A meal at O Lavrador is a treat for everyone, friends and family alike. This classic Portuguese restaurant is a rustic escape from the ordinary and the food is simply outstanding. Now that it’s finally Spring, choose O Lavrador for all your family celebrations in their spacious dining room and two banquet halls. Host your graduation, communion, confirmation, shower, or […]
Student Solar Competition Launched To Spark Career Interest
The Alley Pond Environmental Center and SunPower by EmPower Solar, a leading New York-based solar energy company, have opened registration for a student competition. The competition challenges students to use STEM and creative components to analyze the effect of our energy systems on wildlife and the environment. Students in grades K-12 throughout the city and Long Island will be participating […]
Local-Express
Evelyn GomezEvelyn Gomez is a cancer survivor who is motivating others to fight back against cancer by fundraising for research, with the help of her seven-year-old son, Aiden. She was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer back in 2010, while expecting Aiden. She was part of a clinical trial that opened her eyes to the value of cancer research. […]
LICP Taps Firm To Create Plan For Life Sciences Cluster In LIC
The Long Island City Partnership (LICP) has retained the services of East Egg Project Management to help develop a plan that will create a life sciences cluster in Long Island City. LICP seeks to attract emerging and established businesses across the life sciences sector, which encompasses biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, digital health, medical devices, and others, to complement and build on the […]
Pedestrian Safety In Bay Terrace, Bay Club Area
This week, Council Member Paul Vallone announced that the Department of Transportation (DOT) will officially begin implementing a series of pedestrian safety improvements in the Bay Terrace and Bay Club area that were announced in 2017. “This area, which is home to a large senior population, has been in serious need of pedestrian safety improvements and has been one of […]
The Pulpit
Times and dates are subject to change. Please call event sponsors to confirm. To list your event, send info to qgazette@aol.com, or 42-16 34th Ave, Astoria 11101, TWO weeks prior to the event for proper coverage. ARMENIAN CHURCH OF THE HOLYMARTYRS:•Wednesday, Apr. 25, 1 pm: Lecture:Remembering Armenia and the EasternRoman Byzantine Heritage by IvanAivazovsky. Women’s Guild in ChurchAuditorium, 209-15 Horace […]
LIC Marble Worker Crushed To Death
A worker at a Long Island City-based wholesale marble warehouse was crushed to death while he was moving two stone stabs inside the building. The 50-year-old Queens man was trying to move the marble slabs with a mechanical hoist at the Leadstone USA warehouse on 50th Avenue at about 5 pm on March 30 when he tripped and was trapped […]
New ‘Curve’ In LIC Development
Developers of a 70-story, 751-foot-tall super tower under construction near the site of the landmarked Clock Tower Building in Long Island City have added a new curve to the development. First renderings released for the development dubbed Queens Plaza Park reveal a stunning concave tower sheathed in a glass curtain wall set behind the 90-yearold, 11-story Clock Tower Building. The […]
Restoration Project Honored With Moses Award
The New York Landmarks Conservancy has announced the winners of the 2018 Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards. The Highland Park Boulder Bridge in Highland Park is among the projects that will be recognized at the May 8 Ceremony at St. Bartholomew’s Church in Manhattan. The Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards are the conservancy’s highest honors for excellence in preservation. The […]