Activists: Losing Historic Elmhurst Library is Symptomatic
Elmhurst Library is coming down. This week marks the start of its demolition to make way for a state-of-the art replacement, but before any work…
Elmhurst Library is coming down. This week marks the start of its demolition to make way for a state-of-the art replacement, but before any work…
While he has only been running things for a short time, Mark Frey, executive director of the Howard Beach Senior Center, notes that the problem…
Jacob Berelowitz isn’t the usual picture of a lifetime achievement award. He’s 27 years old. On Jan. 16 the Ozone Park native will receive the…
A Queens Village man who allegedly confessed to police that he was responsible for five New Year’s Day firebombings in Queens and Long Island is…
President Barack Obama appointed Jacob Lew, a Forest Hill High School alumnus and former Queens resident, to be his new chief of staff on Jan….
Two former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers based at John F. Kennedy Airport have been sentenced after pleading guilty to third-degree grand larceny and other…
Let’s Be Clear. When Governor Andrew Cuomo dropped the “convention center bomb” in his State of the State address last week, he certainly drew a…
For the second year in a row, The River Fund and Payless Shoesource are teaming up to provide underprivileged children with one of the simplest…
A Queens man has been arraigned on a 3,000-count indictment charging him with the possession and promotion of child pornography. Elvis Infante, 35, of 58-35…
While a proposal to rezone parts of Richmond Hill and Woodhaven is still in the planning stages, it has been met alternately with praise and…
If preliminary projections are correct, three Queens train stations are closer to needed additions and reparations, beginning this year. According to Joseph Raskin, assistant director…
Despite a letter from Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent out Tuesday urging lawmakers to back his plan, uncertainty and some optimism is still swirling around a…
An eyesore home that Middle Village neighbors have been staring at for years has caught the attention of the Department of Buildings after a push…
A Corona man driving while drunk with a suspended license struck and killed an unidentified livery cab driver pulled over in the safety lane in…
It all started with a simple idea—find a place for neighborhood kids to ride their horses. That’s what got Jane DaCosta and several local parents…