Amendment 8 Plan Outlines How City Will Use Grant Money for Sandy Recovery
With the arrival of the third allocation of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funds—a little more than $994 million—the Mayor’s Office of Recovery…
With the arrival of the third allocation of Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery funds—a little more than $994 million—the Mayor’s Office of Recovery…
Queens District Attorney Richard Brown last week announced that his office has successfully secured a significant grant from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services…
Passionate pro-police, anti-administration prose delivered on the steps outside Borough Hall briefly heated up a bitterly cold Tuesday afternoon as activists, union and civic leaders,…
Born Feb. 15, 2013, Howard Beach girl Valentina Allen has already experienced more challenges that most of us face in a lifetime full of hard…
In the wake of Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson’s recent bust of a major gun smuggling ring, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer will this week call…
The Forum has spent the last couple of weeks reviewing 2014 and reflecting on some of the big stories that have impacted our community over…
Rotary club members of Queens and Brooklyn, nonprofit leaders, government representatives and elected officials on Tuesday evening gathered for dinner at Prima Pasta Cafe in…
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed early Friday morning inside the doorway of an apartment in a Pomonok Houses building in Flushing, according to…
An accidental cooking fire on New Year’s Eve tore through a 9th-floor LeFrak City apartment, claiming the lives of three family members, according to the…
Law enforcement personnel, residents from communities across Queens, civic leaders and elected officials last Tuesday paid respect to two city police officers killed in the…
In October 2012, residents evacuating Superstorm Sandy were directed by emergency personnel to one area, while signs clearly indicated another. Confusion ensued. Those evacuation signs…
Mayor Bill de Blasio last week reappointed seven judges—four of whom reside in Queens—to the city’s civil, criminal and family courts. De Blasio reappointed three…
On the last day of 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted pardons to two men, one of whom calls Queens home, after each “contributed positively to…
Just before 7 pm on New Year’s eve, as people were beginning to enjoy their holiday celebrations, three men were robbing an elderly couple in…
Mario Cuomo, a boy from Briarwood who went on to become the 52nd governor of New York, died of natural causes due to heart failure…