Meat lovers all over Astoria know K & T Meats on Broadway is the place for quality beef, veal, pork and poultry. On May 16, the well-known butcher shop co-sponsored a sidewalk demonstration of Chairman’s Reserve skirt steak and rib eyes. Bobby Verbeyse representing Fancy Foods, which operates out of the Hunt’s Point area of the Bronx, was on hand […]

The annual and very popular Steinway Street Sale Days were held on the weekend of May 15-17 in Astoria. Sponsored by the Queens Gazette, the event featured sales from popular stores along the business drag, as well as an appearance by Bobo the Hobo who delighted young and old alike with tricks. The following young artists from various schools also […]

Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of former Union soldiers and sailors – the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May […]

The final resting place for 1,102 (75 were recovered) crewmen of the U.S.S. Arizona who lost their lives on December 7, 1941. They are still entombed within the Arizona herself. The sunken battleship is commemorated by a 184 foot-long memorial structure that spans its mid-portion. No part of the edifice touches the ship. There are three sections in the memorial: […]

State Senator Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst), joined by Assemblyman Luis Sepúlveda (D-Bronx), Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr., and Wildlife Conservation Society Executive Vice President John Calvelli unveiled at the Bronx Zoo on May 14 a bill that would provide each New York City borough with a portion of the city hotel occupancy tax it collects to promote local tourism. […]