FEMA Admits Fraud
Local lawmakers are calling the Federal Emergency Management Agency “dishonest” after an executive there admitted to having seen evidence of fraud in reports used to deny Sandy…
Local lawmakers are calling the Federal Emergency Management Agency “dishonest” after an executive there admitted to having seen evidence of fraud in reports used to deny Sandy…
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, scores of cops from all over the city and members of the community last Thursday gathered in…
An area elected official last weekend announced that, in an effort to give vulnerable homeowners a choice, he will introduce new state legislation creating an…
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster…” With those revealing words 25 years ago, Ray Liotta opened a…
United States Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand this week called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ensure that all impacted Superstorm Sandy flood…
In recent weeks, there were a couple of news stories about an ex-Professor who’d been robbing banks in the name of art, claiming that, although…
For some time now, the boutique business revolution has been surging throughout the United States, as a result of upscale demands being made by savvy…
Mayor Bill de Blasio this week signed into law two bills that he said will improve the city’s coastal storm emergency preparedness. Introduction 519-A requires…
The Assembly last week passed a bill that would grant college financial aid to immigrants living in the country illegally. But the NY Dream…
State Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) this week told The Forum that the fight for the Woodhaven-Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corps building continues. Earlier…
A woman last Sunday was rushed to the hospital after her clothes caught fire inside an Ozone Park Hindu temple, according to the Fire Department…
A 23-year-old Queens man has been convicted after a jury trial of robbing a Rockaway boardwalk concession at gunpoint in September 2013, after having worked…
The City Council Committee on Veterans Affairs last week trumpeted the passage of three pieces of legislation that will reform the Veterans Advisory Board and…
Participatory Budget Delegates, City Council staff and civic leaders in Woodhaven and Rockaway Park last week pared down the items which will appear on the…
A former public school computer teacher last week pleaded guilty to charges involving the sexual abuse of four young boys in his classroom on multiple…