May 31, 2019 By Meghan Sackman The Butcher Block, Sunnyside’s Irish supermarket, has opened its new entrance on Queens Boulevard after nearly three years of stop-start construction. The locale, located at 43-46 41st St, has a new entrance at 40-15 Queens Blvd, which opened yesterday to customers, according to co-owner Michael Roche. The expansion, Roche said,… Read more »
May 30, 2019 By Max Murray Sunnyside Community Services is holding a Queens District Attorney candidate forum next week. The candidates will meet at Sunnyside Community Services on Monday, June 3 at 6:30 p.m. as they battle it out for the Democratic nomination. Six of the seven Democratic candidates who are vying for the nomination… Read more »
May 29, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan One thousand new electric mopeds hit the streets of Brooklyn and Queens earlier today after tech startup Revel launched their rent-by-the-minute moped business in the two boroughs. After a successful test run last summer of 68 bikes in Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the moped sharing business will now cover… Read more »
May 28, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan The Department of Transportation installed the first of hundreds of new speed cameras–specifically in school zones–on Friday. The new speed camera, which went up near P.S. 199 on the Upper West Side, was the first to be installed since the city got the go ahead from Albany that it… Read more »
May 28, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Sunnyside was buzzing yesterday as NYPD officers removed a swarm of 20,000 bees from the side of a 45th Street building. The sizable swarm had gathered at 48-02 45 St., between 48th and 50th Avenues, and quickly became a problem for pedestrians trying to walk by the building. NYPD… Read more »
May 28, 2019 By Christian Murray The memorial dedicated to those canines that were frequent visitors to the Lou Lodati dog run and have passed away over the years was trashed Saturday night. Vandals destroyed 117 tags–each tag paying tribute to a deceased dog–that were attached to the fence on a keyring. The tags, pink for… Read more »
May 26, 2019 By Christian Murray Police have arrested the man wanted for shooting a worker at a Skillman Avenue drug store last month. Gianne Peralta, 36, from New Jersey, was arrested on May 15 and charged with attempted robbery in the first degree and two counts of assault, according to police. Police received a… Read more »
May 23, 2019 By Christian Murray The police are investigating the death of a 42-year-old man who was found dead inside his Sunnyside house yesterday. Police received a 911 call at 8 a.m. Wednesday that a man was unconscious and unresponsive at 41-32 40th St. The call came in from the victim’s friend who discovered… Read more »
May 23, 2019 By Christian Murray An all-way stop sign has gone up on the corner of 57th Street and Woodside Avenue following pleas from civic leaders and elected officials. The intersection, located near St. Sebastian’s Catholic Academy and P.S. 11, has been the scene of several crashes in recent years. On Feb. 15, 2018,… Read more »
May 23, 2019 By Christian Murray The 5-alarm fire that destroyed six stores on Queens Boulevard in December was caused by faulty electrics at Romantic Depot, according to the official FDNY incident report obtained by the Sunnyside Post. The report, completed on April 18, noted that the Dec. 13 fire erupted inside Romantic Depot, located… Read more »