Sept. 23, Staff Report
A big block party will be taking place on Skillman Avenue this Saturday that is being organized by two of Sunnyside’s leading business groups.
The event, dubbed “The Skillman Avenue Fall Festival,” will take place on Saturday,…
Sept. 22, By Michael Florio
A Sunnyside resident who owns a music store in Corona has been charged for selling pirated music, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.
Evaristo Cruz, owner of Poblanos Record Corp., located at 95-10 Roosevelt Ave,…
Sept. 21, Staff Report
Massis International Foods, located at 42-20 43rd Ave, is officially closing Friday.
The owner of the store—which offers a variety of Turkish, Armenian and Romanian goods—said he plans to close at the end of the week and that everything is ½ price until then.…
Sept. 21, By Christian Murray
OT, the Greek restaurant located at 39-31 Queens Blvd, was temporarily shut down by the Health Dept. on Thursday.
The department claimed that there was evidence of mice, and that there were fruit flies on the premises. …
Sept. 21, By Jackie Strawbridge
Pesticide-spraying trucks will return to a number of western Queens neighborhoods this evening as the Health Dept. aims to deplete the mosquito population to combat West Nile disease.
Spraying will begin at 8:30 p.m.…
Opinion:
September 20,
By Melissa Orlando, founder of Access Queens/7 Train Blues.
The 2015 State of the Subways Report Card is out and riders in Queens are confused. For the second year in a row,…
Sept. 20, By Christian Murray
A Mexican restaurant will be opening on the corner of 47th Street and Greenpoint Avenue where Bliss Street Station had been located for more than 25 years.
The restaurant, called Chihuahuh, is expected to open at the 47-02 Greenpoint Ave.…
Sept. 17, By Christian Murray
The NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign today issued its 17th annual “State of the Subways” Report Card, and rated the 7 as the best of 19 subway lines.
The 7 was ranked number one for the eighth time that Straphangers has been putting out the reports.…
Sept. 16, By Jackie Strawbridge
Back to school means back to the store, for hours-long trips in search of folders, glue sticks, marble notebooks and everything else on parents’ annual classroom supply lists.
For many parents and educators, lengthy school supply lists have long represented a necessary evil in resource-strapped schools.…
Sept. 16, Staff Report
A man broke into Woodside Laundromat Tuesday, grabbed $20 cash and then brandished a knife when the owner went to confront him, police said.
The suspect pried open the front door at Lung Fai Laundromat,…