Text messaging abbreviations may look like gibberish to many people, but decoding them is all in a day’s work at Information Services at the Queens Borough Public Library. Since the Queens Library began providing reference by email and chat, the librarians have worked on becoming proficient at decoding in addition to giving accurate, useful answers and referrals. The Queens Library […]
Maloney Receives Award From Working Families Groups
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney’s efforts to improve the American quality of life through family-friendly workplace policies has been recognized by two major working family organizations, who will award her the inaugural Best of Congress Award next month. The Queens/Manhattan lawmaker will be cited, based on her voting record and sponsorship and promotion of legislation to aid working families, as well as […]
114th Police Precinct Blotter Highlights
Monday, August 11: A 23-year-old Hispanic male was observed disobeying a traffic device at Astoria Boulevard and Crescent Street. When he was stopped, he was found to be driving without a license. He was charged with unlicensed operator and disobeying a traffic device. Sunday, August 10: • A 16-year-old Hispanic female was charged with assault and harassment after she kicked […]
Boro-Wide Blotter
104th Precinct Drunken Man Attacks Medic Police arrested a 45-year-old Queens man on August 11 after he attacked a paramedic inside a Woodhaven ambulance garage. Cops said Alan Donohue followed an ambulance into the garage at 98th Street and 99th Avenue at about 7 p.m. on August 11 where he pummeled a side window of the rig, demanding that a […]
TWC Awards Scholarships To Queens H.S. Seniors
Faith Aronowitz, Lisa Augello, Jane Chin, Thomas Chou, Grace Lee and Anne Tsay, all Queens residents and seniors attending high schools in the borough, each received a $2,000 Time Warner Cable Scholarship Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and community service in an award program exclusive to children of Time Warner Cable customers. This year, a total of $60,000 […]
4-Year Graduation Rate Rises
The glass is half full. Graduation rates for four-year city public high schools now stand at 52.7 percent, according to numbers released by the New York State Education Department last week. The 2007 results represent an increase in city graduation rates from 49.8 percent in 2006 and 46.5 percent in 2005. “Today’s numbers confirm once again that steady progress is […]
Main LaG CC Building Named For Founding President
LaGuardia Community College has renamed its first campus building, the M-building, in honor of the institution’s founding president, Dr. Joseph Shenker. The August 14 dedication ceremony for Joseph Shenker Hall honored the man who from 1970 to 1989 led the youngest CUNY community college to national prominence for its innovative teaching approaches and cooperative education program. Gail O. Mellow, LaGuardia’s […]
Despina Siolas Earns Ph.D
Despina Siolas of Bayside and Mattituck, New York was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Genetics on May 22, 2008 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The title of her dissertation was “shRNA Barcode Screens as a Tool for Discovering Gene Function”. She is enrolled in the federally funded MD/PhD. program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, […]
Newcomers H.S. Holds Registration
Newcomers H.S. Academy for New Americans, will begin registration during the week of August 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and also on September 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at 28-01 41st Ave., Long Island City. Mary Burke, principal, announced that the school is designed to help immigrant youngsters adjust to American culture and prepare them for […]
TWC-Cool in Your Code FIOD Partnership Bows
Cool in Your Code (CiNYC), the hit infotainment program that profiles what’s cool, new, and undiscovered throughout New York’s 200+ ZIP codes, is now available On Demand through a creative partnership with Time Warner Cable. As part of the new Video On Demand Channel 1278, known as Find It On Demand (FIOD), individual three- to five-minute segments will allow viewers […]