This weekend represents the beginning of the cut backs on the B24 bus line. The B24 bus line, which connects Brooklyn and Queens– via Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Sunnyside–will no longer run on weekends beginning June 25, and its weekday service with be reduced.…
Category: General News
Queens Blvd. Tree Mysteriously Cut Down
A healthy tree located on Queens Blvd (bet. 43rd and 44th streets) was mysteriously cut down about two weeks ago. Many alarmed Sunnyside residents are now beginning to ask why. The mature tree was located outside of Foxy’s and the now-vacant Flynn’s Inn (see pictures below).…
Indian restaurant on Skillman Ave. to Open Next Week
Basmati Table, the much-anticipated Indian restaurant located on Skillman Ave (between 46th and 47th), is scheduled to open next Wednesday or Thursday. The restaurant is going to be co-owned by Alim Maruf, who is the owner of Bliss Restaurant, an up-market French Bistro that is located diagonally across the street.…
New Sunnyside Restaurant Serves Live Octopus, Lobster and Squid
WARNING: The video below contains some stomach churning footage. Not for queasy westerners. A new Korean restaurant, Sik Gaek, debuted last Wednesday at 49-11 Roosevelt Ave., Woodside. This is a big step for the owner who has a well-established restaurant by the same name in Flushing.…
Sunnyside Farmers Market Kicks Off
The Sunnyside Farmers’ Market opened for the summer/fall seasons on Saturday. This year there were 14 vendors, up from the 11 that were their last year. “It was a good turnout for the first day back,” said Margaret Hoffman (far left above),…
Residents Try to Understand Sunnyside/Woodside Zoning Maze
Sunnyside Post New York City Planning officials told residents at a community meeting held by Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer last week that it is unlikely that developers would build structures more than 8 stories high along the Sunnyside section of Queens Blvd if the zoning proposal went into effect.…
EMT Called to Sunnyside’s Lou Lodati Playground
EMT workers were called out to a Sunnyside park around 12:15 pm Monday to provide assistance to a drunken man who was found in a deep sleep with cuts all over his body. The man, who was lying under a park bench on Skillman Ave (42nd St.),…
Associated’s Recycling Center Draws Complaints
Two Sunnyside residents complained to police about Associated supermarket’s recycling center on 44th Street (located between Greenpoint Ave. and Queens Blvd), at the police precinct meeting on Tuesday night. Nina and Dan Farrey, who live near the supermarket, claimed that several men congregate around the recycling center,…
Crime Dips, Although Sunnyside Not Incident Free
Deputy Inspector Thomas Kavanagh, the head of the 108th police precinct, reported at Tuesday night’s precinct meeting that crime dropped 6.5 percent in the past 28 days ending May 21, compared to the same 28-day period one year ago. He said that crime was essentially flat for the year so far—compared to the same period in 2009.…
Sunnyside Murder Cases Are Still Pending
This week marks the first anniversary of the arrest of Gary McGurk, an Irish national from Woodside, who allegedly strangled and stabbed his one-time Sunnyside girlfriend to death on April 26, 2009. He faces a murder charge. Despite all of the attention at the time,…