired in controversy – from its mysterious federal founder, to Grover Cleveland’s hurried designation of holiday status after the bloody Pullman Strike of 1894 – Labor Day, the country’s unofficial end-of-summer benchma More...
No Excuses To The Editor: Labor Day is a national toast to the American worker. It’s a time to relax with family and friends as we say cheers to another year of hard work and goodbye to another summer. More...
Dear Savvy Senior,What can seniors do to protect themselves from identity theft? My brother-in-law, who’s 77, recently had his identity stolen and I want to make sure it doesn’t happen to me.Worried RelativeDear Worried, More...
In Forest Hills, where the City of New York renamed a street in honor of Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for national office by a major political party, a wide-ranging group of leading New York women’s groups and elected officials joined More...
For the fifth year in a row, the United States Tennis Association is providing a kiosk that is being used to offer Queens tourism information to spectators attending the US Open Tennis Championships from August 29 through September 11 at the USTA Bil More...
The Mets jersey worn by Mike Piazza in the first professional baseball game in New York after the September 11 attacks will be displayed at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum later this year.The jersey will not make it back to New York City in time to be o More...
Police at the Queens Highway Patrol Unit and local precincts will be hitting the streets this weekend in an NYPD Labor Day crackdown on motorists who are drunk or impaired and motorists who text or talk on cell phones, smart phones and other electron More...
A 56-year-old Pennsylvania man died of a heart attack on August 21; shortly after he jumped overboard during a booze fueled cruise in Flushing Bay.Cops said Vernon Witsell was partying on the Skyline Princess, a cruise ship that sails from the World’ More...
Police in Ridgewood are searching for a suspect who stabbed a woman during a robbery outside Grover Cleveland High School on August 21.Cops said the woman was sitting on a bench on Fairview Avenue near Stanhope Street at about 9 p.m. More...
Stacey Pheffer Amato joined the buffet line to assist in serving veterans at Senator Joseph Addabbo’s annual BBQ, held at the Howard Beach Motor Club on August 27. More...
Academics are in the air as the borough readies for the upcoming school year. Thus, it’s the perfect time to learn Latin dancing, Brazilian martial arts, yoga, paper-making, and even rocket-launching. Here’s more info. More...
Presidential debates, which can destroy a candidate with one wrong answer, are less than a month away, with the first of three scheduled to be held on Monday, September 26th, at Hofstra University on Long Island. More...
Queens Democrats will hold Primary Elections on Tuesday, September 9 to select the party’s candidates for 2 state senate and 4 state Assembly seats that will be on the ballot for the November 8 elections, seeking seats for the 2017-18 term.&nbs More...
“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” —Franklin Delano Roosevelt More...
About 1,000 jobs-seekers turned out for the sixth annual job fair sponsored by state Senator Jose Peralta, along with Woodside on the Move and the Queens Center Mall. More...
