State Receives Fed Approval to Add Aqueduct Racetrack to List of Temporary Hospital Sites
Photo Courtesy of Mike Groll/Office of the Governor “Our top priority is finding more beds for patients and getting the ventilators we need to ensure…
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Prayers in Air
The latest ingenious latex creation from Nick “the Balloonatic” Rotondo is something that we all can use in these unsettling times. The Helium Honcho has…
Queens has Become National COVID-19 Hot Spot
Photo Courtesy of Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office “We’re approaching the toughest weeks of this crisis, and our City is rising to the challenge,” Hizzoner added. “We…
CARES Act to Bring Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Aid to NY
Photo Courtesy of Rep. Jeffries’s Office “We defeated the Great Depression. We defeated Nazi Germany. We defeated Jim Crow. We will defeat COVID-19 as well,” said Rep….
Borough Ready to ‘Fuel the Frontlines’
Photo Courtesy of QEDC The first “Fuel the Frontlines” food packages came from Cooking With Corey, which works out of QEDC’s Entrepreneur Space in Long…
THERE ARE NO WORDS…
Many heartwarming images were seen around the world as tugboats led the U.S Naval Hospital Comfort into New York Harbor on Monday. Indeed, New Yorkers…
CV-Yes!
The staff at CVS Pharmacy in Levittown, L.I., recently donated a large care package to the cops and support staff at the 106th Precinct. “They…
Mayor Touts Hospital Resource Surge
Photo Courtesy of Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office The City is in the process of distributing 250,000 masks donated by the United Nations to public hospitals….
Beware COVID-19 Scams
Photo Courtesy of T-Mobile Crooks are leveraging the pandemic to steal your money, your personal information, or both. By Michael V. Cusenza Perhaps unsurprisingly, the…
Federal Injunctions Bar Companies from Facilitating Robocalls
File Photo Numerous foreign-based call centers are alleged to have used the defendants’ VoIP carrier services to pass fraudulent government and business imposter robocalls to…
Need $50M for Food Programs: Coalition
Photo Courtesy of the Office of the Queens Borough President According to Food Bank for NYC, to date, 32 percent of emergency food programs, which includes…
Cop Indicted for Child Porn
Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Julio is a member of the NYPD Highway Division. He has been suspended without pay. By Forum Staff A City cop…
State Suspends Liquor License of Richmond Hill Bar that Violated Emergency Shutdown Order
Forum Photo by Patricia Adams The emergency suspension of New Oriental Guyana Restaurant’s license was ordered Friday at a special meeting of the Full Board…
Quiet Queens: The Bustling World’s Borough Shutters as Pandemic Fallout Continues
Forum Photo by Patricia Adams Patients patiently wait in line in their cars in the Aqueduct Racetrack parking lot to be tested for the coronavirus….
FreshDirect, BP Link for Food Drive
Photo Courtesy of Google Our Lady of Grace in Howard Beach is one of the 16 community-based organizations participating in the first week of the…