Apr. 21, 2023 By Julia Moro Ridgewood Savings Bank (RSB) will be doing its part this Earth Day, April 22, by growing its eco-conscious “Free Green Checking” product, which has resulted in 1,800 trees being planted across America by the global reforestation organization, One Tree Planted. Free Green Checking is what RSB calls a thoroughly…
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Apr. 21, 2023 By Bill Parry New York City Football Club (NYCFC) is moving forward with its plan to build a $780 million, privately-financed, state-of-the-art 25,000-seat soccer stadium at Willets Point. The 2021 Major League Soccer champions have selected HOK as the architect and Turner Construction Company as the general contractor to design and build…
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Apr. 21, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The newly renovated Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC) at Queensborough Community College reopened for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on April 15. The first performance to be held in the theater since renovations began just before the start of the pandemic was the Bronx…
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Apr. 21, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb Cops from the 112th Precinct and 20th Transit District are looking for the woman who doused an MTA employee in the face with an unknown substance that caused burning and irritation to his face after being involved in a dispute at the 75th Avenue subway station in Forest Hills…
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Apr. 21, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb Police from the 113th Precinct are searching for the creep who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl on a Q77 MTA bus near the border of St. Albans and Cambria Heights earlier this month. Police say that the unknown suspect, believed to be in his early 50s, approached the girl…
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Apr. 20, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller
New York City will begin taking its carbon emissions targets into account as part of the budget process and launch a program to subsidize solar panel installations for up to 3,000 low-income homes as part of a new long term climate plan Mayor Eric Adams’ office released on Thursday.
Apr. 20, 2023 By Ethan Marshall Bayside’s Anchor Inn is reportedly among the motels in New York City currently being used to house migrants and Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino released a statement criticizing the arrangement. Paladino, on April 14, said her office did not get word about this happening until less than eight hours before…
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Apr. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn man on April 19 was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a 2021 bloody shooting at a Howard Beach motel, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Rawle Washington, 28, of Scholes Street in South, was convicted by a jury at Queens Supreme Court last month…
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Apr. 20, 2023 Elijah Hamilton The NYPD’s 104th Precinct updated residents of Glendale, Maspeth, Middle Village and Ridgewood with its most recent crime stats during Tuesday night’s Community Council meeting held at St. Margaret Roman Catholic Church in Middle Village. According to Officer Kevin Moran, within the past 28 days, crime is up by 1.8…
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Apr. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man admitted to threatening a Long Island Rail Road conductor after failing to produce a ticket on his way home from Brooklyn in August and brandishing a knife when confronted by a number of transit workers, causing injuries to two of them, according to Queens District Attorney…
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