March 12, 2020 By Allie Griffin Police are looking for a group of five teenagers who violently robbed another teen and a man in Sunnyside and Woodside on Saturday. The teens first ganged up on a 16-year-old boy near 41-06 50th St. at around 1:23 a.m. in Sunnyside, police said. They punched, kicked and knocked… Read more »
March 12, 2020 By Christian Murray Modell’s Sporting Goods, a family-owned company that was founded in 1889, announced Wednesday that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and that it would be closing all 115 of its stores. The company, which has nine stores in Queens, is one of many traditional retailers to go bust… Read more »
March 11, 2020, By Michael Dorgan A Sunnyside discount store has come under fire on social media for allegedly selling hand sanitizer products at inflated prices. A Facebook post, which went up on the “Lost Sunnyside Woodside LIC and community” page, said that Sunrise 99 Cent Store, located at 40-08 Queens Blvd, was selling 32-ounce… Read more »
March 11, 2020 By Allie Griffin The City’s Department of Education (DOE) has canceled in-person parent teacher conferences this week at public schools and instead will hold the conferences by phone or virtually. Face-to-face parent teacher conferences that were scheduled for Thursday evening and Friday afternoon are now being swapped for over-the-phone conferences due to… Read more »
By Michael Dorgan The $3.2 million revamp of Woodside’s Little Bush Playground is set to commence next month, the Parks Dept. has announced. The less-than-an-acre park at Laurel Hill Boulevard and 63rd Street will be re-imagined with play areas, gathering spaces and a reconstructed basketball court. It will be the first time the park has… Read more »
March 10, 2020 By Christian Murray and Michael Dorgan New York City’s bold vision for Sunnyside Yard is decades away from becoming a reality—if at all. The Economic Development Corp. presented the Sunnyside Yard Master Plan at Community Board 2’s monthly meeting Thursday – the first time the completed plan had gone before the public… Read more »
March 9, 2020 By Allie Griffin With the number of coronavirus cases in New York increasing daily, Mayor Bill de Blasio advised New Yorkers to skip packed subway cars and to work from home if possible. New York City now has 16 confirmed cases, including two in Queens, the Mayor said this morning. Yesterday, the… Read more »
March 9, 2020 By Christian Murray Police are looking for a man who robbed a check-cashing store at gunpoint on Queens Boulevard yesterday and made off with $2,100 in cash. The suspect allegedly walked into the PAY-O-MATIC store at 46-14 Queens Blvd. and handed the teller a note. “I have a gun and a bomb…. Read more »
March 6, 2020 By Shane O’Brien and Christian Murray A long-time Sunnyside Gardens resident has produced a video calling on the Department of Transportation to remove the protected bicycle lanes from Skillman and 43rd Avenues and return the corridors back to the way they were prior to their overhaul in 2018. Dorothy Morehead, a local… Read more »
March 4, 2020 By Michael Dorgan U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer told crowds at the Sunnyside Woodside St Pats For All parade Sunday that Donald Trump is not welcome in Queens. Schumer, wearing an Irish tricolored sash, walked the streets of Sunnyside and Woodside at the parade “For All” with his supporters and yelled through a… Read more »