Flushing
By Gina Martinez
Students at PS 120 attended their school’s ground-breaking Tuesday after helping to design the new playground set to be completed in the fall.
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Bellerose
By Gina Martinez
The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team squared off against a local team of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents Saturday in Bellerose.
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Broad Channel
By Naeisha Rose
For two months only, the artwork of Denise P. Levine is at The Jamaica Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel.
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Bayside
By Mark Hallum
The Queens County Democratic Party has endorsed Councilman Paul Vallone (D-Bayside) for the upcoming municipal elections. As the incumbent, Vallone represents northeast Queens, from Flushing to Douglaston, and faces community activist and land use expert Paul Graziano in the Democratic primary.
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Long Island City
By Bill Parry
When 55 community college students from around the nation were selected Tuesday for the 2017 Jack Kent Cook Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarships, three were from LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City. Each will receive up to $40,000 a year to complete a bachelor’s degree at a four-year college or university.
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Kew Gardens Hills
By Gina Martinez
Councilmen Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) and Peter Koo (D- Flushing) were joined by Queens civic leaders and homeowners at a news conference Tuesday afternoon urging Mayor Bill de Blasio to direct the city Water Board not to raise New Yorkers’ water rates in 2018.
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By Mark Hallum
In a major change from its tradition as an all-boys’ school, Holy Cross High School will be opening admissions to female students, the Flushing Catholic institution announced.
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Basketball
By Laura Amato
St. John’s got a verbal commit from Bronx native Sidney Wilson on Saturday, another local product ready to suit up for the Red Storm next season.
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Oakland Gardens
By Mark Hallum
A Jackson Heights woman has been convicted of manslaughter and assault stemming from a July 2015 motor vehicle accident in an Oakland Gardens school zone that caused the deaths of three family members and severely injured two others, the Queens DA said.
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Forest Hills
By Gina Martinez
First-grader Chloe Mitchell, a Whitestone girl who was diagnosed with leukemia in March, got a special performance from The Songs of Love Foundation Saturday.
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By Naeisha Rose
First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica launched its first of its monthly Business Development & Empowerment Workshops Saturday.
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Sunnyside
By Bill Parry
Sunnyside lost a beloved pillar of its community when Gertrude “Gert” McDonald died Sunday after a brief battle with cancer at the age of 100.
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Arts
By Alexandra Simon
The Bankra Caribbean Folk Festival highlights the many variations of a common culture.
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Tennis
By Laura Amato
The St. Francis Prep boys tennis team defeated Iona Prep on Thursday to clinch the team’s first city title since 2010, wrapping up another dominant season on the court.
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By Phil Orenstein
Two depraved individuals will be awarded high honors in New York City in June — one an unrepentant terrorist, a murderer of fellow New Yorkers, and the other is a vocal supporter of terrorist murderers.
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By Naeisha Rose
U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary John Kelly announced an extension Monday of the temporary protected status of 55,000 Haitians across the country that will last until January 2018.
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Fresh Meadows
By Mark Hallum
A Fresh Meadows 15-year-old has returned home after being reported missing for the second time this year, police said. Skye Azhar was last seen May 16 and returned home two days later, according to NYPD.
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Baseball
By Laura Amato
The Monsignor McClancy baseball team boasts a handful of potential draft picks this spring, but the Crusaders aren’t letting an MLB future change their game on the high school diamond.
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Flushing
By Gina Martinez
After allocating $40,000 in funding, City Councilman Rory Lancman (D-Hillcrest) visited PS 165 in Flushing and PS 154 in Fresh Meadows last week to celebrate the success of the Cultural After School Adventures program.
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Crime
By Mark Hallum
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who represented Queens and Brooklyn, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court Friday to transmitting obscene material to a minor.
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Softball
By Joseph Wilkin
The Archbishop Molloy softball team rolled to a first-round victory in the BQCHSAA playoffs on Thursday, defeating Fontbonne Hall 5-1.
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Bayside
By Mark Hallum
Norman Heller was not waiting around for recognition after he stuck his neck out for a fellow soldier who had been shot on a desolate roadway in Saigon in 1962. He was later told by a commanding officer he was recommended for the Bronze Star for valor, and four decades later he will get the award he earned trying to save a man’s life.
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Rockaway Beach
By Bill Parry
The entire 5-½-mile length of the Rockaway boardwalk opens to the public on Saturday to kick off Memorial Day weekend for the first time since it was obliterated by Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.
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Government
By Bill Parry
Following a 60 percent increase in reports of discrimination to the city’s Commission on Human Rights in 2016, a trend that continues into 2017, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a citywide anti-discrimination campaign Tuesday. Advertisement, videos, community events and public service announcements will affirm New Yorkers right to live, work and pray free from discrimination and harassment.
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Sunnyside
By Bill Parry
On several occasions since 2010, City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) has watched as the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals approved developers’ projects that had been rejected by Van Bramer or Community Board 2. Each time, BSA was not compelled to explain its decision, so Van Bramer drafted legislation to bring transparency and accountability to BSA decisions.
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Oakland Gardens
By Mark Hallum
The memory of President John F. Kennedy is alive and well in Queens where elected officials and community leaders celebrated what would be his 100th birthday in Oakland Gardens.
