By Bill Parry A Colombian restaurant opened this week on the northern edge of Sunnyside Gardens in the location that many residents once feared would become a strip club. Emilio Rubio and Lyda Barona, a husband and wife duo, are the owners of Baru Restaurant,…
By Liz Peterson Last week, the Straphangers Campaign released its “State of the Subways” report card and ranked the No. 7 train as the second best line in NYC. The Straphangers report, which reviewed 19 lines, was based on six measures using recent data compiled by the MTA.…
By Pat Dorfman More than 1,000 residents turned out at John Andrews Park in Long Island City on Tuesday to attend the annual “Crime Night Out” festivities. The gathering was held to support the interaction between law enforcement officials and residents throughout precinct 108,…
With little fanfare, Takesushi, a Japanese restaurant located at 43-46 42nd Street, opened last month where Transylvania once operated.
The restaurant is owned by Robin Kawada, a Japanese native, who has spent the last 40 years in the US working in the fish business.…
Sunnyside Shines kicked off its Sunnyside Summer Streets campaign on Saturday by hosting the 12th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Concert. The sound of 1930’s jazz filled the shopping district around 46th St. and Queens Blvd. as the concert took place underneath the Sunnyside arch.…
Habibi, the Lebanese eatery located on the corner of 43rd Street and 43rd Ave., has closed. The store, which was open for 12 months, was run by Mehdi Osman and served items such as chicken and beef shawarma, falafel rolls and hummus that were cooked by Osman’s wife,…
By George Burles The Celtic Park residence was once the home of the famed Irish-American Athletic Club that stood there from 1898 to 1930. Members of the club won 56 medals for the USA in the Olympic games. The legendary Jim Thorpe also competed there.…
By Kim Brown Reiner A performing arts studio is opening in the second week of September at 43-20 43rd Avenue, the location of a former discount store. Sunnyside Performing Arts will offer ballet and yoga for children and adults, as well as tap dancing,…
The Hip to Hip Theatre Company presented its version of Hamlet
at Sunnyside Gardens Park on Friday. Hundreds braved warm temperatures and mosquitoes to view the evening performance—which was a homecoming for the troupe, founded in Sunnyside in 2007.…
Sunnyside Shines’ summer schedule of free movies in Noonan Park (47th Ave. and 43rd St.) has had its problems this season. The first event was rained out, while the second was delayed for an hour because of a missing generator and a bad DVD copy.…