Aceremony to rename the Woodside Post Office Building in honor of the late Thomas Manton, by Congressmember Joseph Crowley and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, will be held next week before a crowd of 150 invited guests. Among the latter will be Manton’s family, New York State’s two U.S. Senators, Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Borough President Helen […]

Assemblyman Meng (D-Flushing) welcomed Inspector Matthew Whelan, new commandar of the 109th precinct. He was accompanied by Detective Ki Soo Kim of the 109th Precinct’s Community Affairs as they visited Assemblyman Meng in his District Office. Assemblyman Meng stated, “We are happy to welcome Inspector Whelan to his new position and look forward to working together on behalf of the […]

At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, Pilgrims and Native American Indians sat down to a feast of geese, ducks, deer, corn, oysters, fish and berries, giving thanks for a successful harvest. They would not go hungry at the end of that first year in the Plymouth colony. At Thanksgiving, almost four centuries later, are there hungry people in New York […]

The Rev. Dr. Robert G. Stephanopoulos, Ph.D was honored for his outstanding teaching at St. John’s University in Jamaica. The award ceremony took place at the second annual Evening of Greek Culture and Cuisine on Friday evening, October 13 in Marillac Terrace of Marillac Hall. The award was sponsored by the Modern Greek Language and Literature Program of the Languages […]

On Sunday, December 10 at 3:00 PM, The Amy Marshall Dance Company brings their enthusiastically received composition “A Klezmer Nutcracker” back to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center for an encore performance. When the company premiered the piece – a fascinating retelling of the Chanukah story through dance and the music of the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra – at QPAC last year, […]

Five years after the second worst air disaster in U.S. history, family and friends gathered on November 12 to dedicate a memorial to the victims of American Airlines Flight 587. The Airbus A300, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport into a residential neighborhood in Belle Harbor at precisely 9:17 a.m. on […]

Despite an agreement signed by the major developers of the Long Island City waterfront four years ago to build a public library, no work on a library has begun at the site. A coalition of community activists last week demanded that the developers, Avalon Bay and Queens West, live up to their agreement and start construction. “The children of Long […]