State Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) announced last Friday that he would not participate in the Legislature’s process for appointing a new attorney general ahead of November’s general election. Acting Attorney General Barbara…
Fresh Meadows resident Yeou-Cheng Ma has been playing the violin since she was 2 years old and the piano since she was 3. Born in France of Chinese descent, she and her…
“Do you live in this area?!” some Woodside residents shouted repeatedly last week at the Community Board 2 public meeting with developer Madison Capital Realty, which is planning to construct a two-tower…
Linda McMahon, the head of the Small Business Administration, has stayed true to the organization’s promise to reinstate the LGBT Outreach page on the SBA website The restoration of the website Wednesday…
City Comptroller Scott Stringer is holding his ground after data provider AirDNA issued a cease-and-desist letter to his office claiming his report on the economic impact of the room-sharing app Airbnb improperly…
NewspapersNew York State election law recognizes two committees as representing a political party: the County Committee and the State Committee. Here in Queens and adjoining counties, we have a number of political clubs,…
NewspapersIn celebration of National Pet Month, Council members Eric Ulrich (R-Ozone Park) and Robert Holden (R-Maspeth) will be hosting a mobile pet adoption event with Animal Care Centers of NYC this Saturday. “As…
NewspapersWell, that was fast. All of the euphoria from the Mets’ red-hot start to the season has vanished, as the club has dropped from first place to fourth in the surprisingly competitive National…
Sadly, fables have become an almost forgotten genre of reading, what with the plethora of modern-day children’s books written for a new generation of precocious kids. But now, some of those wonderful,…
Howard Kwait, the principal of John Bowne High School in Flushing, has been reassigned by the new chancellor after four lawsuits were filed and settled against the school administrator accusing him of…