By Bill Parry Woodside’s Jay Radner created a running club in the winter of 2009 and today that local group is 280-members strong. Twice a week members of the “Woodside-Sunnyside Runners” meet up at Windmuller Park for a serious run. However,…
Time is running out on Yasko Takeno-Williams’ dream of opening the Sunnyside Performing Arts Studio on 43rd Ave. Last month, Takeno-Williams entered into a lease to establish the school at 43-20 43rd Avenue, which would offer yoga, theater, ballet and dance classes primarily for children.…
A Mid Sunnyside Night’s Dream from GEB on Vimeo. Enjoy the work of Sunnyside resident George Burles.…
Many Sunnyside and Woodside children who attend elementary school on the Northern side of Queens Blvd may no longer be spending their middle school years at IS 125. Officials are in preliminary discussions about sending children who complete PS 150 (40-01 43 Avenue) and PS11 (54-25 Skillman Ave.) to a brand new school located at 1-50 51st Avenue in Long Island City.…
A car was struck broadside and pushed into a Sunnyside grocery store on 43rd Ave. last night. According to eyewitnesses, one of the vehicles was speeding along 42nd Street, went through a red light and hit the other vehicle traveling east on 43rd Avenue. …
. Sunnyside No Longer Needs an Introduction! By Swain Weiner Sunnyside has spent most of its history in relative obscurity—viewed for years as just another mundane, middle-income Queens neighborhood. However, in the past decade Sunnyside has shed that stereotype. Today it is better known as being a vibrant,…
By Kim Brown Reiner An event featuring vintage cartoons, live music and pizza will be held at Sunnyside Gardens Park later this month. The event — to be held on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 6:30pm — has been organized by two Sunnyside women who formed “Flicks in the Garden” last year,…
By Bill Parry Yeti of Hieizan, a Nepalese/Japanese restaurant located at 43-16 Queens Blvd, is no longer in operation. The restaurant closed last week and has already been replaced by Malingo, which offers similar cuisine. The new restaurant is owned by Naren and Ravi Gurung.…
It’s been a long time coming but the Hallmark store on Greenpoint Ave. is undergoing a makeover. The store, located at 45-15 Greenpoint Ave., was purchased in November 2011 by a Filipino family who have decided to renovate it after the previous owner had failed to do so in the 25-years they had owned it.…
By Bill Parry Hundreds turned out for the Skillman Avenue Street Fair on Saturday afternoon. Vendors stretched from 44th St. to 48th St. selling items like cookware, hats & T-shirts, jewelry, artwork, cell-phone covers and even house plants. For the kids there was an array of bounce houses and for adults there was acupressure massage available: $10 for ten minutes,…