With little fanfare, Takesushi, a Japanese restaurant located at 43-46 42nd Street, opened last month where Transylvania once operated.
The restaurant is owned by Robin Kawada, a Japanese native, who has spent the last 40 years in the US working in the fish business.…
Sunnyside Shines kicked off its Sunnyside Summer Streets campaign on Saturday by hosting the 12th Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Concert. The sound of 1930’s jazz filled the shopping district around 46th St. and Queens Blvd. as the concert took place underneath the Sunnyside arch.…
Habibi, the Lebanese eatery located on the corner of 43rd Street and 43rd Ave., has closed. The store, which was open for 12 months, was run by Mehdi Osman and served items such as chicken and beef shawarma, falafel rolls and hummus that were cooked by Osman’s wife,…
By George Burles The Celtic Park residence was once the home of the famed Irish-American Athletic Club that stood there from 1898 to 1930. Members of the club won 56 medals for the USA in the Olympic games. The legendary Jim Thorpe also competed there.…
By Kim Brown Reiner A performing arts studio is opening in the second week of September at 43-20 43rd Avenue, the location of a former discount store. Sunnyside Performing Arts will offer ballet and yoga for children and adults, as well as tap dancing,…
The Hip to Hip Theatre Company presented its version of Hamlet
at Sunnyside Gardens Park on Friday. Hundreds braved warm temperatures and mosquitoes to view the evening performance—which was a homecoming for the troupe, founded in Sunnyside in 2007.…
Sunnyside Shines’ summer schedule of free movies in Noonan Park (47th Ave. and 43rd St.) has had its problems this season. The first event was rained out, while the second was delayed for an hour because of a missing generator and a bad DVD copy.…
By Bill Parry When J.P. Barry lost his father to cancer 10 months ago, the Irish immigrant decided to organize a fundraising event in Woodside to raise funds to fight the disease. The concept for his fundraiser was modeled after the popular Irish event called “Shave or dye.” Presenters at an Irish radio station ask listeners to sponsor them to shave or dye their hair to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society.…
The police are searching for a man who is wanted for allegedly exposing his genitals to a female in Woodside. The man allegedly exposed himself to a female at the intersection of 60th Street and 43rd Ave. The woman took a photo of the suspect on her cell phone.…
By Pat Dorfman “Bye Bye Birdie,” a Unity Stage Company production that is set in 1958, finished its four-day run Sunday night at Sunnyside’s Queen of Angels Auditorium, after inclement weather forced a hurried move from the courtyard of All Saints Church.…