The first Friends of the Corona Library was chartered on January 5, to support that vibrant and vital community library. The Friends of Queens Library strengthen the Queens Library as a whole through legislative advocacy, program planning, community awareness and fundraising for their neighborhood library. They play a key role in promoting library programs and services and serving as advocates […]
Will You Be Our Veterans’ Valentine?
Assemblymember Edward C. Braunstein and the Law Offices of Ann-Margaret Carrozza are sponsoring their community’s 19th annual Valentines for Vets gift drive.“We are collecting donations of cards, candy, toiletries, and new clothing items such as pajamas, robes, slippers, and socks for the hospitalized and disabled veterans at the St. Albans VA Community Living Center and the New York State Veterans’ […]
Eagle Scouts Honored
St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council 5911 honored two new Eagle Scouts. On January 3, at St. Anastasia Parish in Father Smith Hall in Douglaston, Boy Scout Troop 153 held their Eagle Scout Court of Honor for Michael Angelo Tuffey and Evan Nicholas Tsourtsoulas. Grand Knight Frederick Bedell Jr. presented them with certificates from New York State Knights of Columbus […]
Goldfeder Takes The Plunge
Assemblymember Phil Goldfeder joined hundreds for the New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge in Rockaway. Participants braved freezing temperatures for the annual tradition, which is held at noon on January 1 all along the beaches on the Rockaway Peninsula.
It’s In Queens! (January 8 to January 14)
If your New Year resolutions include weight loss, healthy living, recycling, learning about 3D technology, expanding business knowledge and contacts, admiring awe-inspiring photography, listening to great music, or just plain old laughing, Queens has something for you this week. Here’s the rundown.Jan. 8, The Jantar Mantars of Northern India, regular hours. Opening day for an exhibit that runs until May […]
FDNY: New Year’s Soup Sparked Fatal Fire
A fast-moving fire that claimed the lives of three Lefrak City residents on New Year’s Day was sparked by a pot of soup left unattended on the family’s kitchen stove, fire officials said.Officials said Napoleon Michel, 69, his wife, Louise Jean-Charles, 56, and their 32-year-old live-in niece, Nadia Donnays, left the traditional Haitian soup simmering on a stove just before […]
FDNY Reminder: Check Wiring On Space Heaters
Fire officials last week marked October as Fire Safety Month, pointing to electric space heaters with faulty wiring as the “Number One Cold Weather Killer,” and the leading cause of fires during cold weather months.Sparks from electric heaters with frayed or worn wires set off the majority of fires each year during cold weather months, FDNY officials said.“They are, without […]
Cops Hunt Armed Queensbridge Bandits
Police are searching for a team of armed bandits who robbed three people inside the Queensbridge Houses last summer.Cops said a gang of five men and one woman accosted the victims as they left an apartment at the Long Island City housing project at about 2:30 a.m. on June 28.Two of the men flashed guns as a third man pistol […]
How To Handle Wicked Winter Weather
It may seem like Old Man Winter is taking his time making an appearance this season, holding back the blustery chill that normally accompanies his arrival.Meteorologists and weather experts said winter is right at our doorstep, with temperatures expected to dip into the teens this week.No one anticipated the Christmas blizzard of 2010, or the piles of snow and frigid […]
Gruesome New Year’s Day In College Point Park
Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy by the city Medical Examiner’s Office to determine the exact cause of death of a man whose body was found in a College Point park on January 1.Police sources said a passerby walking in Mc Neill Park spotted the body at about 11 a.m. on New Year’s Day, sprawled on a pile […]