Sac’s Place Italian restaurant and coal oven pizzeria at 25-41 Broadway, Astoria, celebrated its 20th anniversary on Wednesday, August 5 with City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. and Assemblymember Michael Gianaris among the regular customers, local notables and elected officials invited to join in the revelry. Sac’s Place owners Anthony and Domenico Sacramone will celebrate further by rolling back on-premise dinner […]
Curious Frog Offers Free Shakespeare, Greek Comedy
The name Curious Frog is appropriate—it certainly makes you wonder. “What’s that all about?” I was certainly curious when I saw a chalk advertisement for free Shakespeare scrawled on the sidewalk in Astoria Park last summer. Happily, my curiosity paid off that same night when I took in Curious Frog Theater Company’s clever and captivating production of “Much Ado About […]
The Pulpit
Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. All Nations Baptist: •Sunday, 2:30-5:30 p.m., for three months, free English classes which have already begun, registration required, limited space, 86-76 80th St., Woodhaven; 718.296.2025. **** All Saints’: •Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Join the Sunnyside Drum Corps Marching Band, boys/girls ages 7-17; band information. 43-12 46th St., Sunnyside; […]
Bd. Of Elections Issues List For Dem Primary Candidates
When City Council seats are up for election, as they are this year, crowds of candidates usually appear, and this year is no exception, with 50 prospective candidates vying for nominations for 10 contested Queens seats in the September 15 primary elections. The four seats not being contested belong to three Democrats—Peter Vallone Jr. (Astoria), James Gennaro (Fresh Meadows) and […]
Queens Lawmakers Sound Off On Health Care
Congressmember Anthony Weiner ran into the same rough waters as Democratic lawmakers elsewhere in the country who are trying to sell President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plan at a town hall meeting he held on the subject at a Howard Beach senior center on Monday. The Queens/Brooklyn lawmaker didn’t get any of the in-your-face antagonism some of his colleagues have […]
Much Confusion Over Setting Date For 38th AD Special Election
No new date for a special election to fill the seat vacated by Assemblymember Anthony Seminerio has been announced by Governor David Paterson. Paterson announced a date for an election last Friday, but then canceled it some four hours later. Reports that the governor’s bizarre actions were sparked by two Queens lawmakers, Congressmember Gregory Meeks (D- Southeast Queens) and state […]
Queens Roofer Electrocuted
A roofer installing tiles on a College Point home last week was killed when his aluminum ladder hit a live electric wire, sending 120 volts through his body. Fire officials said William Barrett’s body was tossed to the ground by the earlymorning shock at the two-story home on 117th Street. Fellow workers on the job site told police they watched […]
Ex-Con Charged In Deliveryman Death
An ex-con who mowed down a food deliveryman last weekend while fleeing police in Long Island City is facing manslaughter and homicide charges. A team of Queens Narcotics cops spotted Martin Ocasio, 33, buying drugs near the Ravenswood Houses and moved in to arrest him at about 6:30 p.m. on August 8, police said. When the cops approached Ocasio, he […]
New College Point Police Academy Plans Approved
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall said on Thursday, August 6, that she has approved plans for a $1 billion state-of-the-art police academytraining facility academic complex in College Point where recruits, civilians and veteran officers will receive required training and refresher courses. The plans now go before the City Planning Commission at the start of the city Uniform Land Use Review […]
