LONG ISLAND CITY – This summer, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will get a taste of Queens, in the form of LIC’s Cake and Shake, serving all-organic cupcakes, milkshakes and premium coffee from a solar-powered cart parked outside the museum. “The Met is a global destination,” says co-owner Gina Ojile. “People come...
For residents of Astoria concerned about the recent spate of crime in the area, the 114th Precinct had a reassuring message on Tuesday — “Don’t worry. Everything is under control.” At a packed community council meeting on Tuesday, deputy inspector Paul Vorbeck of the 114th Precinct and his colleagues briefed the community on steps...
Sixty-three-year-old Mary Peters was just looking forward to a quiet Easter weekend with her son and two grandchildren. But on April 3, that feeling was shortlived as a bullet whizzed into her first floor apartment in Latimer Gardens, a city-owned housing development in Flushing. The bullet shattered her kitchen’s upper window and narrowly missed...
Residents of Norwood Gardens in Astoria have been advised to keep a close check on their cars and GPS, after a rash of auto break-ins has made them nervous about leaving anything valuable in their cars. Residents report that areas around 35th, 36th and 37th streets at 30th Avenue have been the worst affected,...
The Enemy Is Everywhere “From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in...
Angry straphangers and elected officials gathered at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Flushing on Tuesday for the borough’s public hearing on plans for massive service cuts intended to close the MTA’s $750 million budget deficit. In Queens, the MTA proposed not just eliminating the W subway line and numerous bus routes, but also...
Despite the urging of District 3’s Community Education Council, the Department of Education said it was not possible to increase the number of grades at P.S. 452, a new school slated to open in the I.S. 44 building on West 77th Street in fall 2010. The department is planning to start three kindergarten classes...
If you have ever taken a cab in New York City, chances are you have seen advertisements for Bid on the City, a real estate service that lets you bid on high-end commercial and residential properties in New York City. If the owner accepts your bid on a property, which is typically worth hundreds...
Is Jackson Heights getting a new chat house? The answer, my friend, is YES. And as The Village Voice points out, it looks like a “multi-culti” sorts. Why do we think so? Because the new awning for “Ambala Sweet and Bakery Chat House” has almost every nation in South Asia listed.
When Tanya Delucca and her 16-year-old daughter, Michelle, went to St. Paul’s Church in Corona on Feb. 4, they were going not to pray, but to protest. The Deluccas were one of hundreds of families in LeFrak City whose rents increased more than $10 per room per month, starting this month — and many...