Apr. 15, 2024 By czarinnaandres Apr. 15, 2024 Sponsored Post Organizers of the LIC Waterfront 5K Run/Walk are encouraging people to sign up for this year’s event before Apr. 22 to take advantage of a $5 discount. The ninth-annual Waterfront 5K event takes place on June 1, 2024, and is organized by Hunters Point Park… Read more »
Apr. 11, 2024 By admin Apr. 11, 2024 By Seán Ó Briain Citizens Bank announced a series of new initiatives to support a range of community programs in Queens over the summer, becoming the first-ever title sponsor of the Queens 10K. The event, organized by New York Road Runners, is part of the organization’s Five-Borough… Read more »
Apr. 8, 2024 By admin Apr. 8, 2024 By Seán Ó Briain The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice has launched a new interactive map detailing hazards in each neighborhood in the city in a bid to tackle environmental inequity across the five boroughs. The Environmental Justice NYC (EJNYC) Mapping Tool, the first-ever online resource… Read more »
Mar. 20, 2024 By admin Mar. 20, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Little Caesars Pizza is set to celebrate the grand opening of its brand-new Corona outlet at 108-68B Roosevelt Ave., with an irresistible offer: the first 50 customers on Thursday, Mar. 21, starting at 10 a.m., will receive free pizza for a year. Those fortunate… Read more »
Mar. 8, 2024 By admin Mar. 8, 2024 By Czarinna Andres and QNS Staff Award-winning children’s book author Jesse Byrd talked to fourth-grade students at P.S. 193Q Alfred J. Kennedy Tuesday as part of a program that helps elementary school students write their own children’s book. Byrd hosted an interactive reading of his new book… Read more »
Mar. 7, 2024 By admin
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Mar. 7, 2024 By Chris Herman
Mar. 1, 2024 By admin Feb. 29, 2024 By Rachel Butler Queens Congresswoman Grace Meng, along with a coalition of elected officials, has penned a letter to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) regarding the extended downtime of three crucial escalators at the 74th Street-Broadway subway station in Jackson Heights. These escalators have been have been… Read more »
Feb. 27, 2024 By ishkurhan Feb. 27, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan US. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hosted a town hall in Astoria last week to discuss how federal climate change policy is playing out on a local level. Five years after she laid out the Green New Deal vision with Senator Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts,… Read more »
Feb. 26, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_71999" align="alignnone" width="541"] Police are looking for this man who allegedly assaulted a woman in Jackson Heights on Saturday night[/caption]
Feb. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry
Feb. 25, 2024 By admin Feb. 25, 2024 By Czarinna Andres and QNS Staff Several non-profit groups held a town hall meeting in Woodside Wednesday evening where they advocated for the statewide right to counsel for tenants facing eviction. The event, held at the St. Sebastian’s Parish Center and called Queens United: Town Hall for… Read more »