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Before Hurricane Sandy hit, Lindenwood Alliance founder Joann Ariola was working with Councilman Eric Ulrich to hurriedly prepare packages filled with batteries, water, and flashlights…
Ellen Buonpastore remembers it like it was yesterday – how it was her mother’s birthday, how she didn’t sleep that first night of Hurricane Sandy…
Councilman Eric Ulrich’s constituency is comprised of areas hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, and he had to take immediate action when the storm hit –…
Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder’s tenacity, courage and resourcefulness were put to the test when Hurricane Sandy hit his district, made up of Ozone Park, Howard Beach,…
State Sen. Joseph Addabbo Jr.’s district encompasses an area in Queens destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and another area that went almost untouched by the storm,…
Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) and his district in central Queens were not affected directly by Hurricane Sandy but he became the closest and most immediate…
It’s just several small blocks, tucked away in the heart of Old Howard Beach, but the area known as Coleman Square is full of history…
In Howard Beach, it was 9:23 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2012. Broad Channel? 9:18 p.m. These are the times that the storm surge peaked in…
The A-train? Shut down. Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge? Couldn’t take it. Cross Bay Bridge? Again, no. Even if residents wanted to get somewhere immediately…
For hospitals throughout the city, Hurricane Sandy brought daunting challenges – there were significantly overcrowded conditions at St. John’s Episcopal in the Rockaways, the peninsula’s…
As the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy rapidly approaches, many are taking yet another look at the storm’s chaos and the myriad of unresolved…
Walking past the rows of headstones and American flags at Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island last week, the members of the Queens Chapter 32…
Police are searching for a man who they said robbed two banks, one in Richmond Hill and another in South Richmond Hill, on Sunday. Officers…
Community leaders are urging the city Department of Buildings to demolish a Woodhaven building that partially collapsed last April, saying the building has made neighbors…
Less than a week after residents in Howard Beach on Bridgeton Street approached to The Forum to help them get the street’s direction changed, an…