By Bill Parry
The first annual New Orleans jazz and food festival took place on Skillman Ave. on Saturday, despite Friday night’s blizzard dumping a foot of snow on the neighborhood. Members of The Skillman Project, an association of Skillman Ave.…
Update NYPOST A 3-year-old Queens girl died last night after falling five floors from the window of a bathroom, where she had accidentally gotten locked inside with her little sister, police said. Rusroshi Barua was found shortly after 2:30 p.m., writhing in the snow in the courtyard of the Woodside apartment building where her family lives.…
By Bill Parry
The Firewater Inn, a pub/restaurant located at 39-46 Skillman Ave., is scheduled to reopen March 1, after undergoing renovations for nearly two years. The long delay was due in part to an architect who was unfamiliar with the new zoning laws.…
Western Queens was hit by 12 inches of snow and residents and workers are digging out.…
By Bill Parry
Skillman Ave. will never be confused with Bourbon St., but Saturday afternoon it will be alive with the sights, sounds and tastes of the Big Easy. A number of Skillman Avenue establishments have organized a Mardi Gras Bar &…
By Christian Murray
The Long Island City man who struck and killed a bicyclist on a Sunnyside street last July will be sentenced to five years in prison. Alex J. Batista, 25, of 53-36 Van Dam Street, was driving drunk along Greenpoint Avenue on July 18 when he drove into Roger Hernandez,…
By Bill Parry
A large pet store opened on Queens Blvd. this weekend that offers pet food and a vast range of supplies. Wespawpets, located at 44-05 Queens Blvd. (the former location of an OTB), sells items such as doggie health food,…
The Sunnyside community is coming together to raise funds for the family of Benjamin Wheeler, one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Ben was the son of former Sunnyside residents David and Francine Wheeler,…
By Bill Parry
A new supermarket is opening on Greenpoint Avenue at the location that was previously occupied by Foodtown. Foodtown, which operated at 41-25 Greenpoint Ave., closed in December following the store owner’s inability to renew the lease with Jamal Hammad,…
By Bill Parry
A first floor kitchen fire broke out inside an apartment building at 51-04 Skillman Ave. on Thursday night. When firefighters arrived on the scene the fire appeared fairly innocuous–until they noticed it was located near an old-fashioned dumbwaiter.…