Students at Townsend Harris H.S. were victorious at this year’s New York City Metropolitan Regional Science Olympiad. This is the school’s third city championship (2007, 2009, 2013) in the nine years the school has competed. This year the winning team had to battle 47 other teams in 24 different science categories, with each team’s top 18 events counting. The students […]
Saluting Our Presidents
When some of us were in elementary school, lo these many years ago, the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the first and 16th president, respectively, were celebrated as two separate days of significance. Washington’s birthday was a federal holiday and until the late 1980s, corporate businesses and schools in many parts of the country, were closed. Like the […]
Letters to the Editor
Muni-Meters Malfunction A copy of this letter was received at the Queens Gazette. February 4, 2013Ms. Janette Sadik-KhanCommissionerNew York City Department ofTransportation55 Water Street, 9th FloorNew York, NY 10041 Dear Commissioner Sadik-Khan: I am writing to call your attention to the fact that my office has received constituent complaints about municipal parking meters that will accept only credit card payment. […]
Vallone Remembers Koch With A Smile
I served with Mayor Ed Koch for 12 years, the last four from 1986 through 1989, while I was the newly elected head of the City Council, soon to be empowered as a truly independent legislative branch of government with the coming elimination of the unconstitutional Board of Estimate. He and I became very close friends because the city was […]
Foreclosures Discussed At Boro Cabinet Meeting
Home prices across the United States rose by more than five percent in November. It was the biggest increase since August 2006 when the housing bubble began to burst. In the New York City area, home prices defied the upward trend falling 1.2 percent from the previous November (2011). At the height of the home foreclosure crisis in New York […]
Dromm Addresses Second Gay Slaying
Two openly gay men were murdered within a week of each other in the district that encompasses Jackson Heights and Elmhurst. The first murder occurred at 32-23 91st Street on February 3 and the second murder occurred exactly one week later at the Crown Motor Inn. In both cases, the men were strangled. Also, in both crimes there was no […]
Liu, Pension Funds Press Exxon To Release Fracking Data
City Comptroller John Liu and the New York City Pension Funds have called upon the Exxon Mobil Corporation to release quantitative data on its efforts to safeguard the public and the environment from its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations. As of February 4, the New York City Pension Funds held over 11 million shares of Exxon stock valued at more than […]
Edward Jones Hosts Seminar On Women’s Money Matters
Edward Jones financial advisor Bill Manolopoulos will be hosting a “Woman’s Guide to Money Matters” seminar in which participants will learn more about: •What one can do now to prepare for retirement. •One’s options to pay for a child’s or grandchild’s education. •Developing a strategy to help achieve one’s financial goals. The seminar will be held at the Edward Jones […]
Our Diverse Presidents
This February 18, we celebrate the accomplishments of our 43 presidents and George Washington’s birthday. As we look back on them, from Barack Obama to George Washington and everyone in between, we notice the diversity of our presidents. Since George Washington was president, we have had two presidents in the 18th century, 23 in the 19th century, 17 in the […]