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…
“Where are the artists writing with any real sense of angst and purpose? There are no movements at the moment: we had mod and then there was punk, but it’s so hard…
Bernard “Ben” Thompson, a St. Albans war veteran, served as a Weapons Specialist-Heavy Ordinance for the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and was honored for his duty by state Sen.…
The House passed U.S. Rep. Grace Meng’s (D-Flushing) several measures to be added to the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides assistance to members of the U.S. military, as the nation observed…
It only took a jury 11 minutes of deliberation to find Steven Torres guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 69-year-old man under an elevated Elmhurst train station on Sept.…
Several elected officials in Queens reached out to District Attorney Richard Brown in a letter last week in hopes that he would follow in the footsteps of the Manhattan and Brooklyn districts…
Flushing Town Hall has been awarded a $10,000 grant by the Keith Haring Foundation to support Global Arts for Global Kids, an arts education public program. “Flushing Town Hall is deeply grateful…
Walter Ware, 46, a Brooklyn man was charged in the Baisley Park murder of Raymond Rue of South Jamaica last week. Ware has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a…
Officials at LaGuardia Community College have been pressing the city for safety improvements along a dangerous three-way intersection in front of their Long Island City campus where a 16-year-old high school student…