April 12, 2021 By Christina Santucci Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), which has been closed since the start of the pandemic, is reopening later this month. Members – as well as those who bought tickets to the Envisioning 2001 exhibition before the building closed – will be able to visit on April 30,… Read more »
April 11, 2021 By Christian Murray Seventeen candidates are vying to replace term-limited Jimmy Van Bramer as the representative for the 26th Council District. In today’s podcast we talk to Steven Raga, who is one of 15 Democrats vying for the seat that covers Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City and a portion of Astoria. The… Read more »
April 8, 2021 By Allie Griffin More than a dozen candidates vying for the 26th City Council district seat debated hot-button issues at a forum Wednesday night. The 15 candidates discussed a variety of topics of concern to Queens voters — everything from bike lanes to Amazon to NYPD funding — at the forum hosted… Read more »
April 8, 2021 By Ryan Songalia Amit Bagga, a candidate for city council, introduced an ambitious policy proposal Thursday that aims to curb what he describes as “predatory and exploitative practices” of the City’s 80,000 food delivery workers—many of whom are immigrants—by the large food app companies. The proposal, titled Delivery Justice Now!, represents a… Read more »
April 8, 2021 By Christian Murray The Long Island City condo market saw a frenzy of sales activity in the first quarter of 2021, with buyers coming to the market at a rate more pronounced than the weeks that followed the November 2018 Amazon announcement. There were 191 signed deals for the Jan. 1, 2021… Read more »
April 8, 2021 By Allie Griffin Mayor Bill de Blasio announced sweeping changes to the city’s COVID-19 closure policies for New York City public schools. The city has doubled the number of coronavirus cases that requires the Department of Education to close a school for 10 days. Beginning Monday, schools will close for in-person instruction… Read more »
April 7, 2021 By Allie Griffin An eight-alarm fire that tore through a Jackson Heights apartment building Tuesday night has left hundreds homeless and resulted in 25 people being injured. The fire started inside an apartment located at 89-07 34th Ave. shortly after 1 p.m. and quickly spread throughout the building. By 8 p.m., it… Read more »
April 6, 2021 By Allie Griffin Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced Tuesday his community board appointments as well as a number of new reforms that aim to raise board standards. Richards appointed 373 members across Queens’ 14 community boards out of a pool of more than 900 applicants — a record number of applications… Read more »
April 6, 2021 By Christina Santucci Firefighters were battling a massive blaze Tuesday afternoon that broke out in an apartment on the top floor of a six-story building in Jackson Heights. The fire started inside an apartment located at 89-07 34th Ave. shortly after 1 p.m. By 4:45 p.m., it had been upgraded to a… Read more »
April 6, 2021 By Ryan Songalia New Yorkers as young as 16 years of age became eligible Tuesday to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, a week after the minimum age to receive the shot was dropped to 30. The move comes two weeks ahead of President Joe Biden’s April 19 date to make all adults eligible… Read more »