Horror House is a Hellish Hit in Howard Beach
He’ll turn 57 on Saturday, but Nick Colavito is a little kid around this time every year. In a neighborhood filled with garish mansions and…
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Gateway Park Projects Elicit Community Concerns
An update on the Spring Creek Hazard Mitigation project might have been on the marquee Tuesday night at the Howard Beach Lindenwood Civic meeting, but…
New Book Spotlights MTA ‘Art Museum’
The next time you find yourself at the intersection of Woodhaven Boulevard and Jamaica Avenue, take a quick look around. You might catch a driver…
Howard Beach Homeowner Offers Reward for Stolen Statue
A distraught New Howard Beach homeowner this week reached out to The Forum for some assistance in tracking down a decorative statue that was snatched…
Build It Back Responds to Howard Beach Senior’s Sandy Dillemma
After this newspaper last week spotlighted the seemingly unending bureaucratic saga of one Superstorm Sandy victim living in Howard Beach, it appears as though…
Rego Park Republican Set to Take on Addabbo
The reputations of the city and state legislatures have been in tatters for so long now—so many elected officials have been charged and convicted of…
School Says Afterschool Program Slots Still Available
One of the pillars of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s first year in office has been afterschool programming for middle-school students. And according to the head…
Pols, Communities Call on State to Improve Evacuation Routes and Signs
Emergency evacuation infrastructure and route signage along the Nassau Expressway and connecting roadways in southern Queens and southwestern Nassau County are in desperate need of…
Build It Backwards?
It seems that even two years later, Superstorm Sandy is still taking an enormous toll on the residents of southern Queens and the Rockaway peninsula….
Crime Down, Arrests Up in Busy 106th Pct.
To date this year, crime is down overall in the 106th Precinct, but arrests are up as officers respond to a record number of calls,…
Squatters Kicked to the Curb as Cops Padlock House of Horrors
“And don’t come back!” Two well-known area vagrants were treated to that chorus by more than one neighbor last Thursday night as they ambled off…
Marred Mailboxes Are Community Eyesores
At least two blue US Postal Service mailboxes have become sources of disdain in the communities of Ozone Park and Howard Beach, and the agency…
DOT Pledges to Beautify Lindenwood Walkway
After months of pleading with officials, Howard Beach and Lindenwood community leaders can claim victory this week as the city Department of Transportation has promised…
Borough Rental Prices on the Rise
Despite rental prices in Queens decreasing in August, long-term projections say that prices will increase steadily, according to data from the Queens Rental Market Report,…
Brazen Crook Robs Cross Bay Capital One Bank
Cops on Wednesday were still searching for a bold thief the day after he robbed an area bank branch in broad daylight. The suspect walked…