via EDC May 3, 2018 By Nathaly Pesantez The city has taken a significant step forward toward the development of Sunnyside Yards, formally announcing a lead consultant to form a master plan and a steering committee comprised of local leaders to help shape it. Work on the master plan will begin over the summer, the… Read more »
May 1, 2018 By Tara Law A new bill that aims to disclose where guns used in crimes were bought has been introduced in the New York senate. State Senator Michael Gianaris (D- Astoria, Long Island City) introduced a bill yesterday that would require law enforcement agencies and the state police to release public reports… Read more »
April 30, 2018 By Tara Law State Senator Michael Gianaris is calling on the MTA to extend the Q102 bus line that runs on 31st Street beyond 30th Avenue and all the way over to 20th Avenue. Gianaris wrote to MTA Bus Company President Darryl Irick Wednesday arguing that the Q102 should run all the… Read more »
April 30, 2018 By Tara Law Police are trying to catch two men who allegedly robbed a Ditmars cellphone store on April 18. The pair walked into JW Verizon Wireless Premium Retailer at 22-39 31st St. at around 12:50 p.m., police say. The men began to examine phones on display and to talk to store… Read more »
April 27, 2018 By Tara Law Mount Sinai Queens celebrated the grand opening of its new 6-story ambulatory pavilion with a ribbon cutting yesterday. Local officials and leaders of the Mount Sinai Health System gathered for a ceremony at the hospital at 25-10 30th Ave. The 6-story, 140,000 square foot pavilion offers an expanded emergency… Read more »
April 27, 2018 By Tara Law About 300 vendors and a multicultural music and dance show will take over three blocks of Steinway Street for an international festival this Sunday. Steinway Street Cultural Festival will take place between Broadway and 28th Ave. on Steinway Street from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The festival will be… Read more »
April 26, 2018 By Tara Law Danice, an affordable women’s clothing chain, is closing its 48th Street location. A Danice employee confirmed that the store, which is located at Plaza 48 at 34-56 48th St., will close. She said that the employees had been notified of the closure, but not of the closing date. Danice,… Read more »
April 25, 2018 By Tara Law A progressive Democrat is running a grassroots campaign to “end” Joseph Crowley’s 19-year tenure in congress. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old resident of Parkchester in the Bronx, is working full-time to replace Crowley as the Democrat representing the 14th congressional district, which covers north west Queens and a southern portion… Read more »
April 25, 2018 By Tara Law Residents voted to spend $250,000 on road repairs and install a new STEM lab at a local school, along with two other projects, when they went to the polls last month to determine how $1 million of city capital should be spent in the district through a process called… Read more »
April 23, 2018 By Tara Law The creators of trendy cookie shop Chip will expand across western Queens this spring with the opening of an ice cream shop in Astoria in May and a new Chip cookie shop location in Long Island City in June. Chip Ice Cream will specialize in ice cream blended with… Read more »