Nov. 30, 2023 By Bill Parry Students from the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School in Astoria and the arts education nonprofit Exploring the Arts (ETA) are teaming up to honor the memory of their founder, the legendary crooner and Astoria native Tony Bennett, who died in July at age 96. In tribute… Read more »
Nov. 28, 2023 By Bill Parry Four months after they were banished from Corona Plaza, street vendors will return under a new plan announced by Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The first-ever regulated community vending area at Corona Plaza will include an initial group of 14 street vendors —10 of them serving food… Read more »
Nov. 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Council Member Julie Won and representatives of Hester Street, a community development nonprofit, hosted a town hall meeting in Astoria on Nov. 16 to kickoff a community-driven planning process for the Northern Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue Study. More than 100 residents from Sunnyside, Woodside and Astoria shared their input… Read more »
Nov. 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Once known as the commercial beating heart of Astoria, the slow decline of the Steinway Street business corridor began a half century ago with the opening of the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst. Shoppers migrated to the borough’s largest mall and Steinway Street storefront businesses bore the brunt of… Read more »
Nov. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry A man was beaten and robbed on board an E train in Jackson Heights on Sunday night, according to the NYPD. Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a man who approached the 49-year-old victim as he was riding in a southbound… Read more »
Nov. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry Loved ones of recent Astoria victims of traffic violence joined Families for Safe Streets members, elected officials and safe street advocates from Transportation Alternatives to mark World Day of Remembrance 2023 at a rally in Astoria Park on Sunday, Nov. 19. Speakers called on the city and Albany to… Read more »
Nov. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Sunnyside man was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 18, and charged with multiple counts of reckless endangerment after he allegedly smashed his car into an urgent care facility on Greenpoint Avenue, injuring 14 people who were waiting inside a waiting room, according to authorities. Police from the 108th Precinct… Read more »
Nov. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria and Public Service Area 9 are looking for two men who are allegedly targeting seniors at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. The first incident was reported on the night of Sunday, Nov. 5, when a 64-year-old man was walking in… Read more »
Nov. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry Queens Together, the restaurant-driven food relief organization that mobilized during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to assist thousands of families, will hold its third annual Thanksgiving food distribution event at Culture Lab LIC on Saturday, Nov. 18. Queens Together is bringing together more than a hundred volunteers… Read more »
Nov. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry A Court Square couple was robbed at gunpoint during a home invasion by two men posing as delivery men last week, according to authorities. Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for the duo who rang the doorbell of a residence in the vicinity of… Read more »