Coming Together at Our Lady of Grace, Residents Remembered What It Was To Hope
As Rev. Anthony Rucando left for Our Lady of Grace Church’s first mass after Hurricane Sandy swept through Howard Beach, he doubted there would be…
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Providing Meals to Hot Showers, Joann Ariola and Lindenwood Alliance Did Not Rest in Sandy’s Aftermath
Before Hurricane Sandy hit, Lindenwood Alliance founder Joann Ariola was working with Councilman Eric Ulrich to hurriedly prepare packages filled with batteries, water, and flashlights…
From A Rec Room, Lindenwood Leader Brought Food, Clothes And Hope – Ellen Buonpastore created a relief center that became a haven for those who had lost everything
Ellen Buonpastore remembers it like it was yesterday – how it was her mother’s birthday, how she didn’t sleep that first night of Hurricane Sandy…
The Comeback of Coleman Square – The Little Town That Could…And Did
It’s just several small blocks, tucked away in the heart of Old Howard Beach, but the area known as Coleman Square is full of history…
City Grapples With How To Protect Vulnerable Coastline
In Howard Beach, it was 9:23 p.m. on Oct. 29, 2012. Broad Channel? 9:18 p.m. These are the times that the storm surge peaked in…
A Year Later, Sandy Exposes Flood Insurance Program in Desperate Need of Reform
As the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy rapidly approaches, many are taking yet another look at the storm’s chaos and the myriad of unresolved…
Cops Search for Queens Bank Robber
Police are searching for a man who they said robbed two banks, one in Richmond Hill and another in South Richmond Hill, on Sunday. Officers…
Woodhaven Civic Leaders Plead With City To Demolish Partially Collapsed Building
Community leaders are urging the city Department of Buildings to demolish a Woodhaven building that partially collapsed last April, saying the building has made neighbors…
Pedestrian Struck on Bridgeton Street – Residents seek change in street direction to curb danger
Less than a week after residents in Howard Beach on Bridgeton Street approached to The Forum to help them get the street’s direction changed, an…
Cops Release Video of Murdered Woman
The NYPD has released surveillance footage of Marisha Cheong on the day she disappeared last December, hoping it leads to a break in the murder…
Still A Queens Girl: Cyndi Lauper Returns Home To Kick Off Tour
“They said sing with your accent; I said, ‘what accent?’” Cyndi Lauper says in a thick Queens accent at the Colden Center at Queens College….
Public Invited to Forest Park Carousel Landmarking Dedication Ceremony
The Forest Park Carousel will be honored by the city Landmarks Preservation Commission and the city Parks Department on Monday, Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m.,…
Wonderful Woodhaven Street Festival Draws Thousands
Thousands of people from throughout Queens flocked to the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation’s 33rd annual fall street festival Sunday, when colorful children’s rides, civic groups…
From A Sea of Pink, Woodhaven Soccer Club Wages War on Breast Cancer
Woodhaven Soccer Club players decked themselves out in pink last weekend – from their hair to their shirts – and the young players not only…
Howard Beach Residents Begin to Craft Plan to Protect Themselves from the Next Hurricane Sandy
For Howard Beach residents Valerie Messana and JoAnn Ambrosio, this week’s meeting about preventing the kind of devastation Hurricane Sandy wrought was, to them, more…