Nov. 1, 2021 By Allie Griffin More than 2,000 firefighters have called in ‘sick’ as the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate took effect Monday. More than half of the 2,300 who didn’t show up for work are believed to be unvaccinated, NBC News reported, and are apparently protesting the city’s vaccine mandate for its public workers…. Read more »
Nov. 1, 2021 Staff Report Three Queens organizations will be hosting a series of events Monday, Nov. 1 to celebrate Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Sunnyside Shines, Friends of Diversity Plaza, and the Queens Economic Development Corporation are producing a simultaneous celebration in Bliss-46th Street in Sunnyside, Diversity Plaza (74th Street)… Read more »
Nov. 1, 2021 By Allie Griffin A man pointed a gun at two straphangers who were having a physical altercation on board a crowded Queens E train Saturday night. The suspect spotted two people fighting on board a northbound E train at around 7:20 p.m. as it neared the 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue station in Jackson… Read more »
Oct. 29, 2021 By Allie Griffin Council Member Robert Holden has called on the NYPD to become more proactive in towing illegally parked cars in western Queens. Holden penned a letter to Police Commissioner Dermot Shea Thursday demanding that the NYPD step up its enforcement in his district that covers Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village, Ridgewood… Read more »
Oct. 29, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Queens Tech Night, a free networking and community-building event for techies, will return for a meet-up in Long Island City next month – with a slightly different twist. The event will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 3 at a new advanced manufacturing facility inside… Read more »
Oct. 28, 2021 By Allie Griffin A number of renewable energy projects will be soon be coming online — negating the need for NRG’s proposed peaker plant that the state rejected earlier this week, according to several Queens leaders. Local politicians said the state has no need for NRG’s proposal, which sought to overhaul the… Read more »
Oct. 28, 2021 By Allie Griffin Police are looking for a senior who got handsy with a stranger onboard a subway train in Long Island City Tuesday. The suspect, believed to be in his 70s, allegedly grabbed the butt of a 49-year-old man on board a northbound E train near the Court Square-23rd Station at… Read more »
Oct. 27, 2021 By Christian Murray The streets of Sunnyside Gardens will be closed for a few hours Sunday night to make way for approximately 1,000 kids who will be trick-or-treating. The annual Halloween event through Sunnyside Gardens will return this year in full force after the pandemic crimped festivities last year. “I’m expecting 1,000… Read more »
Oct. 27, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A facility offering indoor beach volleyball—as well as a bar and lounge area—will be opening in Sunnyside in the coming months. The establishment, which will be 17,000 square feet in size, is opening on the ground floor of an industrial building at 41-20 39th St.—across the street from the… Read more »
Oct. 27, 2021 By Allie Griffin The state has rejected a controversial proposal put forward by a Houston-based energy company to build a natural gas power plant in Astoria. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation denied permits sought by NRG Energy to revamp its 50-year-old Astoria Generating Station on 20th Avenue by replacing… Read more »