Another rate increase for Con Edison? Seventeen percent more, which will cost us $1.2 billion? Are you serious, given this utility company’s culpability in last year’s debacle blackout in parts of Queens and the chaos caused by the blown pipeline in the city? These questions are being asked of virtually every Con Ed customer, and we need answers from all […]
SJU Concealed Actions
To The Editor:St. John’s University’s recent decision to site a 485-bed dormitory in Jamaica Estates without consulting the community in advance came as a shock and disappointment to me and to local residents. My dismay was compounded when it became apparent that this decision was kept secret even from St. John’s top community relations people. Whenever any institution makes decisions and conducts […]
Beg Pardon
The article “Buckeye Pipeline Fuels City, Airports” by Richard Gentilviso in the Gazette edition of Sept. 26, 2007 should have indicated that a fire/explosion for a jet fuel pipeline could impact “hundreds or thousands of feet”. • • • The pastor in the caption identifying the fence painters at Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church in the Gazette of Sept. […]
On the brief side…
Heating Help For Low-Income Families The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services will release $13.5 million from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LI HEAP) to help low-income families heat their homes during the fall and winter months ahead, Congressmember Joseph Crowley announced. The Queens/Bronx Democrat, noting that energy costs are expected to rise again this year, stated, […]
Back-to-School Buys Head September 1947 Concerns
Get into a conversation with a long-time Queens resident and you’re likely to discover a subscriber of the Long Island Star- Journal, a daily paper that informed the community about local and world news until it folded in 1968. A banner across the Star- Journal masthead reminded readers that the newspaper’s name came from the merger of the Long Island […]
9 Officers Earn Cop Of The Month Honors At The 114th
Nine police officers whose beats run from Astoria Park to Queens Plaza South and along Broadway, Steinway Street and Ditmars Boulevard were honored for helping to keep the community safe over the summer. Cop-of-the-Month awards for June, July and August were the top agenda item at the September meeting of the 114th Precinct Community Council, held at Riccardo’s. Police Officers […]
Vallone Proposes Licenses For Etching Acid Possession
While he maintains that graffiti in any form is unlawful, City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. reserves his greatest displeasure for any vandalism done with etching acid because the acid is dangerous, destroys property and is extremely costly for city government. Vallone recently introduced his most recent anti-graffiti gambit, a law to require a license to possess etching acid and a […]
Markey Would Allow More Time To Pursue Child Sexual Abuse Cases
Taking hope from a bill which passed the state legislature in the last session and was signed into law, Assemblymember Margaret Markey said she will try again in the 2008 session to have legislation passed by both houses to extend the statute of limitations to pursue criminal and civil cases of child sexual abuse. Markey (D- Maspeth) noted, “At present, […]
1942 Home Prices Have 2007 Equivalents
In September 1942 the United States had been at war with the Axis Powers for almost 10 months. New York had ended night baseball games for the rest of World War II and Irving Berlin’s musical revue “This Is the Army” opened at the Broadway Theater in New York on July 4. Firstclass stamps were three cents each, the subway […]
Feds Urge Storm Battered Queens Victims To File For Aid By Oct. 30
Storm battered Queens residents are being urged by federal officials to apply for assistance to cover the cost of repairing or rebuilding their homes and lives that were left in a shambles by severe storms, flooding and a tornado that tore through the borough on August 8. Maryanne Jackson, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) coordinating officer for the Queens […]