Jimmy Van Bramer was declared a winner last week. City and State, a website for New York’s political chattering classes, listed him a political “winner” based on his response to a bribe offered to him by a Long Island City businessman.…
May 28, By Christian Murray
Sunnyside, Queens: A new group is forming in Sunnyside dedicated to the LGBT community. Brendan Becker, who has lived in Sunnyside for the past two years, has just established “Sunnyside Out”, a group that will focus on organizing local LGBT get-togethers as well as performing community service.…
An ice cream store is opening up on Greenpoint Avenue, at the former location of New Neighborhood Pharmacy.
Details of the store, to be located at 45-12 Greenpoint Ave, are not yet known.
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May 27, By Bill Parry
Sunnyside, Queens: Sunnyside’s commercial district got a bit more colorful last week with the addition of 47 new hanging baskets of flowers installed on street lamps around Queens Blvd. and Greenpoint Ave. The planters hold ivy geraniums in shades of purple,…
May 24, By Christian Murray
The NYC Department of Buildings has reviewed the plans for a 9 story building that is being constructed on 43rd Street and has concluded that they meet zoning code. Joe Conley, chairman of Community Board 2,…
May 23, By Christian Murray
Sunnyside, Queens: The horror movie played out in a Sunnyside warehouse. In April, a Woodside resident was walking down Roosevelt Avenue and was picked up off the street by three men and held in a de facto torture chamber in Sunnyside for over a month,…
May 23, By Bill Parry
Sunnyside, Queens: Hundreds of enthusiastic children, accompanied by their parents, packed the main room at the Sunnyside Community Services Center on Tuesday to make it clear that they are opposed to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed cuts to after-school programs.…
UPDATE: THE EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN: IT WILL BE ON SUNDAY, MAY 26. May 24, By Bill Parry
Sunnyside, Queens: This Saturday is the Memorial Day Fair at Sunnyside Gardens Park and its organizers have grown obsessed with the weather.…
May 21, By Bill Parry,
Sunnyside, Queens: An internationally acclaimed artist who lives and works on 40th Street will be painting a mural on a Sunnyside building next month that’s been targeted by graffiti vandals for years. Mark Salinas,…
May 20, By Christian Murray
Community Board 2, which represents Sunnyside and surrounding neighborhoods, has requested that the New York City Department of Buildings review the developer’s plans pertaining to the nine-story residential building that is being constructed on 43rd Street in Sunnyside.…