August 30, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
The Sunnyside United Neighborhood Network (SUNN) is holding its fall graffiti cleanup event on Saturday, September 11, at 10 am. Volunteers will meet outside of the Sunnyside Reform Church on Skillman Ave and 48th Street.
The entire neighborhood is encouraged to volunteer and in past events more than 100 people have turned out.
Volunteers are typically split into groups, with each group responsible to clean up a particular section of the neighborhood. Each group will clean or paint over graffiti on walls, store gates and public fixtures.
SUNN supplies the paint and supplies; volunteers from the community supply the elbow grease.
For further information, please call SUNN at 646-298-8669 or visit the website: http://sunnysideunited.com
Previous coverage:
http://sunnysidepost.com/category/community-groups/sunnyside-graffiti/
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August 28, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
A late-night brawl erupted at Casa Romana this morning with the fight spilling out onto the street, a police source said.
Several police cars and FDNY ambulances arrived at the bar/restaurant located on the corner of 39th Street and Queens Blvd.
While the details are still unknown, one witness said several arrests were made and even the nearby subway train at 40th street was stopped and searched. A police helicopter was hovering with spotlights flashing.
The investigation is ongoing and more details will be released shortly.
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August 28, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer helped secure $35,000 for Woodside On The Move, according to a press release issued by his office August 26. The funds will go toward youth and senior programming, supplies and staffing.
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August 28, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
George Burles reports:
Manolo’s, the Mexican restaurant on the corner of Greenpoint Ave. and 47th Street, has been closed for some weeks. But the police are looking over the store for suspicious narcotics related activity. A court order prohibits the store owners from removing items from the premises.
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August 27, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer announced today that he has launched a school-supply drive to help lower income residents get the supplies their children need.
“For most children, the beginning of a new school year means new clothes, new shoes and a new backpack filled with fresh supplies. But thousands of other kids across the City begin the school year without these necessary items. And with the economy still slow, some parents just don’t have the money to buy the supplies their children need to start the school year,” Van Bramer said in a statement.
His office will be collecting new packets of pens, pencils, backpacks, lunchboxes, binders, loose-leaf paper, folders, glue sticks, index cards, protractors, notebooks, graphing paper, rulers, calculators, markers, highlighters, crayons, watercolor paints or any other school-type product.
All supplies will go directly to students in need at local schools.
Donations can be dropped off at Van Bramer’s District Office on 47-01 Queens Blvd. Suite 205 Sunnyside, NY 11104 between the hours of 10-6PM (Mon-Friday) until Friday, September 17th.
Supplies can also be dropped off at the Sunnyside, Long Island City and Woodside libraries.
Van Bramer said at the close of the school-supply drive, his office will deliver the supplies collected to local school children.
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August 27, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post
WSJ.com
Police arrested a Queens woman who allegedly donned a cat mask to rob shoe stores this summer.
Shanna Spalding, 28-year-old lead singer in death metal band whose stage name is “Purgatory,” was arrested Wednesday and charged with two robberies. She may face more charges, according to police. Around 2:15 p.m., members of the First Precinct’s Anti-Crime Unit spotted her leaving a store at 92 Greene St. in SoHo and recognized her as fitting the description of the suspect who had been dubbed the “cat woman robber.” An officer entered the store and was told by a sales clerk that she had just been robbed by a woman brandishing a gun.
The other officers in the unit continued to follow Ms. Spalding and when notified of the robbery by their partner, they arrested her without incident. Police said she was carrying a 9mm handgun at the time of her arrest.
The cat-masked robberies began at a Nine West shoe store at 71-34 Austin Street in Forest Hills on April 23, another at the Arche shore store at 10 Astor Place in the Village on June 24 and a third at The Body Shop, next door to the Nine West store in Forest Hills, on June 25. In the first two robberies, the robber presented a note to clerks reading, ‘I have a gun, give me the money.’ The robber made off with cash amounts up to $500, police said.
So far, police have only charged Ms. Spalding, of Woodside, with the Arche store robbery and the one on Greene Street, but officials say she could face more charges. Ms. Spalding was awaiting arraignment.
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