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Government
Queens lawmakers fighting for mixed-martial arts bill
The Queens state Assembly delegation is set to weigh in on a mixed-martial arts bill that passed the state Senate last week, although three of the borough’s lawmakers have already co-sponsored similar legislation in the past. Comment.
Bay Terrace
Some condos, co-ops cut off from tax relief
After recently celebrating the state’s commitment to securing a partial tax abatement plan for co-op and condominium owners, Bay Terrace’s Warren Schreiber said he was disappointed to see the city potentially complicating the process. Comment.
Fresh Meadows
Surgeon in Fresh Meadows named in top doctors guide
Dr. Geoffrey Westrich, an orthopedic surgeon who practices in Fresh Meadows, has seen many patients in his life, but one that stands out is a Queens man who was confined to a wheelchair because his hip arthritis was so severe. Comment.
Transit
MTA sees ridership increase in 2012 despite Sandy
Although Hurricane Sandy forced a shutdown of the New York City transit system and caused monumental damage, the number of riders using subways, railroads and buses increased by more than 0.5 percent last year, including the highest number of weekend subway riders since 1946. Comment.
Astoria
Two women swiped wallets from Woodside shoppers: NYPD
ASTORIA — The NYPD was looking for the public’s help in finding two women wanted in connection to three thefts, police said. Comment.
Rego Park
Rego Park salon window smashed before burglary: NYPD
REGO PARK — Police were looking for help finding a suspect wanted in connection to a burglary in Rego Park, the NYPD said. Comment.
Bayside
Bravest battle blaze in Bayside building
BAYSIDE — Firefighters responded to call of a suspicious fire near the corner of 223rd Street and 38th Avenue around 2:30 a.m. Monday, the Breaking News Network reported. Comment.
Block Shots
Enigmatic St. John’s falls short of its potential
This St. John’s team has given you as much hope and thrills as it has heart attacks and reasons to shake your head this season. Comments (1).
Douglaston
City planned bridge to fill in boro’s Alley Pond in 1955
It was March 1955 when the city announced plans to inject 250,000 tots with the polio vaccine. The city public health commissioner explained that the effort to eradicate polio would involve all first- and second-grade school kids. Comment.
Editorial
Innocent Until ICE Gets You
The City Council has passed legislation that would stop the city Department of Correction from handing over undocumented immigrants to U.S. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement if they are youthful offenders, do not have significant criminal records, have been accused of low-level offenses or have been convicted of some types of misdemeanor offenses. Comment.
Letters
No. 7 should service St. Pat’s parade
We are writing to request that the MTA reinstate No. 7 train service between Queensboro Plaza and Times Square March 16. Comment.
Astoria
Dolphin seen swimming near Astoria
A bottlenose dolphin has been sighted swimming in the East River since Wednesday, but Friday marked the first time the marine mammal came to Queens. Comment.
Queensbridge
Four Queens subway lines to close at night for maintenance
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will introduce its Fastrack, subway maintenance service to Queens for the first time Monday. Comment.
Oakland Gardens
QM3 bus kills pedestrian
The heartbroken husband of a woman crushed by an MTA bus in Oakland Gardens last week is pleading for witnesses to the incident to come forward so he can understand the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death. Comment.
Rockaway Park
Bike and boat stations planned for Jamaica Bay
Another wave of revitalization is coming to the Rockaways as the city and federal government seek proposals to install new amenities for visitors and residents of the seaside land. Comment.
Glen Oaks
Grant money renews push for FEMA co-op equality
Queens welcomed the news that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development would include co-op and condominium owners in its housing grants for Hurricane Sandy relief, but U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-Hauppauge) said there was still more to be done. Comments (1).
East Elmhurst
Beep hopefuls tout endorsments
The endorsements are rolling in for candidates hoping to take the place of Queens Borough President Helen Marshall after this year’s elections. Comment.
Jamaica Hills
Queens Center for Progress worried about proposed cuts
A Jamaica Hills nonprofit dedicated to helping people with developmental disabilities is worried it may have to lay off some of its staff and scale back its programs if cuts Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed in his budget go into effect. Comments (1).
Astoria
Astoria rallies to save historic house
A diverse group of Astoria historians, elected officials, business leaders and artists have banded together to try to buy the Steinway Mansion and turn it into a museum. Comment.
