“Wednesday & Sunday is the Farmer’s Market,” told me residents of Tripoli, in Arcadia. Regional loyalty is strong. More...

Marge Markey, a 22-year, highly ranked leader in the Assembly, as well as a local political and community leader in her Maspeth district, was soundly defeated in yesterday’s Democratic primary by a relative newcomer from the neighboring Woodside area More...

Assemblywoman Margaret Markey reported on September 7 that the City of New York has agreed to delay its plan to open a homeless shelter on October 1st in Maspeth. More...

It was the Eleventh of September, fifteen years ago, a day which we will always remember. For America was attacked brutally by the evil of the terrorist hand, as devastation, death destruction and fear  invaded our precious homela More...

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Police arrested two Queens teenagers on September 7, after they broke into a Long Island City school and scrawled swastikas on walls and doors.Cops said Edgardo Vicario, 18, and Salah Abdelfattah, 19, broke into the High School of Applied Communicati More...

A recent, dramatic increase in whooping cough cases in Queens and other parts of New York City has officials urging infant and toddler caretakers to get a whooping cough vaccination.There have been no fatalities in the recent outbreak but whooping co More...

More than 60 firefighters from 12 units battled a blaze at an Astoria Laundromat on September 5.Firefighters were called to the “All Hands” blaze at the Old Friends Laundromat on Broadway ear 35th Street at about 5 a.m. More...

As the fifteenth anniversary of the World Trade Center disaster nears, the Health Department announced new findings on the health impacts on rescue and recovery workers and civilians exposed to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. More...

      Every nation is buying real estate in Athens. They want a piece of the pie desperately.  “A dream among splendid ruins…Strolling through the Athens of Travelers, 17th-19th century” tries to explain this fascination. More...

The motto of this year’s September 11th ceremony was “Fifteen Years of Tears.”  And so it was as more than 300 came to McManus Memorial Park on 81st Street and the Grand Central Parkway service road in Astoria Heights for a can More...