The second Taste of Sunnyside was held Tuesday night at the Sunnyside Community Services Ballroom. Twenty local restaurants, which offered a variety of ethnic fare, provided food samples to about 600 attendees over the course of the evening. There were two individual tastings this year that were both sold out.…
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Van Bramer Funds ‘Teen Room’ at Woodside Library
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer announced Tuesday that he is allocating $125,000 of city funding to create a “teen reading room” at the Woodside library. Van Bramer said the funding will help carve out an area for young adults that will include an area with the latest technology. …
Sunnyside Pub/Restaurant Opens Friday
A new bar/restaurant is scheduled to open on the corner of Skillman Ave. and 46th Street this Friday, replacing the shuttered Bliss Bistro. The pub/restaurant, called “The Dog and Duck”, will officially open at 5pm Friday. The pub, located at 45-20 Skillman Ave.,…
Pols Notify Residents of Sunnyside/Woodside Groper
Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer held a press conference on 46th Street and Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside today to alert the public and aggressively search for a perpetrator who has been groping women, and one 12-year-old girl in the Sunnyside/Woodside neighborhoods of Queens.…
Sexual Predator Targeting Sunnyside/Woodside
A man on a black mountain-bicycle has approached several local women riding up behind them and grabbing their buttocks or breasts–before fleeing. Five women and a 12-year-old girl have been attacked by the man, believed to be a 30-40 year-old Hispanic.…
NYPD Helicopter Wakes up Residents
A police helicopter woke up hundreds of Sunnyside/Woodside residents early Tuesday morning as cops undertook a search for three men who broke into a store on Greenpoint Ave. and 41st Street. The helicopter started its pursuit at around 5:00 am Tuesday after a convenience store at 41-11 Greenpoint Ave.…
Local Biz Leaders Get Honored By Pols
A number of Sunnyside/Woodside business owners received awards from local politicians on Tuesday for boosting the neighborhood’s economy and overall vibrancy. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan held an event at Saffron Garden on Skillman Ave. and honored seven local business owners with proclamations from the New York City Council and New York State Assembly.…
Two Sunnyside Restaurants Open Next Week
Two restaurants are scheduled to open next. The Romanian Garden, a bustling ethnic restaurant currently located at 46-04 Skillman Ave., is expected to shut down its Skillman Ave. location and reopen at a new site next week, according to Sorin Bodnariu,…
Residents Donate School Supplies for Local Kids
Parents and children at IS 125 in Woodside received a large batch of school supplies on Wednesday, the result of the 2nd annual school supply drive established by councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s office. Due to the difficult economic climate, residents were ask by the councilman to donate a host of different school supply items,…
Burglars Target Two Sunnyside Buildings
Burglars have targeted two Sunnyside apartment buildings on 40th Street–and the residents want answers. Residents from the buildings turned out at the Police Precinct 108 meeting in Sunnyside last week claiming that their respective buildings have been broken into 8 to 10 times in recent months.…