July 31, By Michael Florio
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
Hip to Hip Theatre Company, a non-profit arts organization that specializes in family friendly productions, will be bringing “Free Shakespeare in the Park” to Sunnyside and Long Island City this weekend and next.…
July 31, By Christian Murray
Woodside: The Department of Transportation is expected to start construction on its redesign of the half-mile stretch on Broadway—between Northern Boulevard and 65th Street—in the next two weeks.
The DOT will be converting the corridor into one lane in each direction with a center turning lane and extra-wide parking lanes (see below for details).…
July 30, By Michael Florio
The No. 7 train has been crowned New York City’s best subway line by the transit advocacy group Straphangers.
This is the seventh time in 16 years that the No. 7 has received the top ranking since Straphangers began its State of the Subways annual report of the city’s 20 subway lines.…
July 29, By Christian Murray
The gritty entrance to the 46th Street subway station—long known for its pigeons, ratty newspaper stands and street vendors—has been transformed into a tidy plaza complete with tables, chairs and planters.
Sunnyside Shines cut the ribbon today to what’s now called the “Bliss Plaza” that features 16 planters,…
July 27, By Christian Murray
A man entered Chase Bank at 47-11 Queens Blvd on Tuesday and demanded cash. – See more at: http://sunnysidepost.com/?s=robbery#sthash.A9TAjNpZ.dpuf
Chase Bank in Sunnyside was robbed Friday with the perpetrator fleeing with nearly $6,000 in cash,…
Muslims around Sunnyside and Woodside are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.
A large prayer service was held this morning at 47th Av and 39 Place– as well as other locations around the neighborhood.…
July 27, By Christian Murray
In November 2009, Green Point Furniture, located at 46-06 Greenpoint Avenue closed, after being in operation for seven years.
Since then the property—arguably, prime retail space—has just sat empty with its front gates down and its interior left unkempt.…
July 26, By Christian Murray
Two men got into a heated argument in the vicinity of the Woodside Houses last night that left a 50-year-old man shot dead and a 32-year-old with minor stab wounds, according to police.
The two men got into dispute shortly after 11 pm that escalated to a point where the 50-year-old man stabbed the 32-year-old.…
July 25, By Christian Murray
A Woodside man who shared Internet files of children performing sex acts and, separately, inappropriately touched a young female relative, pleaded guilty to sex crimes charges today, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.…
July 25, By Christian Murray
Sunnyside Shines, a business improvement group that promotes this neighborhood’s commercial district, announced this week that it was responsible for cleaning more than 250 instances of graffiti for the fiscal year ending June 30.…