BP Katz Releases Queens Directory Of Immigrant Services
Borough President Melinda Katz announced last Friday the release of the latest edition of the Queens Directory of Immigrant Services, which was prepared by the Borough President’s Immigration Task Force and her Office of Immigrant and Intercultural Affairs. The 2018-2019 edition of the Directory of Immigrant Services contains listings for nearly 100 non-profit organizations and agencies that provide assistance to […]
I On Politics
ARMY ENGINEERS EXTEND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON STORM SURGE STUDY: Council Member Costa Constantinides, chair of the Committee on Environmental Protection, released the following statement on the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to extend the public comment period for the New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries study: “I was pleased to hear today (September 18) that the public […]
Malliotakis Endorses Bressler For NYS Assembly AD 26
David Bressler is a candidate for New York State Assembly in District 26, which covers the towns of Bayside, Bay Terrace, Whitestone, Douglaston, Little Neck, Auburndale and North Flushing in Northeast Queens. He is campaigning to win the election for Assembly member, because, he states, of his concerns with the state of affairs within our political landscape in northeast Queens […]
Astoria Park Alliance Hosts Shore Fest 2018
On Saturday, September 22 The Astoria Park Alliance hosted Shore Fest 2018. The free event, held on the Astoria Park Great Lawn, featured arts and crafts, face-painting, a photo scavenger hunt, bird watching tours, massage tables, cardio dance demos, potato sack races and a donut eating contest hosted by Sugar & Water NYC. Live music by the East River Blues […]
Yonkers Officer Shot, Stabbed In Murder-Suicide
An enraged ex-boyfriend grabbed a gun, killed his ex-girlfriend and shot her new beau before turning the weapon on himself inside the woman’s East Elmhurst apartment early Friday morning. Regan Smith, 31, was asleep with her new boyfriend, off-duty Yonkers Police Officer Hewitt DePass, in the bedroom of her second-floor apartment at 19-54 77th Street in East Elmhurst just before […]
Traffic Light Nightmare
On Wednesday afternoon, September 12, representatives from the Queens office of the Department of Transportation (DOT) had a small media meeting in front of PS 11 on Skillman Avenue in Woodside, about an incident that occurred there on Sept. 7. The incident was a traffic jam that got many thinking about the wisdom of having installed a traffic light at […]
Mass (Transit) Destruction
The same major subway disruption that practically destroyed the thriving shopping strip along 30th Avenue on the N/W line is now taking place at Broadway and 31st Street. During the evening rush hour we saw no one walking around on Broadway, where there are normally throngs of people pouring out of the train after each one pulls into the station, […]
Letters to the Editor
From QEDC To The Editor: As New Yorkers, we know each year really starts in September. Those fortunate enough to spend time away from Gotham over the summer come back relaxed and refreshed. That is, until they get stuck in their first fall traffic jam—replete with school buses stopping for students, cabs cutting you off, and bikers whizzing by faster […]