The owners of 19 neighborhood restaurants will be gathering in one hall next Monday to provide tasty samples from their menus—in what is dubbed the “Taste of Sunnyside 3.” The event is expected to draw several hundred attendees, all of whom will be able to nibble on a variety of different cuisines,…
By Bill Parry More than a hundred people turned out on Saturday for the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to the boxers who fought at the Sunnyside Garden Arena that stood at the corner of Queens Blvd. and 45th St until 1977,…
About 40 residents, with pets in tow, attended this year’s “Blessing of the Animals” event at All Saints Church on 46th Street on Saturday. The attendees all brought dogs– with the exception of one woman who had a cat and a 7-year-old boy who brought his hamster (called Shadow).…
By Viola Gad When Mark Wilensky sat in L/CP Thomas P Noonan Park in the summer of 2009, he saw hundreds of children crammed on to the basketball courts. He asked his friend what these kids do come winter. When he got the answer: “Nothing,” he decided something had to change.…
Update: Oct 5. Starting tonight, the No. 7 train’s weekend service between Queensboro Plaza and Manhattan is going to be down for five weekends. Between the hours of Friday 11:45 pm and Monday at 5:00 am, there will be no service between Times Sq-42 St and Queensboro Plaza (in either direction) on the following weekends: October 6-8,…
The Blessing of the Animals will take place at All Saints Episcopal Church in Sunnyside on Saturday. Last year, about 25 families went to the church, located at 43-12 46th Street, accompanied by their pets. “In the past there have been dogs,…
The annual Sunnyside Gardens Park Oktoberfest is taking place Saturday and children throughout the area will be treated to a range of activities– from pumpkin decorating to face painting. “This year we are expecting between 2,000 and 2500 attendees,” said Ty Sullivan,…
By Bill Parry Sunnyside’s Irish community was stunned to learn of the death of Paul O’Shaughnessy over the weekend. The 44 year old, who lived on 44th Street, took his own life on Friday night, leaving behind his wife, Susan, and four children aged from six to 16 years.…
By Bill Parry The Sunnyside Garden Arena was the place where boxers turned up to slug it out in the ring. The arena, where Wendy’s is located today (44-11 Queens Blvd), drew many people to neighborhood between 1945 and 1977, and helped put Sunnyside on the map.…
By Bill Parry
The real estate market south of Queens Blvd. is starting to undergo a resurgence after being quiet since the economic downturn
Caryl Schiff, s real estate agent with Cooper Real Estate (47-16 44th St.) said that it used to be so slow that “we hardly left the office.” However,…