Participants in the Queens Health Coalition "Junior-Senior Partnership" intergenerational program workshop hosted by Voces Latinas and featuring the topic of Healthy Relationships gathered in Woodside. The "Junior-Senior Partnership", an intergenerational program created by the Queens Health Coalition (QHC), taps into the experiences and expertise of young and older adults to engage and empower both ends of the spectrum with healthy […]
Gianaris Assured That Poletti Plant Will Close Next January
Gianaris Assured That Poletti Plant Will Close Next January Assemblymember Michael Gianaris Assemblymember Michael Gianaris has received assurances from the New York Power Authority (NYPA) chairman that the Poletti power plant in Astoria will close as scheduled by next January. Gianaris had sent NYPA Authority Chairman Richard Kessel a letter requesting that the authority comply with the community agreement […]
108th Precinct Cops Nab Bank Robber, Earn Awards
108th Precinct Cops Nab Bank Robber, Earn Awards By Thomas Cogan The February meeting of the 108th Police Precinct Community Council had a Cop of the Month ceremony involving five officers and a crime report that moved Precinct Commander Deputy Inspector Thomas Kavanagh to lament the persistence of bank robberies, burglaries and grand larcenies in the precinct that is […]
Community Education Council Election Process Begins
Community Education Council Election Process Begins The Department of Education (DOE) has begun the 2009 Community Education Council biennial election process by responding to criticisms that parents do not have enough say in matters pertaining to their children’s education. For the first time, parents interested in running for a Community Education Council seat can nominate themselves online at a designated Web […]
Riis Settlement House Holds Black Cultural Expo
Riis Settlement House Holds Black Cultural Expo Young participants in Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House after school programs pose before Afrikan Poetry Theatre drummers at the Riis Black Cultural Expo February 21. Photo Nicole Albergo-Wright The Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House at 10-25 41st Ave., Long Island City, celebrated the rich history and culture of the African-American […]
Gregory B. Braca Is TD Bank New York Metro President
Gregory B. Braca Is TD Bank New York Metro President TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank, named Gregory B. Braca Metro President for its New York and Northern New Jersey markets, which include New York’s five boroughs and North and Central New Jersey. In this role, which he has held since March 2008, Braca is responsible for implementing a comprehensive […]
American Airlines Puts Int’l. Destinations On Sale
American Airlines Puts Int’l. Destinations On Sale Get out the guidebooks and take the suitcases out of the attic: American Airlines is putting nearly all its international destinations on sale for travel now through mid-May. American, a founding member of the global oneworld® Alliance, is offering great low fares for travel from the United States (excluding Alaska) to its […]
Police News
Car Fumes Kill Queens Senior, 79Car Fumes Kill Queens Senior, 79 A 79-year-old man died and his wife was hospitalized on February 28 after fumes from their idling car crept from their garage into the couple’s North Queens home. Police said Ernest Codelia and his wife, Mary Rivera, 69, were sleeping in their bedroom when they were overcome by fumes from their 2008 Lexus sedan, […]
Feds Cream Fake Mr. Softees
Feds Cream Fake Mr. Softees Two Queens ice cream vendors last month took a licking from a federal court judge who ruled the pair were selling soft-serve cones from fake Mr. Softee trucks. New Jersey-based Mr. Softee Company was awarded a $20,000 judgment against vendors Akop Papazian and the M. Pete Soft Ice Cream Corporation for trademark infringement in a […]
Queens Blaze A Murder/Suicide
Queens Blaze A Murder/Suicide The father of a Queens College student left the girl a final voice message last week before murdering his wife and then setting fire to their apartment to take his own life, law enforcement officials said. Police said Yon Ho Kim, 52, and his wife, Sun He Kim, 45, were found burned beyond recognition in their […]