A project allowing New Yorkers to apply online for Food Stamps, which will be helpful to working families and seniors, is expected to begin shortly in Long Island City, an anti-hunger advocate announced last week. Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, said the new program would be available at the Center for Hope International/East […]

Rochelle Slovin, director of the Museum of the Moving Image, recently announced the creation of a major new film Web site, Moving Image Source. The site, made possible with support from the Hazen Polsky Foundation, will launch this fall at movingimagesource.us. “Moving Image Source will be an important contribution to the fields of film history and film research,” Slovin said. […]

7Replacing old windows with new vinyl windows is a top home improvement project for adding to the resale value of a home, noted Remodeling Magazine in its “Cost vs. Value Report 2006”. Remodeling Magazine, a leading national trade periodical, conducted its 19th annual survey of real estate professionals across the country, asking them to compare 16 typical remodeling projects for […]

Summer reading is always fun, but this year there’s a thrilling twist, because Adult Summer Reading is all about mysteries. Enjoy great librarian picks with our recommended booklist, including plenty of hairraising murderous tales; join a killer book discussion; explore psychic phenomena and the paranormal, and find the real man, like magic, behind the myth of Houdini. Once you sign […]

Employees of Ridgewood Savings Bank gave a savings lesson to approximately 1,000 junior high school students in various public and private schools in Queens, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Long Island as part of the American Bankers Association Education Foundation’s National Teach Children to Save Program held on April 24. Twenty-two Ridgewood Savings Bank employees joined thousands of bankers across the […]

Sunday, May 27: + A 26-year-old Hispanic male was charged with criminal trespass after he was observed by a victim looking in windows at the rear of 30-54 12th St. without the victim’s permission. + A 28-year-old Hispanic male was charged with menacing, assault, and harassment after he threw a wooden bat at a victim at 12-11 Astoria Blvd. Saturday, […]

All Saints’: +Jun. 9, Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Strawberry fair, great international foods, lots to buy, bargains galore, vendors wanted, 43-12 46th St., Sunnyside; 718.729.8523 (Rectory). **** Atonement Lutheran: +Sunday worship services in English at 10:15 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m.; Sunday worship service in Spanish, noon; Mondays, 2:30- 6 p.m.,afterschool program, pre-K (free for 4-year-olds) enroll now […]