According to the New York state Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (ABC), an applicant for a liquor license for an establishment must notify the relevant community board before the State Liquor Authority receives the application. Amnesia Sports Bar and Club Tahona, at 35-35 Steinway St., presented its application to Community Board 1 at the board’s September meeting, but the application was […]

A street camera near 29th Street and Broadway played a major part in apprehending an individual wanted for snatching cellphones while riding a bicycle. An image taken from where the man stole a cellphone from what turned out to be his last victim on September 20, depicted the cellphone thief as between 20 and 30 years old, 5 feet, 6 […]

Ten years after 9/11, problems in first responder communications which surfaced then remain unsolved and newer ones are coming onto the scene to be dealt with. Councilmembers Peter Vallone Jr. (D–Astoria) and Elizabeth Crowley (D–Glendale) held a third meeting of their committees and heard from the city’s highest officials in a search for solutions to problems that continue to elude […]

With a standing-room only crowd, award-winning Wall Street Journal and WCBS Newsradio 880 commentator Joe Connolly moderated a spirited discussion with the heads of four leading Queens entrepreneurial firms. Connolly, who is known for his trademark instructive vignettes from routine business stories, according to New York Magazine, spoke candidly to the large crowd of struggling business owners, and those eager […]

TT oday we take for granted that the world is round. In the fifteenth century, however, most people believed the world was flat. They thought that monsters or a trip over the edge of the earth waited for anybody who sailed outside the limits of known territory. People laughed at or jailed others who dared think that the world was […]

In 1905, Colorado became the first state to observe a Columbus Day. Over the next few decades other states followed. In 1937, then- President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed every October 12 as Columbus Day. Since 1971, it has been celebrated on the second Monday in October. Although it is generally accepted that Christopher Columbus was the first European to have discovered […]

The city Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer, Congressmember Joe Crowley and state Senator Michael Gianaris announced that short term metered parking is being added and parking regulations are being adjusted along Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside to make parking more accessible for motorists, especially the customers of local businesses lining the corridor. Recently, DOT reprogrammed […]