Participatory Budgeting, Toy Drive on Agenda for WRBA Town Hall
If you plan on attending the next Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association town hall, you’d better come prepared. The first participatory budgeting brainstorming session and the…
If you plan on attending the next Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association town hall, you’d better come prepared. The first participatory budgeting brainstorming session and the…
The Rockaway Ferry, based out of Beach 108th Street and Beach Channel Drive, made its last official run on Friday, Oct. 31st, despite the efforts…
A Corona man was arrested last Thursday morning by federal agents on charges that he sexually abused three girls, whose ages ranged from 12 to…
Call her the Pioneer President. Flushing’s Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology is set this Friday to install Dr. Sharon DeVivo as its seventh president—the…
In an effort to combat growing rodent infestations in the community, particularly around Sandy-damaged properties, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D – Howard Beach) has called…
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York last week heaped praise on the Queens District Attorney’s Office for its work which helped…
The deadline to apply for Community Board 9’s district manager position is Nov. 7; and as one board member indicated to The Forum, all applications…
While comprehensive immigration reform remains a hot-button political issue, the city last week unveiled a new resource to help recently arrived immigrant children and their…
Space issues such as chronic overcrowding, the use of mobile classrooms and problems with co-located schools, whereby charter and public schools occupy the same building,…
In a move that seems to further establish an educational policy philosophy that is in sharp contrast to that of the 108th mayor of the…
Cuomo cruised, but the state Senate Democrats were bruised on Tuesday night as control of the Legislature’s upper body shifted to the GOP. Incumbent Democratic…
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz last Thursday announced their latest appointees to the Queens Borough Public Library Board of Trustees….
Residents of Tudor Village and surrounding communities on Saturday were treated to a Fall Festival at Addabbo Playground, organized by the Parks Department and City…
Civic and environmental groups teamed up with volunteers from city agencies last week to clean Superstorm Sandy debris from Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel. The…
A couple of years ago, Assemblyman Mike Miller (D-Woodhaven) made a promise to Margaret Finnerty, president of the Richmond Hill South Civic Association. The group…