If you visit the small cemetery behind Zion Episcopal Church in Douglaston, you will see amongst the ancient tombstones an enormous boulder that sits, cut in half, beneath a huge pine tree. Across it is the inscription, “Here lie the last of the Matinecock.” This mass grave, which contains the remains of those unearthed from a private Indian cemetery along […]

On June 9 Mayor Bill de Blasio stood on the stage at FDNY headquarters in Downtown Brooklyn to administer the oath of office to Daniel A. Nigro, the FDNY’s 33rd fire commissioner. Nigro, a Whitestone resident, is only the second commissioner to have held every rank in the fire department. The new commissioner began his career with the FDNY as […]

The Solstice Short Films Screening is coming to Anthology Film Archive, on Saturday, June 21, with three films featuring Astoria resident, Kat Scicluna. The films are The Naked Truth About Fairies (starring Scicluna, who co-produced it with costar, actor and writer, Dean Temple), The Convict and Plans. Scicluna is the producer and casting director of one of the films. There […]

When he was seven years old, Grigorios Athanasios Kritikos made the decision to go into acting. “It all began when I was growing up in Athens and my sister told me that I was very funny,” he said. Kritikos came to Astoria in 1971 when he was eight. His father, a famous soccer player for the notable Panagialo team in […]