A report from the city Department of Transportation at the May meeting of the Community Board 1 district cabinet included a notice intended as good news that instead drew howls of protest. Felix Okolo began his Department of Transportation report with a word about the NYC Plaza Program. The literature he handed out explained that the program “will reclaim streets […]
Dutch Kills Civic Hears Plans For Dormitory, High-Rise
The Dutch Kills Civic Association has been hearing about a few construction plans lately at its monthly meetings. In April, developer Henry Dolman of Quarried Realty Partners told the meeting what he’d like to do to remove a two-story, block-long row of commercial property on Queens Plaza North and replace it with a multi-story building of high-rise apartments and street-level […]
Flushing Rape-Beating Victim Left Brain-Dead
Elected officials from Queens expressed outrage at the brutal rape and beating of a 23-year-old Asian woman Sunday night and called for swift prosecution of the crime and greater police presence in the Downtown Flushing area. According to reports, although heavily intoxicated, 28-year-old Carloz Salazar Cruz followed the woman, who was walking on 41st Road near Main Street in Downtown […]
The 2010 Hermes Expo
“We must encourage all to participate, so our society will live on. Not just the same persons should be heard. The quiet, unknown, hardworking educator must be remembered. They are the basis of our Greek-American society,” President of the Greek Teachers Association Prometheus Vassiliki Filiotis said. “We would like to thank Paul Kotrotsios for inviting us to attend and be […]
Local Youth Throws Out 1st Pitch At Mets Game
Nine-year-old Jordan Gray, a Mets fan with autism from Queens Village, threw out the first pitch at the New York Mets game against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field, on May 10. EmblemHealth, the New York-based health insurance provider, sponsored the event. “Jordan loves to have fun like any other kid,” Jordan’s father, Bill Gray said. “We’ve been practicing since […]
Family: Subway Jumper ‘Improving Slowly’
Beatriz Briceno, 19, is “improving slowly” from traumatic injuries she suffered when struck on May 14 by a subway train in Long Island City, family members said. Briceno suffered severe head trauma and remains in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she is breathing with the help of a respirator. Relatives said Briceno, who moved to New York City […]
Mets’ And Islanders’ Owners Eye Flushing As Possible Home
The New York Mets Chief Executive Officer Jeff Wilpon and Islanders owner Charles Wang have discussed the possibility about building an arena for the hockey team near Citi Field in Flushing possibly in the footprints of Shea Stadium. According to Wilpon, he has not ruled out the possibility of buying the team. Wang has lost money on the Islanders for […]
Late Phil-Hellene Is Honored With Street Naming
The renaming of Northern Boulevard and 215th Street as “Sol Soskin Way” honored Sol Soskin, a late community activist who aided the Greek-American community. More than fifty people attended the ceremony in front of the 111th Police Pct. on May 4. During the 1990’s, he was instrumental in honoring prominent persons such as Rev. George Passias, Rev. Anastasios Diakovasilis and […]
New Baseball Book Reveals Players Were Denied Pensions
Douglas J. Gladstone’s first book release A Bitter Cup Of Coffee: How MLB & The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees A Curve tells the true story of a group of former big-league ballplayers denied pensions as a result of the failure of both the league and the union to retroactively amend the vesting requirement change that granted instant pension eligibility […]
Passenger Sneaks Weapons Aboard Cairo-Bound Jet
An EgyptAir passenger was detained last week in Cairo after arriving with a mini-arsenal of weapons and ammunition on a flight that took off from JFK Airport. Mohamed Ibrahim Khaif was carrying two 9.mm pistols, 250 rounds of ammunition, two swords and 11 daggers in his checked bags, which he managed to sneak past security monitors at the Queens airport, […]