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Council Member Won co-chairs hearing investigating New York school bus inefficiency

Council Members Rita Joseph and Julie Won at Monday's oversight hearing. Photo: Gerardo Romo / NYC Council Media Unit

Oct. 4, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 4, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Queens Council Member Julie Won co-chaired a joint oversight hearing on Monday exploring how to improve school transportation services, which suffered from a cumulative 80,312 delays during the 2023/24 academic year. Won, the chair of the New York City Council’s Committee on Contracts, and… Read more »

Tech-driven dental studio Tend opens in Long Island City

Exterior of the Tend LIC dental studio. Photo: Tend.

Oct. 3, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 3, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Tend, a new-era dental company seeking to reinvent a dentist’s office using technology, has opened a new location in Long Island City. Tend LIC opened its doors at 10-64 Jackson Ave. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, becoming the 13th Tend location in New York City… Read more »

Astoria-born Chip City Cookies to launch limited-edition Pop-Tarts cookie

Oct. 3, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Chip City Cookies, the rapidly expanding cookie chain originally founded in Astoria, has announced a new collaboration with Kellanova’s iconic Pop-Tarts brand. The two companies are introducing a limited-edition “Strawberry Poppable Pop-Tarts® Cookie,” available for a select period in October and November across Chip City’s 40-plus locations. The cookie, inspired… Read more »

Service held in Astoria’s Chappetto Memorial Park honoring WW ll Vet

Sept. 30, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Thursday, Sept. 26, marked the 75th anniversary of the naming of Chappetto Memorial Park in Astoria and the 80th anniversary of the death of the World War ll veteran it was named after.  Members of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn gathered at the greenspace on the corner of Hoyt… Read more »

DOI probes NYC Sheriff’s office; Miranda denies reports of raid at LIC headquarters

Sep. 27, 2024 By bparry

[caption id="attachment_81586" align="aligncenter" width="700"] NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda angrily denies his Long Island City offices were searched as part of a probe by the city’s Department of Investigations. Photo by Todd Maisel[/caption]
Sept. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry