Pomonok
By Joe Anuta
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty cut the ribbon on a new 78-unit residence facility for low-income senior citizens last week.
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Flushing
By Joe Anuta
Photo by Joe Anuta
Flushing residents and civic associations want to know why the Mormon church is intent on constructing a chapel on 33rd Avenue that exceeds zoning regulations when it could build one on the land it already owns downtown.
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Flushing
By Joe Anuta
Residents south of the Long Island Expressway in Electchester do not want to see their Key Food go, but the landlord seems dead set on giving the grocer the boot and bringing in a big-box pharmacy instead.
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Bay Terrace
By Joe Anuta
At its monthly meeting Monday night, Community Board 7 threw its support behind renovations to a Fort Totten building set to house the Center for the Women of New York.
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Flushing
By Joe Anuta
Photo by Joe Anuta
The Staples store at Northern and Parsons boulevards in Flushing closed for good Saturday, adding another vacant retail space on the street.
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South Ozone Park
By Howard koplowitz
Changing a few words made a big difference on state voters’ opinion of the plan to build the country’s largest convention center adjacent to the Aqueduct racino.
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The Civic Scene
By Bob Harris
In 1991, when the new City Charter was written, civic leaders warned that the creation of a city Board of Standards and Appeals would lower the quality of life, and it is happening as predicted.
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Letters
For co-op and condo residents, the real property tax assessment rolls have become a tax roller coaster. Some eastern Queens co-ops are facing 50 percent increases in assessed value this year, at a time when market values are essentially flat.
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