To prepare for the thousands of veterans who will be returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan, LaGuardia Community College has received a $45,000 grant from the City University of New York (CUNY) to create an outreach and retention program for that population. The LaGuardia Veterans Services Collaboration Initiative will provide a host of services to returning vets and reservists, […]
$105 M Mega Ball Ticket Sold In Astoria
The ticket that brought some lucky winner the single $105 million prize in last Friday’s Mega-Ball jackpot drawing was sold in Astoria at The Magazine Store on 31st street, owned by Ahmed Salauddin. The winner, whoever he or she may be, scratched off 24, 32, 34, 36, and 39 and Mega Ball number 6, numbers that came up in the […]
Queens Ys Join In Nation’s Largest Health Day For Kids
The Queens YMCAs Of Greater New York will join more than 1,500 YMCAs nationwide in the 16th annual YMCA Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 14. An opportunity for kids and families to “Put Play in Their Day,” this special event uses free, fun, engaging and creative activities to encourage children and families to adopt behaviors that support a healthy […]
New Hotels Planned For Long Island City
Plans to open a new luxury hotel in Long Island City this spring with rates beginning at over $300 per night, are on track. The Ravel Hotel, as it will be named, replaces the infamous QPlaza Motel near the Queensboro Bridge. Along the East River waterfront, the Q-Plaza is being converted and expanded from 23 rooms into the 78-room Ravel […]
Astoria Civic Association Holds Scholarship Dinner-Dance
The 74-year-old Astoria Civic Association held its annual dinner-dance Saturday night March 31 to benefit the Judge Charles J. Vallone Scholarship Fund. The scholarships reward Queens high school graduates who embody academic excellence and demonstrate extensive involvement with community service. City Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr., whose grandfather is the namesake of the scholarship and whose father, former Council Speaker […]
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All Saints: +Apr. 21, Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Rummage sale, great bargains, reasonably priced refreshments, 43- 12 46th St., Sunnyside; 718.729.8523. **** Atonement Lutheran: +Apr. 28, Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Easter Square Dance. +Sunday worship services in English at 10:15 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m.; Sunday worship service in Spanish, noon; Mondays, 6 p.m., fitness classes, 30-61 87th St., […]
Amalgamated Bank Appoints LIC Branch Manager
Amalgamated Bank has appointed experienced banker Jocelyn “Josh” Andre, 58, as the manager of its new branch that will be opening in Long Island City in April 2007. Some neighborhoods in Queens seem to have too many bank branches, but in the area of 21st Street and 36th Avenue, there are none. Residents in neighborhoods lacking a local bank branch […]
114th Precinct Blotter Highlights:
9 Arrested In 114th Precinct Assault On April 9April 9, Easter Monday and the second to last day of Passover, was marked in the 114th Police Precinct by an assault on a victim that extended between 29th Street and Hoyt Avenue North to 23rd Avenue and 27th Street and saw eight males and one female arrested. The males, a 12- year-old Hispanic, two 13-year-old Hispanics, a 14-year-old black, […]
Borough-Wide Blotter
104th Precinct Hunt Bank Bandit Queens detectives last week released a photo of a man being sought in connection with the robbery of a Ridgewood bank. Detectives are seeking help from the public to identify and locate the suspect who, they say, walked into a Commerce Bank branch at 66-62 Fresh Pond Road on April 2, where he handed a […]
Board 4 Confronts Issue Of Disappearing Recycling Bins
Community Board 4’s April meeting, at Flanders Fields Veterans of Foreign Wars Post on 108th Street, was brisk. In 40 minutes, Chairman Louis Walker, District Manager Richard Italiano and the members handled matters such as street permits and liquor licenses, heard from an outside speaker and calmed a remonstrance by a member who believed a certain situation in the 110th […]