A group of restaurant and bar owners along Skillman Ave. is hosting a pub crawl next Saturday. The establishments that are participating in the event are: the Copper Kettle, Aubergine Café, The Brogue, Murphy’s Bar, Quaint, Flynn’s Garden Inn, Claret, and The Dog and Duck.…
New Neighborhood Pharmacy is typically closed on Saturdays since the owner observes the Jewish Sabbath. However, today the store’s front gate was down for another reason. New Neighborhood Pharmacy, located at 45-12 Greenpoint Ave., has closed for good. Most of the items that had been in the store had been removed,…
The owner of Mario’s Restaurant, an Italian eatery located at 43-04 47th Ave., will be appearing on Sweet Genius, the dessert-based competition that pits four of America’s leading pastry chefs against one another through three rounds of challenges critiqued and judged by Ron Ben-Israel,…
Neighborhood politicians held a press conference this morning at 46th Street and Queens Blvd. to warn residents about a sexual predator on the loose who attacked a Sunnyside woman on Easter Sunday. The press conference came just two days after a 30-year-old woman was attacked near 39-08 46th Street at 5:45 am.…
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Speaker Christine C. Quinn and Mike Novak, the local resident who came to the aid of a woman being sexually assaulted yesterday morning, will speak out against the sex attack which took place in Sunnyside on Easter Sunday.…
A 30-year-old Sunnyside female was sexually attacked on 46th Street this morning (Sunday). The perpetrator attacked the woman in the vicinity of 39-08 46th Street and “put his hands down her blouse and punched her in the face,” according to police.…
Sunnyside residents have always found parking tough. However, is it tough enough to pay $130,000 for a double garage on Barnett Ave? “I know it sounds like an outrageous price for a garage,” said Rita Lowry of Welcome Home Real Estate,…
In celebration of Easter, Christians from Queen of Angels Roman Catholic Church were joined by parishioners from All Saints Church, Sunnyside Reformed Church and Grace Fellowship yesterday in the reenactment of the Good Friday Crucifixion. About 600-800 were part of the service that took place on Skillman Ave.…
By Pat Dorfman More than 1,000 mourners crowded into Woodside’s St. Mary’s Winfield Church Thursday morning, with hundreds more outside, to show respect to the Staunton–O’Dowd family, who suffered the loss of young Rory Staunton. Rory fell ill last week after a light scrape while playing basketball.…
Preliminary plans for the revamp of the Thomas P. Noonan Playground have been released by the New York City Parks Dept. and will include an upgrade to the rainbow sprinkler system, a new play area, safety features and new shrubbery. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer,…