Middle Village
MidVil weigh city repairs
Residents in Middle Village brought two specific concerns to the floor at a monthly community meeting this week. Comment.
Kew Gardens
Queens authorities nab seven suspects in fraud ring
Seven people were arrested last week in connection with a tax fraud ring partially operating in Queens who are suspected of stealing more than $500,000 from the federal government, the Queens district attorney said last week. Comment.
Flushing
Flushing group preps for another season of fresh produce
When it comes to buying fresh produce, there is more to it than just saving green, Flushing’s John Choe said. Comment.
Forest Hills
GCP drunk driver gets up to 7 years in prison
The boozed-up driver who killed a highway worker on the Grand Central Parkway early one morning last year will spend at least 28 months in prison after he was sentenced Tuesday, the Queens district attorney said. Comment.
Hollis
Suspect sought in in two armed robberies of bodegas in SE Queens
HOLLIS — Police were asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect wanted in connection to two robberies in southeast Queens. Comment.
Transit
Subway stations remain quite clean for two years
Subway stations are getting cleaner with fewer overflowing garbage containers, less peeling paint and fewer rats, according to the Straphangers Campaign. Comment.
Molloy’s playoff run ends in loss to Ford
The horn blew and Amani Tatum slumped over, hands at her knees, head down. The Archbishop Molloy senior guard had fouled out of her final high school game with her team seconds away from ending its season. Comment.
Middle Village
CK season comes to close with loss to Moore
Christ the King lost one of its best players to injury before seeing its season slip away. Comment.
Briarwood
Legendary Molloy Coach Jack Curran dies after 55 years of leading the Stanners
Legendary Archbishop Molloy coach Jack Curran died early Thursday morning at his home in Rye, N.Y., Athletic director Mike McCleary said. He was 82. Comment.
Bayside
NE Qns hails soda ruling
Soon after a judge struck down the so-called soda ban Monday — just a day before the new rule was expected to go into effect — some in Queens’s restaurant community said they supported the court’s decision and railed against the ban. Comments (4).
Flushing
Flushing Commons to start in fall
Civic leaders reacted with skepticism after the city announced Tuesday that Flushing Commons will be built in two phases beginning this fall. Comments (1).
Flushing
USTA plan gets off to a shaky start at CBs
Community boards voted this week on the United States Tennis Center’s proposal to expand its footprint in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and attempted to put their mark on the possible end result, while a lawmaker with legislative power has demanded the lost parkland be replaced. Comments (1).
Whitestone
Halloran says mayor twisted snow plot claims
In an attempt to set the record straight as he runs for re-election to a second term, City Councilman Dan Halloran (R-Whitestone) has blamed Mayor Michael Bloomberg for distorting his claims about a Sanitation Department slowdown in the aftermath of the 2010 blizzard. Comments (1).
Cambria Heights
Ed panel OKs schools inside of Flushing HS
It was just after 1 a.m. Tuesday — inside a Brooklyn high school auditorium that seemed all the more cavernous due to its mostly empty seats — that a city education panel approved what most presumed had been decided months ago. Comment.
Long Island City
MTA will do 7 train work on day of St. Pat’s Parade
The City Council said it had received notice from the MTA that the agency would not be able to stop the scheduled No. 7 subway line work for the Manhattan St. Patrick’s Day Parade this Saturday. Comments (2).
Flushing
Activists stage protest on woman found dead
Flushing activist Michael Chu joined with more than a dozen concerned members of the community Sunday to protest outside the 109th Precinct after he said police ignored a missing person report for a woman who was later found dead. Comment.
Long Island City
Driver who killed teen in LIC uninsured: Cops
The driver in the Long Island City crash near LaGuardia Community College that killed a 16-year-old boy Monday was allegedly driving without insurance, the NYPD said. Comment.
Howard Beach
Cops nab suspect in Howard Beach brush fire deaths
Police charged a Brooklyn man with murder in connection with the deaths of two men who had been shot and beaten and whose bodies were stuffed inside plastic bags and set on fire in an undeveloped section of Howard Beach, police and the Queens district attorney said. Comment.
Jamaica Estates
Red Storm hopes for NIT bid despite loss to Villanova
St. John’s isn’t sure if it will play again this season. Comment.
