Check out the following exhibitions and events at Plaxall Gallery! Art Exhibits: Yours, And Always, Only Yours, the LiC-A Member exhibition and summer postcard exhibition is being held through August 26. Tony Vaccaro: Orphan to Photographer, through August 19 Music & Dance: Guzheng Master Class, August 1, 6pm – 7:30pm, FREE & Open to the public. Cre Art Music Festival: […]

NYS Senator Jose Peralta, community organizations and volunteers distributed approximately 3,000 backpacks filled with school supplies to local children on a first-come, first-served basis during the Senator’s Ninth Annual Back to School Giveaway. The traditional backpack giveaway event was held at the 98th Place and 57th Avenue intersection in Corona. With the upcoming academic year just one month away, each […]

Welcome to August 1921! Over in Italy, famed opera singer Enrico Caruso passed away in his hometown of Naples on August 2. Meanwhile, street battles between Protestants and Catholics claimed 18 lives in Belfast, Ireland during the Irish struggle for independence. In the United States, the largest labor uprising in American history pitted West Virginia coal miners against local law […]

An evening of jazz for a good cause! Join Flushing House on Friday, September 14 at 7 pm for an evening of LIVE JAZZ, eating, drinking and dancing on the Flushing House rooftop overlooking the city. There will even be a photo booth! United Adult Ministries’ fundraising event will be a night you don’t want to miss. Tickets are $100 […]

Three months to the day after undergoing the successful cardiac procedure that prolonged his life, 95-year-old Holocaust survivor Jack Betteil, of Bayside returned to North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) and proclaimed that his doctor was “a miracle worker.” Even a severe case of aortic stenosis – a condition in which the aortic valve becomes calcified with age and breathing becomes […]