March 29, 2023 By Bill Parry Several firefighters were injured while battling a three-alarm fire in a one-story commercial building in Astoria on Wednesday morning, according to the FDNY. One firefighter was seriously injured and another five firefighters suffered minor injuries battling the fire that tore through the Lion-Aire warehouse at 34-38 31st St., beneath… Read more »
March 28, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn woman was criminally charged with murder in the killing of a Dutch Kills resident at the Queensbridge Houses in 2021, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on March 28. Tandika Wright, 35, of Mother Gaston Boulevard in Ocean Hill, was arraigned March 26 before Queens Criminal Court… Read more »
March 28, 2023 By Bill Parry An Astoria businessman is facing two decades in prison after admitting he targeted the Bengali community of Queens in a real estate scam that bilked them out of nearly a million dollars over three years. Rashidun Bokhari, 57, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday to wire fraud from… Read more »
March 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Long Island City-based tech startup Datalogz announced it raised $2.3 million in seed funding after successful pilots with Fortune 500 companies. Datalogz is a Business Intelligence Ops platform that aims to end analytics sprawl. Companies today have an ever-growing pile of reports on data and while the abundance provides… Read more »
March 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Through the New York Entertainment Workforce Diversity Grant Program, LaGuardia Community College is receiving a $205,000 grant to recruit, hire, promote, develop, and train a diverse and inclusive workforce for New York’s motion picture and television industry. With its campus in Long Island City, LaGuardia Community College is just a… Read more »
Tuesday, March 21 By Bill Parry New York’s hometown airline has a disgruntled faction among its hometown workforce. Over 100 JetBlue flight attendants and members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 579 rallied outside the air carrier’s Long Island City corporate headquarters Monday. During an informational picket, flight attendants called on JetBlue to provide… Read more »
March 10, 2023 By Bill Parry A car service driver was robbed at knifepoint near the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City last week, and police from the 108th Precinct are looking for four men who remain at large. In the early morning of Friday, March 3, the 41-year-old Lyt driver picked up two men… Read more »
Nieves, with his wife Betty, as Gianaris inducted him into the Senate Veteran Hall of Fame in June. (Courtesy of Gianris’ office) March 10, 2023 By Bill Parry With Vietnam veterans dying off at a rate of nearly 400 a day nationwide, and many of them dying alone, state Senator Michael Gianaris announced Friday, March… Read more »
March 7, 2023 By Bill Parry The new net-zero energy clubhouse for the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens in Astoria will include a Teen Academy funded by a $1.5 million contribution from Attentive Energy One, a joint venture between Rise Light & Power and TotalEnergies as part of its proposal to the New York… Read more »