Aug. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry An on-duty MTA conductor was attacked while on board her northbound R train at the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station on July 30. Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills and Transit District 20 are searching for the Crocs-wearing assailant who was standing on the platform as the…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry St. John’s University will host the Queens Symphony next week as the 23rd annual Great Lawn Summer Concert returns to the Hillcrest campus on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Now celebrating its 70th year as the borough’s only professional orchestra and the oldest and largest professional arts organization in Queens, the…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By Julia Moro Queens is showing consistent growth in new reports documenting the most popular cities for renters, according to RentCafe. In July’s renal activity report, Arlington, Virginia was found the be the most popular among renters. However, the Bronx climbed five positions in the rankings to #9, and Queens went up…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By Michael Dorgan More than 150 concerned western Queens residents attended a town hall event in Sunnyside on Wednesday, July 26, to learn about a new climate law that is likely to impose hefty costs on the owners of older co-op and condo buildings — and how to rally against its…
Aug. 1, 2023 By John Schilling Elected officials gathered with hospital executives and team members in Far Rockaway last week for a street naming ceremony in honor of St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the peninsula’s lone hospital that has served the community for the last 118 years. The hospital, which first opened as St. Joseph’s Hospital…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry The late matriarch of a Queens political dynasty was honored Sunday, July 30, during a street co-naming celebration in Fresh Meadows. State and city officials gathered at the northeast corner of 192nd Street and 67th Avenue to unveil Sylvia Weprin Way, just around the corner from Saul Weprin Street,…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By Mayor Eric Adams Last week, we announced our plan to take down unsightly sidewalk sheds and reclaim our streets. Sidewalk sheds — which many New Yorkers also known as scaffolding — are the ugly green and metal boxes that cover our sidewalks. They block the sunlight, keep pedestrians away from businesses,…
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Aug. 1, 2023 By John Schilling New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie visited Far Rockaway on Friday, July 28, for a tour of Bayswater Point State Park and the nearby shoreline of Jamaica Bay. The invitation to tour the park came from South Queens Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato in an effort to show Heastie…
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Jul. 31, 2023 By Julia Moro Trucks will be going through parts of Queens on the evening of Aug. 3 to spray adulticide in an attempt to reduce the risk of West Nile virus in the borough. According to the Health Department, beginning on Thursday, Aug. 3, between the hour of 8:30 p.m. and 6…
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Jul. 31, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed As she continues to work on keeping the streets safe and walkable for Flushing residents, Councilwoman Sandra Ung recently announced that the 109th Precinct and the city Department of Sanitation (DSNY) enforced regulations against CJ Supermarket for illegally occupying sidewalk space along Main Street and 41st Avenue. CJ Supermarket’s…
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