Assembly Approves Goldfeder-Sponsored ‘Zombie’ Property Act
PHOTO: The Assembly this week passed the New York State Abandoned Property Relief Act of 2016 – sponsored by Assemblyman Goldfeder (l.) and designed to combat…
PHOTO: The Assembly this week passed the New York State Abandoned Property Relief Act of 2016 – sponsored by Assemblyman Goldfeder (l.) and designed to combat…
Graphic Courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration By Michael V. Cusenza Prior to 2012, June 1, for most city residents, was just another…
PHOTO: The new Frontline report “The Business of Disaster” focused on the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. Courtesy of PBS By Michael V. Cusenza If government malfeasance, rampant…
PHOTO: Mayor de Blasio launched Sandy Workforce1 as part of the administration’s Superstorm Sandy recovery overhaul in 2014. Courtesy of Build it Back By Michael V. Cusenza The City’s Superstorm Sandy…
PHOTO: A Brooklyn city councilman has introduced a bill that would help property owners recover and rebuild without having to worry about being fined by…
PHOTO: The owner of Alt Design & Construction Consulting, Inc. has been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from people whose Breezy Point homes…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s annual remarks have some of Queens’ influential voices cautiously optimistic for the days ahead. State Sen. Joseph Addabbo (D-Howard Beach) referred to…
Oct. 27, 2013 was the perfect example of what is not a hurricane. Instead of wind-whipped clouds scuttling across the bay, the bright blue skies…
Standing shoulder to shoulder, cupping candle flames flickering in one of the colder nights this year, a couple hundred residents began to sing, their voices…
“Like a phantom, it just came in, wild, and left,” Juliana Fazio says of the water that re-arranged Fazio Dance Center during Superstorm Sandy. She,…
“I want to thank everyone in uniform that helped us,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) says to a crowd of about 100 people…
So what’s a neighborhood without a diner? Hungry— well that’s the obvious, but for Howard Beachers the loss of the Cross ay Diner was just…
Among many ceremonies and dedications throughout the city in remembrance of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, was a special morning event at Howard…
A Letter From The Publisher My Dear Neighbors, I’ve known for almost a year that I was going to write this to all of…
…a continuation As this issue comes to an end, I would just like to say what a privilege it has been for us to put…