Ottomanelli Burgers & Belgian Fries, a Woodside burger joint, opened in January. The Wall Street Journal ran the following story this morning. WSJ The burger craze spreads deeper into Queens with the opening of a new joint in Woodside. F. Ottomanelli Burgers & Belgian Fries traces its origin to a butcher shop down the street. Read More »
A 43 year old corrections officer attacked his wife in their Woodside home on Monday evening in front of their 9 year old daughter, according to court documents. Mohammed A.Ali allegedly dragged his wife by the legs across the living room floor and then punched her several times in the face, causing redness and welling. Read More »
In early March, a group of ten young people from Unity Stage Company, a Sunnyside-based theater group, will take the stage in the 1985 “female version” of Neil Simon’s comedy “The Odd Couple.” In this variation, the title characters are named Florence and Olive, instead of Felix Unger and Oscar Madison as they are famously Read More »
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Three people were stabbed at 7:30 pm Sunday in Woodside, next to the Lawrence Virgilio Playground. The police said the victims, two males and 1 female, were transported to Elmhurst Hospital after the incident. The victims are expected to recover, but are being uncooperative in identifying the perpetrator(s). Jeremiah Dobruck, a Sunnyside resident and reporter Read More »
The city is building a 440-seat elementary school in Woodside, officials from the School Construction Authority and the Department of Education announced today. The school, which will be located on 39th Ave (between 57th and 58th street), is schedule to open in the fall of 2015. Its construction comes at a time when PS11 in Read More »
This March was supposed to be a cheerful time for the alumni of St.Raphael School. After all, March 3 marks its 50th anniversary, and the alumni association had plans for a fundraising event where past students would gather in support of the school. Instead, with the January announcement that the school will close, the focus Read More »
Times Ledger Drag queens from all around the country strive to win on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but it is only in Season 4 that fans have gotten to watch a queen from Queens. Sunnyside resident Paulo Arabejo, better known as Jiggly Caliente, is one of 13 contestants on Season 4 of the LGBT cable channel Read More »
Guard your wheels. There have been three incidents throughout the area where car owners have discovered their vehicles without rims and wheels. The latest incident (see photo) occurred on 47th St and 39th Ave in Sunnyside Gardens on Feb. 15, 2012. Captain Donald Powers, who spoke at a community outreach meeting in Woodside on Wednesday, Read More »
