Dear Savvy Senior What can you tell me about ethical wills? My wife and I had to make some minor adjustments to our legal will last month, and our attorney suggested we create an ethical will as a way to explain our intentions and express our thoughts and feelings. We are interested in doing this but could use some help. […]
Summer Youth Employment And Education Programs Launched
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott and Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) Commissioner Jeanne B. Mullgrav today kicked off the first day of the city’s summer youth employment and learning programs. The Summer Youth Experience initiative provides young people with learning and employment opportunities during the summer months and also plays a key role in […]
Summer Delights Abound In Queens
Now that the Fourth of July holiday has officially marked the start of summer in Queens, we once again pause to reflect on all the wonders available in the borough we call home. The list is a long one, and growing all the time. A glance at the calendar listings in this newspaper will quickly demonstrate that the borough is […]
Letters to the Editor
Obstructive Weeds To The Editor: The ‘mall’ on Queens Boulevard between 58th Street and 61st Street is once again overrun with nine-foot-high weeds. This mall used to be cement and was planted by the city Department of Parks and Recreation (DOP) when the fences were installed, by the city Department of Design and Construction/DOP. Since then, the DOP does not […]
A Dad Strikes Out
I took my twin ten-year-old sons to a couple of Angels games this week, and I was shocked—shocked!—to discover just how little they knew about baseball. I don’t mean to criticize my sons. They know an awful lot about things that I’ll never know. Juggling. Magic. Origami. And technology, of course. But the one thing I knew about when I […]
Rally To Support New York Family Leave Act
Assemblymember Aravella Simotas and state Senator Jose Peralta hosted a rally in support of the New York Family Leave Act, legislation they sponsored in their respective houses to extend family leave from 12 weeks to 24 weeks. Simotas discussed how the idea for the legislation came about and how the specifics of the bill will impact families all over New […]
Tourists Flock To Redbird Nest At Borough Hall
With the growing number of tourists entering New York City through LaGuardia and JFK Airports, boosting tourism in the borough is the goal of the Queens Tourism Initiative. “Tourism brings in over $3 billion a year,” Queens Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Seth Bornstein said during a recent update on the Initiative at the June meeting of the Queens Borough […]
Lincoln Center Brings Performances To Queens Libraries
Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer; Hillary McAndrew Plate, Senior Manager, Meet the Artists & Community Programming of Lincoln Center and Queens Library President and CEO Thomas W. Galante welcomed Lincoln Center Local to Queens Library at Broadway today. Jessica Wilt, Director of Education of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and Tara Lynch, a costumed flamenco teaching artist/performer answered questions on the history […]