John and Doris Locascio, residents at Queens Boulevard Extended Care facility, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on April 24. Family, residents and staff shared in the festivities of many happy memories, dancing to their favorite music, eating their favorite cheesecake, a ceremony and much more. The decorations accented the event with blue and white, the colors representing the diamond anniversary […]
PEP Meeting Addresses Overcrowding In Districts 24, 30
The Department of Education will temporarily send about 150 students from P.S. 143 attending kindergarten in leased space at the private Transfiguration Annex to Q287, a new school opening in District 24 this September. The Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) approved the move at its April 17 meeting. The expiration in June of a two-year lease with Transfiguration, located at […]
Wambua Announces Second Phase For Hunter’s Point
City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Phase II of the Hunter’s Point South development area on the Queens waterfront. Phase II will encompass all of Parcel C, and will be a mixed-income development that may accommodate up to 1,000 new residential units, with approximately […]
Crowley Joins Open Forum At Lefrak Queens Library
On April 30, Congressmember Joseph Crowley (D-Queens, The Bronx) joined residents at the Queens Library Lefrak City branch’s open forum. Crowley addressed a number of critical issues, including the impact on the community of the devastating across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, the latest on comprehensive immigration reform, and the need for responsible gun violence prevention. “It was a great […]
Retire On Your Own Terms
Most Americans are aware that they need to save for retirement. It is a topic that is easy to brush aside to a later date because although the subject is important, it may not seem urgent. But the longer you put off some basic retirement planning, the harder it will be to catch up later. We’d like to share with […]
QBG To Honor Kupferbergs At 18th Annual Rose Gala
Queens Botanical Garden (QBG) has announced that four members of the Kupferberg family will be honored at its 18th Annual Rose Gala on Thursday, June 6, at 6:00 p.m. We are delighted to be honoring these four outstanding individuals for their generous and steadfast support of the Garden and the greater Queens community. The honorees are: Max Kupferberg – Along […]
