By Bill Parry The FDNY honored fallen EMS Captain Alison Russo Wednesday with a plaque dedication ceremony at Station 49 in Astoria, where she was stationed just over a year ago when she was stabbed to death in a random attack. Hundreds of firefighters and EMS personnel joined FDNY brass inside Station 49 to pay… Read more »
Oct. 4, 2023 By Bill Parry The Canadian hydroelectric company that is constructing a $6 billion clean energy transmission line to a converter station in Astoria is also building a strong bond with the western Queens community. During a visit to a school near the Astoria Houses last winter, Hydro-Quebec Energy Services COO Serge Abergel… Read more »
Oct. 2, 2023 By Bill Parry Long Island City Partnership (LICP) announced the return of the LIC Summit on Oct. 17 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Now in its ninth iteration, the Summit will bring together thought leaders from diverse sectors and feature enlightening panels highlighting Long Island City’s reputation as… Read more »
Oct. 2, 2023 By Bill Parry Visitors to the Long Island City waterfront this fall have a new sculpture garden to explore thanks to a collaboration between Culture Lab LIC and developer TF Cornerstone, which played such a major role in reshaping the Queens skyline along the East River during the past decade. Culture Lab… Read more »
Sept. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry As Climate Week NYC drew to a close, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) announced it is partnering with Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens in Astoria to expand its Sky Farm LIC atop the Standard Motor building in Long Island City. NYPA will contract a landscape architect… Read more »
Sept. 25, 2023 By Bill Parry In the race to unseat embattled Assemblyman Juan Ardila, the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed Ridgewood’s Claire Valdez over Democratic Party district leader Émilia Decaudin, who announced she was suspending her campaign. The DSA electoral working group decisively voted to recommend the… Read more »
Sept. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry The man who joked that he went from the big house to the White House when he was honored as a 2014 Champion for Change by President Barack Obama is taking over the leadership of The Fortune Society, the Long Island City-based nonprofit that helps the formerly incarcerated reenter… Read more »
Sept. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry Sunnyside Community Services hosted a special celebration for the newest centenarian in the neighborhood on Friday, Sept. 15. Teresa Forlini was the guest of honor and her birthday party in the center’s community space was filled with friends and family, along with staff members and administrators from the nonprofit… Read more »
Sept. 18, 2023 By Bill Parry The level of carnage on Astoria streets has become so alarming, that it was standing room only at a Department of Transportation workshop, with more than 200 in attendance at the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens on Thursday, Sept. 14. Western Queens elected leaders organized the event… Read more »
Sept. 13, 2023 By Bill Parry A delivery worker was shot during a road rage incident on a residential stretch of Steinway Street in Astoria on Tuesday evening and the gunman and his two associates behind the shooting remain at large, according to the NYPD. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria report that the… Read more »