Mobile Sports Betting Could Help Bridge $6B State Budget Shortfall: Addabbo
Photo Courtesy of FLICKR/Baishampayan Ghose At least one recent study has found that legalized sports betting has the potential to generate $2.6 billion annually for…
Wheel Steal
The 106th Precinct has issued a Community Alert regarding a recent uptick in rim and tire thefts in South Queens neighborhoods. While perpetrators seemingly prefer…
Dream Fulfilled?
We here at The Forum thought it fitting – always fitting – to print The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s brilliant “I Have a…
Borough Communities Want MTA to go back to Drawing Board for Bus Network Redesign Effort
By Forum Staff The Queens Bus Network Redesign Plan has seemingly been panned by World’s Borough residents. “We all hoped when this bus redesign plan…
De Blasio Details $95.3B City Preliminary Budget
Photo Courtesy of Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office “In planning for the next year, we are facing an unprecedented $6 billion State budget gap. Medicaid cuts…
We Cut Con Ed Rate Hike Ask by 75%: PSC
Photo Courtesy of Con Ed “The three-year investment plan approved today is essential to helping New York State achieve its clean energy goals, as well…
Cuomo Goes ‘Bold’ with $178B State Budget
Photo Courtesy of Darrin McGee/Office of Gov. Cuomo Cuomo also addressed the $6 billion budget gap during Tuesday’s outline of the State’s FY 2021 spending…
Alarming Uptick in Guns at JFK, LGA
Photo Courtesy of TSA A person flying out of JFK Airport last summer concealed this .45-caliber firearm in a block of tar. By Michael V….
Doc to Pay $1.1M in Fraud Case
Photo Courtesy of Google Bayani’s New York Otolaryngology & Aesthetic Surgery, P.C. office is located at 62-73 Woodhaven Blvd., in Rego Park. By Forum Staff…
Subway Flasher Gets Prison Time
Photo Courtesy of NYPD Ronald Dudley By Forum Staff A Bronx man has been sentenced to more than a year in prison after admitting that…
Richmond Hill Man Charged in ‘Brutal’ Murder, Sexual Assault of 92-Year-Old Woman
Photo Courtesy of Google Fuertes was attacked as she walked along 127th Avenue searching for redeemable bottles and cans. By Michael V. Cusenza A Richmond…
‘Community is Everything!’ Historic Neir’s Tavern Saved on Last Day
By Michael V. Cusenza Neir’s Tavern, the beloved 190-year-old Woodhaven watering hole, has been spared from the real estate gallows, owner Loy Gordon and Mayor…
South Ozone Park-ing Problem
The Forum ran a story two weeks ago noting that truck drivers were once again illegally parking their vehicles in precarious spots along South Conduit…
‘Current Challenges are Daunting— but it is Nothing New York can’t Handle’: Cuomo Delivers ‘Robust’ State of the State Address
By Michael V. Cusenza “Making Progress Happen.” That’s the title of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s exhaustive 10th State of the State address, delivered last Wednesday up…
Double School Security Funds: Pols
Photo Courtesy of Assemblywoman Pheffer Amato’s Office “I feel strongly that this funding is critical to take a stand against the recent spike in anti-Semitic…