Forest Hills
Jury convicts Forest Hills cop in cannibal scheme
It took a Manhattan federal jury less than three full days to return a guilty verdict for Gilberto Valle, the NYPD officer from Forest Hills charged with plotting online to kidnap, kill and eat a number of women. Comment.
Richmond Hill
Man, 32, fatally stabbed in Richmond Hill: Cops
Police have identified the man who died in Richmond Hill after being attacked and stabbed by a group of men outside a deli last week as 32-year-old Jose Rubio, of Jamaica. Comment.
Jackson Heights
Jax Hgts boy’s death inspires traffic forum
A block away from where an 11-year-old boy was run over by a dump truck in December, about 100 people attended City Councilman Daniel Dromm’s (D-Jackson Heights) forum Tuesday centered on improving traffic in Jackson Heights. Comment.
Flushing
Jimmy Meng gets month behind bars
After former Flushing state Assemblyman Jimmy Meng was sentenced to a month behind bars Tuesday for taking an $80,000 bribe, his daughter, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Bayside), said her family was ready to move on. Comment.
Astoria
Police arrest suspect in Astoria library groping
ASTORIA — Police said they arrested and charged an Astoria man with forcibly touching a teenage girl inside a Queens library earlier this month. Comment.
Woodside
Police hunt suspect who groped girl at Woodside train station [With Video of Suspect]
WOODSIDE — The NYPD was looking for the public’s help in finding a suspect wanted in connection with a forcible touching that happened earlier this month at the Woodside-61st Street subway station, police said. Comment.
Flushing
Woman’s purse swiped from car in Flushing lot
FLUSHING -- Police were asking the public’s help in finding a person suspected of breaking into a woman’s car as it was parked in a municipal parking lot near 135-20 39th Ave. Comment.
Rockaway Park
Scholars headed to third-straight ‘B’ final
The Scholars Academy girls’ basketball team is heading to its third straight title game, but it is doing so without head Coach Janet Kleiner on the bench. Comment.
Middle Village
Royals crowned champions
In the closing minutes of the third quarter, it appeared the CHSAA Class AA basketball championship between Christ the King and Bishop Loughlin was going to come down to the wire. Comment.
Richmond Hill
Man charged with murder in connection to bodies found in Howard Beach fire
Police said they have arrested a Brooklyn man in connection with the deaths of two men whose bodies the Queens district attorney believes may have been dumped in an undeveloped section of Howard Beach after being murdered elsewhere. Comment.
Long Island City
Driver in critical condition after collision with pole in LIC: Authorities
A driver whose SUV collided with a light pole by the Queens Midtown Tunnel Tuesday afternoon was listed in critical condition later that night, police said. Comments (1).
Jackson Heights
Man trafficked girls in Queens: DA
A Queens grand jury indicted a Yonkers man on sex trafficking charges last week after he allegedly prostituted three teenage girls in Jackson Heights and throughout the city, the Queens district attorney’s office said. Comment.
Astoria
FOCUS ON QUEENS: City Council candidate Tony Meloni hosts a fund-raiser
City Council candidate Tony Meloni held a fund-raiser recently at Istria Sport Club. Comment.
Woodhaven
FOCUS ON QUEENS: PFLAG holds annual awards celebration
The Queens NYC Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) recently held its annual Awards Luncheon and Fund-Raiser at Joe Abbracciamento Restaurant in Woodhaven. Comment.
Broad Channel
Hurricane Heros: Volunteer firefighters honored for work during Sandy
Five volunteer fire departments in southern Queens were honored for their heroic work during and after Hurricane Sandy prior to a meeting of the City Council last week. Each department was awarded a City Council proclamation by Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilman Eric Ulrich. The five departments that were honored were from West Hamilton Beach, Broad Channel, Roxbury, Point Breeze and Rockaway Point. Comment.
Flushing
Honoring America’s History at East-West School
The East-West School of International Studies recently held aribbon-cutting for its Civil Rights Wall, which features prominent figures in the the civil rights movement. Comment.
Letters
Gov’t must save U.S. Postal Service
It is sad to contemplate the possible demise of our reliable “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” U.S. Postal Service, but that may fall victim to the onslaught of the privatization pirates. Comments (3).
Whitestone
MMA school offers close-knit community
A new school for mixed-martial arts, American Top Team, held its grand opening in Whitestone last month. Comment.
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