September 15, by Nathaly Pesantez
Sunnyside Gardens Park will be hosting an evening of live music and vintage film screenings for its seventh annual “Flicks & Jazz in the Garden” this Saturday.
The Sept. 16 event will begin at 5:00 pm at the park with arts and crafts activities for families.…
September 14, by Nathaly Pesantez
The Sunnyside Shorts Film Festival has returned and its organizers will be screening films for all ages in an event next week.
The one-day festival will feature 11 films for adults and nine films for children on Sept.…
September 13, by Nathaly Pesantez
Sunnyside just got a pop of color with the addition of a new mural in the neighborhood.
“All You Need Is Love” reads the large lettering splashed with bright tie-dye-like colors on the wall between EZ Pawn Corp.…
September 13, By Christian Murray
Crime has plummeted in the 108 Police Precinct this year, even more so than the significant decline citywide.
There were no murders within the confines of the 108 Precinct–which covers Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City–for the year through September 3,…
September 12, By Tara Law
A Neapolitan-style pizzeria has opened in Sunnyside that is owned and operated by the proprietors of SoleLuna.
The pizzeria is called Sotto le Stelle, “under the stars” in Italian. It serves wood fired pizza and panini at 44-07 Queens Boulevard,…
September 11, by Nathaly Pesantez
Lily Gavin, the longtime Sunnyside community figure who passed away last year, will have a block-long section of Queens Boulevard co-named in her honor later this month.
A street sign bearing “Lily Gavin Way” will be unveiled in a ceremony on 40th Street and Queens Boulevard,…
September 11, by Nathaly Pesantez
A street at the border of Woodside and Astoria has been co-named in honor of a longtime FDNY firefighter and Vietnam veteran who died earlier this year of a 9/11-related cancer.
In an afternoon ceremony on Sept.…
September 8, By Tara Law
A new traffic light has gone up at the intersection of 43rd Avenue and 47th Street, in response to complaints about reckless drivers speeding down 43rd Avenue putting pedestrians at risk.
The intersection is just a block away from Little Friends Pre-K,…
Sept. 8, by Nathaly Pesantez
Neal Milano, the infamous Sunnyside condo manager who was in Queens County Criminal Court today following his arrest Sunday for stalking and harassment, told the Sunnyside Post
outside the courthouse that he was “being persecuted” and was never the property manager of the Sunnyside building.…
September 8, By Christian Murray
A Woodside man who exported specialty metals to Iran–in violation of a US trade ban—was sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
Erdal Kuyumcu, a 45-year-old US citizen and CEO of the Woodside-based Global Metallurgy,…