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Feb. 11, 2025 By Jeff Yapalater

JetBlue, New York City’s hometown airline, kicked off its 25th-anniversary celebrations at JFK International Airport today, marking a quarter-century since its inaugural flight took off on Feb. 11, 2000.

Feb. 11, 2025 By Paulina Albarracin

Looking for a sign to take the next big step? Thinking about marriage? Well, this is it—your sign!

Feb. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry

Residents of the Gotham Point development in the Hunters Point South section of Long Island City are on edge after a woman was found dead inside an apartment in the South Tower on Monday afternoon.

Feb. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Renowned music and entertainment publication Billboard has named Queens’ Forest Hills Stadium as the best amphitheater on the East Coast in a new racking of the best music venues for 2025.

Feb. 11, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

In response to rising rates of antisemitism and discrimination on college campuses, a group of New York state legislators introduced a new package of bills on Monday aimed at protecting students from harassment and bias.

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Feb. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien 

Long before it was one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in the nation, Long Island City was an industrial town along the polluted East River, where generations recall the only good smell emanated from the Gordon Baking Company producing the Silvercup brand of bread.

After it was shuttered in a bitter labor dispute in the mid-70s, nearby factory owner Harry Suna of Kew Gardens purchased the property at 42-25 21 St. in 1980, and his architect sons Stuart and Alan began drawing up the plans to repurpose the property into Silvercup Studios, which launched in 1983 and rapidly became one of New York City’s largest film and production facilities, with nearly a half million square feet of studio space and 19 sound stages.

Feb. 11, 2025 By Tangerine Clarke

Black History on Feb. 8 received exceptional recognition and contributions from youths, thanks to the Queens Book Fair & Literary Festival Inc. founder, Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, an educator and uplifting leader, who celebrated the initiative’s seventh installment in the auditorium of the Richmond Hill Queens library.

A disbarred Flushing-based attorney was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court last week to four-and-a-half years in prison for defrauding his real estate clients in the Korean-American community out of millions of dollars.

Hyun W. Lee, 51, also known as “Michael Lee,” of Closter, in Bergen County, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1 to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud his real estate clients and their counterparties of funds held in his attorney escrow account.

Feb. 11, 2025 by Shane O’Brien

Sunnyside Shines and Woodside on the Move will host the inaugural “Restaurant Week of the Sides” starting this Sunday, celebrating a diverse range of culinary options in both neighborhoods situated along the 7 line.