From grief to action: After deaths, residents call for a city safe for pedestrians
The more than 150 people who gathered for a vigil on the Ridgewood border of Queens and Brooklyn Sunday night were parents, siblings, children, and…
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With spoken word, Richmond Hill Library to shine light on Women’s History Month
To honor women and their role in society, the Richmond Hill Library will hold a reading featuring poets from around New York City. The event,…
Port Authority moves to increase airport worker wages
City airport workers found a way this week to turn getting arrested into a positive outcome. Years of outcry, protests and even civil disobedience paid…
Queens first baseball convention draws hundreds of fans – and big sports names
Hundreds of loyal baseball fans gathered at McFadden’s Citi Field on Saturday afternoon for the first ever Queens Baseball Convention, a mid-winter celebration of Mets…
Mother and two young children stabbed to death at Jamaica home
Deisy Garcia loved her daughters. The 21-year-old mother had just celebrated the first birthday of her youngest daughter, Yoselin, and the baby and her 2-year-old,…
From the College Point massacre to working with Scotland Yard, former Woodhaven detective’s book chronicles life in the NYPD
Raymond Berke is the first to admit it: The man who became a highly decorated veteran of the NYPD wasn’t the best behaved kid in…
From security cameras to Wi-Fi, a sea of ideas for Woodhaven projects
Crowded around tables in the basement of a Woodhaven church, residents, armed with black markers and many an idea, began to write: police cameras on…
Mayor announces major expansion of paid sick leave
Following Mayor de Blasio’s announcement at the end of last week that he wants a major overhaul of the way paid sick leave is conducted…
At WRBA, Velazquez talks Congress’ new spending bill, struggling economy
Praising the approximate $1 trillion funding bill passed by Congress last week, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan) told Queens residents on Saturday that…
Miller bill takes aim at out-of-state license plates
Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) has a message for drivers wielding out-of-state license plates who are hogging parking spaces on the street: Your time is up….
Rockaway ferry service extended until at least May
Following months of rallies and pleas from civic leaders, residents and elected officials, Mayor de Blasio’s announcement Tuesday morning that the Rockaway ferry service would…
State budget builds on success, Cuomo says
Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out this year’s budget while bashing the government policies of yesterday. He also committed to a state-funded universal prekindergarten program, which…
With eye on Assembly seat, Fedkowskyj considers bid against Markey
Following five years of marathon city meetings that often dragged on into the early morning hours and intense negotiations with Mayor Bloomberg’s administration over school…
PS 11 parents, electeds urge city to reconsider plan to bus students across district
After the city decided to postpone a vote on a proposal to bus hundreds of kindergarten students from PS 11 in Woodside to a building…
After pedestrian’s death in Maspeth, residents cry out for change
Following the death of a 68-year-old woman on her way to play bingo in Maspeth last Saturday, area civic leaders are calling on the city…