Astoria–L.I.C. Kiwanis Honors Three
At its ninth annual cocktail party, held at Riccardo’s By the Bridge on September 22, the Kiwanis Club of Astoria–L.I.C. honored Mount Sinai Queens Chief Executive Director Caryn A. Schwab, Quontic Bank Holdings Corp. Board Chairman and CEO Steven Schnall and Antonio Meloni of the New York Anti-Crime Agency and Immigration Advocacy Services Inc. director as, respectively, Woman of the […]
Ponticello Ristorante
Since 1982, Ponticello Ristorante has been welcoming residents of the five boroughs and beyond, including celebrities, politicos and heavyweights in the community. Families and friends celebrate special occasions or make any night special as they feast on Ponticello’s superior Italian cuisine, served in first class style. Owners Giuseppe ‘Pepi’ Hanovic and Luigi Kucica achieve excellence and have been awarded so […]
Fighting The Law And Saving Money
The laws of physical science teach us we can neither create nor destroy energy. But it’s also a simple fact that we can surely waste it. And that raises the possibility of saving money by refusing to let energy slip through our fingers. Typical families in the U.S. spend about $1,900 each year on home utility bills. That’s $160 per […]
HISTORY OF ROSH HASHANAH
Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew for “beginning of the year”) is the Jewish spiritual New Year. The Mishnah, the core work of the Jewish oral law, sets this day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and sabbatical and jubilee years. Rabbinic literature describes this day as a day of judgement. God is sometimes referred to as the “Ancient of […]
Koch To Sue Over Redistricting
At an Assembly hearing on the state legislature’s plan to draw new legislative lines for the 2010 elections and for 10 years beyond that, former Mayor Ed Koch got into an argument with the lawmaker officiating at the hearing and threatened to go into court to block the Assembly/state senate plan. Koch is on record as favoring an independent committee […]
