It’s time to unwrap the tinsel and place the Christmas tree curbside for recycling by the city Department of Sanitation (DOS). Christmas tree curbside collection began Monday, January 4 and will go through Friday, January 15 according toDOS officials. Follow these rules for curbside pickup: •Do not wrap or place trees in plastic or plastic bags. •Remove tree from the […]
Queens Library Literacy Zone Welcome Centers Open In LIC
There’s something new in Long Island City: Queens Library Literacy Zone Welcome Centers. They offer new cutting-edge urban library services to the kind of information and referrals Queens Library traditionally provides, but more intensely. The New York State Education Department has awarded the Queens Library a three-year grant of more than $950,000 to help improve the economic futures of the […]
Drunk Drivers Face Tougher Testing Under New NYPD Process
Suspected drunk drivers who refuse to submit to a Breathalyzer test at the scene of a crash will now be whisked off the street and taken to a designated precinct for quick blood testing, police officials said. Cops will speed up processing of the suspected drunk drivers by obtaining a warrant for the blood testing. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said […]
W Line Should Stay
Yesterday, Tuesday, January 5, area commuters joined City Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. in a rally at the Ditmars Boulevard terminus of the W subway-elevated train line to protest the elimination of the line, one of a number of cuts the Metropolitan Transit Authority plans to make in order to alleviate a budget shortfall of some $383 million. The MTA, the […]
Letters to the Editor
Don’t Fund Heroin Manual To The Editor: In a time of severe budget constraints and extraordinary deficits it stands to reason that every single taxpayer dollar should be spent all the more wisely and all the more responsibly. That is why it is such an outrage that the City’s Health Department spent taxpayer dollars on 70,000 pamphlets that tell how […]
Building Our City’s Future
Great cities grow and change. And despite the lingering impact of the national recession, growth and change are reshaping New York–for the better. Our city’s population, already a record 8.4 million people, continues to climb–a sure sign that people like what they see in New York’s future, and want to be part of it. And as 2009 draws to a […]
Gazette Calendar Of Events
Community Meetings Dates & times are subject to change, call to confirm. Associations Jan. 9, Feb. 13, 1 p.m., Woodhaven Residents’ Block; Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 78-15 Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven. Jan. 26, Apr. 27, Jun. 29, 8 p.m., Bayside Hills Civic; Colonial Church of Bayside, 217th Street/56th Avenue, Bayside. Boards Jan. 7, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Board 2; Sunnyside […]
‘Chicken’ Video Disputes Teen Stab Story
Queens detectives last week punched a hole in the story spun by a Long Island City teenager charged with fatally stabbing a man on Christmas Eve. Cyan Brown, 16, is facing a manslaughter charge for fatally stabbing Thomas Winston, 29, after an alleged altercation at a 21st Street chicken restaurant on December 25. After she surrendered on December 29 to […]
Borough-Wide Blotter
102nd Precinct Do-It-Yourself Bashing A 40-year-old day laborer found himself behind bars on December 21 after he bashed a fellow laborer in the head with a tool outside a Home Depot store in Ozone Park. Police said Ramon De La Rosa and his brother were outside the Rockaway Boulevard store looking for work at about 12:30 p.m. on December 21 […]
Dutch Kills Street To Be Renamed For Local Hero
A Dutch Kills man who lost his life in September 2008 while protecting a neighbor from a homeless drug addict will be memorialized this spring, when the city officially renames a local street in his honor. Nicholas Nowillo, 67, walked out the front door of his home on Crescent Street at about 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2008 to escort […]