The Executive Committee of the mainstream political parties’ County Committee is very important in local politics. That Executive Committee is usually comprised of Assembly district leaders, elected county officers and members at…
A brand-new elementary school, built from the ground up, is something New Yorkers rarely see anymore. But after more than a decade on the planning boards and in construction, PS376 — for students ranging from…
Adams, Rory Lancman, Daneek Miller and Donovan RichardsTimesLedger NewspapersLast month, a front page New York Times story about the city’s marijuana possession enforcement set off alarm bells. Its headline: “Surest Way to Face…
Five people were injured in a car collision in Whitestone the morning of May 31, according to the NYPD. The on-camera incident occurred at a five-way intersection at 160th Street and Clintonville…
City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Middle Village) has been such an outspoken critic of the city’s plan to close Rikers Island and replace it with a borough-based prison system that Mayor Bill de…
The NYPD smashed a Jackson Heights-based drug gang following a long-term investigation last week. Police arrested 18 people during an early morning raid May 23, seizing cocaine, heroin, loaded guns, a machete,…
Although the cause of death was still undetermined by the city medical examiner’s office for a Flushing man, missing since May 11 and found floating in the East River on May 23,…
House Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Jackson Heights), announced a new initiative to encourage student gun safety advocates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to intern this summer on Capitol Hill…
The Physical Plant, a Queens-based dance and production company, is presenting its fifth annual Queensboro Dance Festival. Company performances have already begun and will be touring theatres, parks, plazas and streets throughout…
State Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-Fresh Meadows) hosted the sixth annual “Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month” celebration last week at her alma mater, Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, honoring Asian-American community leaders…