The West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Corps gathered with hundreds of guests at Russo’s on the Bay to celebrate their 84th Annual Installation, Dinner and Dance.
Slow snow removal led to a grandmothers death according to a lawsuit filed which places the blame on the city for the death of an elderly Forest Park grandmother Gail Radvin, 73. The suit named the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the city’s Fire Department (FDNY) as defendants ithrough their failure to maintain roadways. (Photo 7)
A Rego Park teacher who was investigated in 2000 for inappropriately touching students was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two boys in his classroom last school year. Wilbert Cortez, 49, is a computer teacher at P.S. 174.
A Middle Village boy in need of a bone marrow transplant, saw thousands of local residents, and people from elsewhere in New York, come out to get their cheeks swabbed in hopes of becoming a donor.
About 1,900 people went into the registry at the bone marrow drive at Our Lady of Hope Catholic School, an event aimed at helping Colin Flood, the 6-year-old who has been battling acute lymphocytic leukemia.
The puzzle pieces on the wall of what will be the new nearly $5 million, 10,000-square-foot autistic services facility at 164-14 Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach are meant to be symbolic, said Andrew Baumann, CEO of nonprofit New York Families for Autistic Children (NYFAC).
The Ozone Park-based nonprofit, which provides services for more than 300 families in Queens and Brooklyn, hopes to help those families find those missing pieces in the form of new programs that their facility will provide.
Saving Jamaica Bay —an economic staple for the local community—is on the slate with efforts for the restoration one step closer to completion after a recent $7.2 million grant to make long-awaited restorations to the bay’s Yellow Bar Hassock Island.
Queens was threatened with a loss of teachers by a proposed turnaround plan. The turnaround would mean that a number of Queens-based high schools would have their teaching staff cut in half in time for the school year. The turnaround plan, if implemented, would see grant money come to 33 schools. After beloved Maspeth resident George Gibbons was killed by a drunken driver, his family decided to re-open the bar he had opened a month before the 37-year-old’s life was tragically cut short.
After a month-long manhunt and pushed back hearings, the Gibbons family was still waiting to hear what would happen to the man who allegedly hit George in a wrong-way car wreck.
The family decided, however, that they couldn’t let George’s bar sit empty while they waited. And, the Gibbons’ returned and celebrated the reopening of the bar, this time with George’s brother Eamen at the helm.
Carl Berner, a longtime civic activist who has lived in Middle Village since 1938, celebrated his 110th birthday at a small party at his home on hosted by the Juniper Park Civic Association(JPCA)
The husband who allegedly stabbed his wife in the neck in front of her three children in Richmond Hill this month could get life in prison if he is convicted of second-degree murder.
Oscar Novakovsky Police, 37-years-old allegedly told police, “ . . . The kids were screaming. The kids were trying to pull me off and were crying.” According to the charges against him, Novakovsky entered the home of Diane Sharma—his estranged wife— at 101-41 117th Street some time after midnight on Jan. 15. and allegedly stabbed her in front of their three children— three, five and nine—killing her and leaving a knife protruding from her neck.