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Jackson Heights
By Bill Parry
Tens of thousands of revelers were expected to flood the streets of Jackson Heights June 4 for the 25th anniversary of the Queens Pride parade and festival.
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Flushing
By Gina Martinez
A Brooklyn man is accused of groping four females, including three young girls, in the span of four hours at a Flushing mall, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
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Jackson Heights
By Bill Parry
The Jackson Heights post office on 37th Avenue was renamed Saturday in honor of Jeanne and Jules Manford — the late Queens residents and national heroes who fought for the advancement of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
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President Donald Trump’s Draconian budget proposal jolted Queens lawmakers, who were braced for steep cutbacks but not the evisceration of programs for children, the elderly, the hungry and students struggling with loans.
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Baseball
By Laura Amato
The Crusaders baseball team notched three home runs from three different players on Wednesday afternoon, cruising to an 11-1 victory over Archbishop Molloy.
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By Frederick R. Bedell
I would like to impress upon the masses the importance of donating blood. I was at the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston recently, where many groups were being honored for running blood drives.
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Bayside
By Mark Hallum
A 16-year-old St. Albans youth who was stabbed at least two dozen times and found dead in Bayside’s Alley Pond Park Sunday was probably the victim of a gang murder, police said. It was the first homicide in the precinct since 2014.
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Flushing
By Gina Martinez
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved renovation plans for the historic RKO theater on Northern Boulevard at the gateway to the heart of Flushing.
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Jackson Heights
By Bill Parry
Jackson Heights business owners, residents and environmental attorneys joined City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D-Jackson Heights) Tuesday to announce a class action lawsuit against the MTA, claiming the public transit entity failed to address a public health hazard posed by lead paint on the Roosevelt Avenue train trestles of the No. 7 subway line.
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Flushing
By Gina Martinez
State Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Flushing) and Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan) were joined by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Manhattan) at Flushing Town hall last week to announce the formation of the Asian Pacific American Legislative Caucus.
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Crime
By Naeisha Rose
New York City has suffered a significant rise in hate crimes compared to last year, according to Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
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East Elmhurst
By Bill Parry
The saga of Kalief Browder has been seared in the public’s conscience and powered movements to close Rikers Island and reform the city’s criminal justice. Unfortunately, it has done little to change the fact that tens of thousands are imprisoned each year because they cannot afford to post bail.
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Government
By Mark Hallum
Queens congressional members had choice words for President Donald Trump’s latest budget proposal, claiming it will wick away vital resources from working class Americans to line the pockets of the wealthy with tax cuts.
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High Heat
By Zach Gewelb
With the Mets bullpen struggling and Jeurys Familia out with an injury, could New York make a move for another late-inning reliever?
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Long Island City
By Tammy Scileppi
Two local artists have checked into a couple of hip hotels in Long Island City, and they’re inviting the public to drop by their studios and check out their art.
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Letters
By Rory I. Lancman
Playing politics with New Yorkers’ water rates is nothing new for the city. Mayors have often raised water rates after pledging not to.
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Politics
By Julianne Cuba
Bay Ridge and Staten Island assemblywoman and New York City mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis met with the editors of Community News Group and NYC Community Media at our office Downtown on May 18 to discuss her campaign to unseat Mayor DeBlasio in November.
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Long Island City
By Bill Parry
A badly decomposed body was discovered floating in the East River just off Hunters Point South Park in Long Island City just after 6 p.m. Tuesday, according to the NYPD.
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Theater
By Merle Exit
Prepare yourself for belly laughs with Rockaway Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s hilarious farce “Rumors,” directed by Peggy Press and Michael Wotypka.
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Ridgewood
By Zach Gewelb
A Ridgewood man who was missing since Friday has been located in good condition, according to authorities.
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Bayside
By Mark Hallum
Police sources have released the identity of the murder victim found in Bayside’s Alley Pond Park on Sunday as a 16-year-old with possible gang ties.
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Elmhurst
By Bill Parry
Police were searching for a 24-year-old Jackson Heights man who was last seen at Elmhurst Hospital Center the morning of May 18.
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Jamaica
By Naeisha Rose
A motorcyclist was ejected from his bike Saturday at 4:46 a.m. after striking the rear bumper of a black Chevrolet Suburban on the Van Wyck Expressway and Hillside Avenue, according to officers from the 102nd Precinct.
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By Gina Martinez
Police were searching for a man suspected of assault inside a Flushing grocery store.
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Jamaica
By Naeisha Rose
JAMAICA - A 22-year-old woman from Jamaica living near Union Hall Street and Guy R. Brewer Blvd. was shot in the torso by an unidentified individual at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, the 103rd Precinct said.
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Jamaica
By Zach Gewelb
The NYPD was searching for an unidentified male suspect in connection with a grand larceny on the subway.
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Richmond Hill
By Zach Gewelb
A man was shot and killed Thursday in Richmond Hill, according to authorities.
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South Richmond Hill
By Naeisha Rose
Nest Restaurant and Bar, a Guyanese-Caribbean fusion restaurant in South Richmond Hill, will be having its 6th annual Duck Curry Competition Sunday.
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Queens Village
By Naeisha Rose
Many people cheered as Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke about the positive changes to the borough of Queens and New York City during his first term Thursday at the Queens County Democratic Organization’s annual spring dinner at Antun’s in Queens Village.
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