June 5, 2019 By Max Murray About 200 attendees are expected to turn out for Sunnyside’s 51st annual Flag Day Parade Saturday. The parade, which is believed to be the only one in Queens, will start at 11 a.m. on the corner of Greenpoint Avenue and 40th Street with participants marching east to Sabba Park,… Read more »
June 5, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan A flyer released by Melinda Katz’s campaign for Queens District Attorney lists Assembly Member Brian Barnwell as one of her endorsers–something the Assembly Member strongly refutes. Barnwell, who represents District 30, said he did not endorse Katz—or anyone—in the hotly contested race. He took to Twitter yesterday, flatly stating… Read more »
June 5, 2019 By Max Murray State Senator Michael Gianaris announced yesterday the passage of legislation that would ban cat declawing. The legislation, passed by both the Assembly and Senate Tuesday, would impose a $1,000 fine on any person found guilty of declawing a cat unless the procedure is medically necessary. “Cat declawing is a… Read more »
June 4, 2019 By Meghan Sackman Congress Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mixed drinks and waited on tables at a Jackson Heights restaurant Friday to promote legislation that would increase the federal minimum wage for tipped workers. Nearly 100 guests and activists gathered at The Queensboro Restaurant, located at 80-02 Northern Blvd., to watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, a… Read more »
June 3, 2019 By Christian Murray (Updated) Another piece of debris appears to have fallen from the 7 train tracks along Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside. A resident took to twitter Monday afternoon after almost being struck by a piece of metal while walking under the Roosevelt Avenue line near 53rd Street. Pictures were posted, accompanied… Read more »
June 3, 2019 By Christian Murray A Brooklyn man who stabbed a dog to death in Woodside in 2017 and then failed to appear in court was arrested in April for stealing a bottle of vodka from a Woodside Avenue liquor store. Jose Tox, 27, who has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and petit larceny… Read more »
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 »