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The Diving Bell is On The Market

The Diving Bell, which has been in business for about two years, is up for sale. The bar, located next to the 46th Street subway stop on Queens Blvd (North), is listed for $89,000. For more details, please click on this link …

Stay Tuned: The Sunnyside Sound Project

The Sunnyside Sound Project, a site dedicated to profiling Sunnyside business owners and residents, has interviewed 34 people in the past year. The interviews can be found at Sunnysidesoundproject.org. Sabine Heinlein, the writer/producer, has recorded interviews with people such as Jimmy Van Bramer to the local school crossing guard at PS 150,…

Corner 46 Bodega Left Empty

The bodega at the corner of 46th and Queens Blvd (north side) has appeared to have closed. All items have been removed from the store.…

The Dog Guru is Coming

Next month, Raja Shah, the owner and operator of the Dog Guru, will open a dog-rescue operation in Sunnyside, at the 5,500 sqf. warehouse space out the back of the former Nelson’s Christmas Shoppe. Shah has plans to take the warehouse space and bring in 15 rescue dogs,…

Commercial Businesses Open and Close

Lenny’s Pizza, which is the latest entrant in the Italian/pizza market place, is opening soon in a nicely renovated space. This was the former site of El Triangulo Bakery & Restaurant, a popular Colombian bakery that’s business suffered after it was closed by the NYC health department last November.…

Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks

Love them or hate them…but there is some news coming out of Starbucks.  Starbucks is now offering free Wi-Fi. Customers with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, tablets and mobile phones will have unlimited Internet access to surf the Web, connect with social networks, search for jobs or work at their neighborhood Starbucks.…

Sunnysider Named Poet Laureate

Paolo S. Javier, a Sunnyside resident, was named the fifth Poet Laureate of Queens last month. His three year appointment was announced at Borough Hall by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Queens College President James Muyskens. Queens’ newest poet laureate is an author of two poetry collections and four short books of poetry,…

Van Bramer to Offer $350K for Contested Queens Lot

July 06, 2010 10:00AM A plot of land unofficially dubbed the “Woodside Triangle Park” in Woodside, Queens may be safe from destruction, after a decade-long fight to save the space, according to the New York Daily News. Community advocates had lobbied to stop the plot’s landowner,…

Alleged Graffiti Perpetrator Responds to Article

In March, the Sunnyside Post ran a story about the arrest of Daniel Wattenbarg on graffiti charges. (the full story is available at the following link). Yesterday, Wattenbarg e-mailed a detailed response as to what led to this alleged crime. His comments are below.…

Crime Down, New Captain Named

Deputy Inspector Thomas Kavanagh, the outgoing head of the 108th police precinct, reported at Tuesday night’s precinct meeting that crime dropped 9.6 percent in the past 28 days, compared to the same 28-day period one year ago. He said that crime was essentially flat for the year to date—compared to the six month period in 2009.…