GARCIA’S MEXICAN CAFE
Spice up your life with a meal at Garcia’s Mexican Café, located on fashionable Austin Street in Forest Hills. Join the very happy Happy Hour running Mondays through Fridays from 3pm until 7pm, serving discounted margaritas, beer and sangria. In fact, the Daily News recently voted Garcia’s “Best Margarita in Queens” and I would have to agree. The “Perfect Margarita” […]
Different Types Of Tea Popular In Queens
Tea, a hot or cold drink prepared with water and steeped leaves from a plant commonly known as the tea tree, is popular across the country. The drink has many positive uses, from occasional indulgence to maintaining health through meditation and the intake of its rich antioxidants. Many now prefer tea than coffee as a lighter and healthier substitute. There […]
Amnesty International At Townsend Harris Hosts Silent Demo
On the morning of May 23 members of the student chapter of Amnesty International at Townsend Harris H.S. hosted a silent demonstration to raise awareness on the topic of maternal deaths. According to reports one woman dies in childbirth every 90 seconds of every day. The demonstration served as the introduction to a weeklong advocacy campaign to shed light on […]
Ready Or Not
BY DR. E. KIRSTEN PETERS As events in Japan this past March showed us, big ones really do happen. Richter 9 is about as large as they come, an event so enormous it takes away the breath of even a geologist like myself. It’s no comfort to think that quakes of that same general size are likely along the western […]
Beware Daytime Raccoons
Officials at the city Department of Health (DOH) are warning Queens residents to steer clear of raccoons that have been spotted running during daylight hours through neighborhoods from Long Island City to Fresh Meadows. DOH officials released a strong warning, advising residents to stay away from raccoons, squirrels and other animals that may be carrying a potentially deadly disease. Pet […]
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’: •Jun. 11, Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Strawberry Fair, international food, fun, community auction. •Tuesdays, 6 p.m. Join the Sunnyside […]
NYC Regains Financial Strength: Zuckerman
The first annual Queens Business Expo breakfast, presented by the Queens Chamber of Commerce and the New York Daily News, was the opening event of the QCC Business Expo, which in 2011 was in its third year at Citi Field in Flushing. Speaking at the breakfast was Mortimer B. Zuckerman, publisher of the Daily News and U.S. News & World […]
Gazette Calendar Of Events
Flag Day Jun. 11, 11 a.m., Kiwanis Sunnyside, 42nd Annual Flag Day Parade, Greenpoint Avenue /41st to 48th Streets; 718.786.4141. Community Meetings Dates & times are subject to change, call to confirm. Associations Jun. 8, 7 p.m., United Forties Civic; St. Teresa, Auditorium, 50-22 45th St., Woodside; 917.535.0516. Jun. 9, 7:30 p.m., Dutch Kills Civic; Growing Up Green Charter School, […]