For Photographer, Seeing Beauty in Forest Hills’ Everyday
Joe Abate is a freelance photographer from Long Island currently working for a health organization on Austin Street in Forest Hills. When not working, he…
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Queens Library Controversy Prompts Pols to Introduce Reform Bill
Following the recent high-profile controversy surrounding spending and oversight at Queens Borough Public Library, a group of elected officials gathered on the steps of Borough…
From a Sea of Binders, Imagining the Broad Channel of Long Ago
Walking into the Broad Channel library, it could, at first, be easy to miss – a cart stacked with mostly white binders perched to the…
Queens Museum Director Tapped by Mayor to be City’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
After leading the Queens Museum as its executive director since 2002, Tom Finkelpearl is bidding Flushing Meadows Corona Park adieu to fill his new role…
Queens Urges Congress Not to Increase Truck Sizes
Should Congress approve a proposal to increase the size and weight limits for semi-trailer trucks, Queens residents already worn down by thousands of trucks passing…
People for the Pavilion team up with the Mets to celebrate World’s Fair anniversaries
Queens preservationists are partnering with the Mets to save the New York State Pavilion, an iconic structure built for the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows…
Frozen Goat Meat Leads to Cocaine Bust at JFK: Feds
Federal officers busted a man from Trinidad who was allegedly carrying more than seven pounds of cocaine in frozen goat meat tucked into his luggage…
Help on Way for Seniors Seeking Rent Relief: Pols
The number of rent-regulated seniors receiving tax relief throughout the state is expected to increase dramatically, elected officials announced this week in Forest Hills. State…
Success for Forest Hills School’s First Speech Squad
It was another celebration of firsts for the new Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Forest Hills. The school’s speech team competed its way to the…
Far Rockaway officer dies, Howard Beach mother Fighting for Life After Fire
A Far Rockaway officer died, and a Howard Beach officer is fighting to survive, after responding to a fire allegedly set by a teenager in…
Along Jamaica Bay, Lessons in Cultural Understanding and Environment
Bundled up in coats protecting them from the still-cold spring, the volunteers – young and old, from Queens and throughout the city – spread out…
Cheering on the Rockaway Ferry Extension
Civic leaders and elected officials gathered in Rockaway last week to voice their appreciation to Mayor Bill de Blasio for extending the ferry – but…
Sex Offenders Removed from South Ozone Park Homeless Shelter
After years of battling the city to get rid of high-risk sex offenders living in a homeless shelter a stone’s throw from an elementary and…
Four Dead After Car Plunges into Astoria Creek: City says it will review roads leading to water after tragedy
After four young people were killed when their car plunged into Steinway Creek in Astoria Friday, police are investigating speed and rain as potential causes…
With ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Decaying’ Trailers Looming, Pleas to Keep Richmond Hill HS Students in Annex
For years, Richmond Hill High School struggled – with low graduation rates, with violence, with trying to land resources from a mayoral administration that teachers…