August 3, By Christian Murray
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer and a number of transportation-safety advocates are calling on the police to stop car dealerships from parking their vehicles on the sidewalk along Northern Boulevard.
The cars are a danger to pedestrians,…
August 1, By Christian Murray
A number of Park Enforcement Patrol officers turned up at Lou Lodati Park Saturday and told a number of soccer players that they shouldn’t be playing in the popular Sunnyside park.
The officers said that the soccer players did not have a permit and were therefore not allowed to play an organized game there.…
July 31, By Michael Florio
The newest rock-climbing center in LIC will soon be opening.
Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge, a massive rock climbing facility located inside a residential building at 23-10 41st Ave, is expected to open by the end of August.…
July 31, By Christian Murray
There will be plenty of arts, crafts and music on display under the Sunnyside Arch this Saturday and the next.
Sunnyside Shines, which oversees the Business Improvement District, will be hosting two events– a children’s fair on Saturday,…
July 30, By Jackie Strawbridge
Shakespeare will travel across Western Queens for the next two weeks, courtesy of the Borough-based Hip to Hip Theatre Company.
Starting Friday evening, productions of “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor” will make stops in Sunnyside,…
July 29, By Christian Murray
A Skillman Avenue medical office that focused on selling nutritional supplements closed last week.
The Sunnyside Nutritional Center, located at 45-10 Skillman Ave., opened in August 2013 offering Swedish, deep tissue and Shiatsus therapeutic massages.…
July 29, By Jackie Strawbridge
The City’s smallest stores would be required to keep their doors shut while running an air conditioner if a local Councilman’s bill becomes law.
Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria) introduced a bill last week that would prohibit stores smaller than 4,000 square feet from keeping their doors open while air conditioning is running.…
July 27, By Christian Murray
The largest residential development to come to Sunnyside in recent years is expected to be completed by the end of August and the 38 rent units contained within it will soon be hitting the market.…
July 26, By John O’Reilly (columnist)
Mayor Bill de Blasio came out as pro-life this week.
Pro “Boulevard of Life” that is. This creepy, progressive sounding label is attached to the $100 million rechristening of the Boulevard of Death,…
July 23, By Michael Florio
Construction work has begun on the ‘Boulevard of Death’ that advocates say will help keep pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists safe.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning that the Department of Transportation (DOT) started work Monday on its $101 million Vision Zero project to improve safety conditions on a 7-mile stretch of Queens Boulevard that goes from Roosevelt to Jamaica Ave.…