Cutting The Red Tape: Legislation Paves Way For Rebuilding After Sandy
Armed with signs emblazoned with such phrases as, “We are done keeping calm,” and “Gov. Cuomo: Let the rebuilding of homes and hearts begin,” the…
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Kevin “Skip” Surdi Passes
“What was right yesterday is right today and will be right tomorrow; Kevin had an unwavering moral compass. He was a great friend to my…
Mets, MLB Unveil Renovations At St. Albans VA
Flanked by former military men and women who have served from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, Major League Baseball representatives, officials from the New York…
A Favorite in Ozone Park
It’s just about two years since Ozone Park first became the home of CJ’s Bar and Lounge. The enterprise first launched in July of 2011…
Ozone Park Man Sentenced In Cat Death
An Ozone Park man was sentenced to a year in jail for bludgeoning a stray cat to death with a tire iron last year, Queens…
Lending A Hand To Children In Need
Assemblyman Mike Miller and the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association are sponsoring a toy drive to help children from families in need celebrate Eid al-Fitr. Eid…
Jamaica Man Sentenced To 18 Years For Gang Assault
The man convicted for the beating death of another man at a Forest Hill nightclub in 2010 was sentenced this week to a determinate sentence…
A Return To Jobs: Cb 5 Backs Industrial Business Zone For Ridgewood
Made in the USA. It is those words that prompted Community Board 5 members to throw their overwhelming support behind a plan to revive the…
Drained By Commutes, Residents Rally For Reactivating Rockaway Rail
Fed up with two-hour commutes from Rockaway to Manhattan and buses that are consistently overcrowded and late – or entirely missing in action – a…
Beloved Merchant Mike Matarazzo Passes
Richmond Hill lost one of its favorites this week with the passing of Michael Thomas Matarazzo. Hundreds of mourners filed into Romanelli’s Funeral home on…
As Spitzer And Weiner Land Limelight, Other Candidates Jump To Be Heard
In the soap opera that is New York City politics, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose tenure in the state’s highest seat crashed and burned…
Jamaica Bay Geese Killings Enrage Animal Rights Advocates, Defended By Feds
The United States Department of Agriculture rounded up and killed more than 260 geese from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge last week, which federal officials…
Police Search for Wife Slasher – Leaves victim for dead
A 26-year-old domestic violence victim is urging her husband to turn himself in after she said he allegedly attacked her so badly in Woodhaven that…
Motorcyclist in Coma – Bike strikes car on liberty
Woodhaven resident Jonathan Hill was in a medically induced coma after being hit by a car while riding his motorcycle around Liberty Avenue and 88th…
Queens Man Convicted of Murder – Bludgeoned Former Girlfriend
A Queens man, who bludgeoned his former girlfriend to death in front of two of her children, has been convicted of her murder. Elmer Diaz,…