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More than 200 runners, walkers, and environmental enthusiasts joined State Senator John Liu for an Earth Day Fun Run, a 5K celebration of parks, greenways, and environmental conservation in Kissena ...
May 6 through 12 is National Nurses Week, a time to recognize and celebrate our nation’s nurses. Nurses are every day heroes and we don’t mean “everyday” as in ordinary, but every day as in saving ...
On Sunday, April 20 there was a devastating three-alarm fire im­pacting two buildings on the cor­ner of 23rd Street and 31st Avenue in Astoria. Four people were rushed to the hospital, but they only ...
Hello Flushing! The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck is returning to The Shops at SkyView Center on Saturday, 5/3! Come say hello to us at the Main Mall Entrance on College Point Boulevard between 10am-7pm and ...
Easter Egg Hunts are popular in Queens. A wonderful outdoor Easter Egg Hunt by the Northwest Bayside Civic Association was held in Bay­side Fields, at Clearview Express­way and 29th Ave. on Saturday ...
The Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens (VBGCQ) celebrated Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, by launching its second full season of operations at Sky Farm LIC – a rooftop farm that will continue to ...
Katch Astoria is open for business!! Springtime is the right time to come over for a night of great food, brews, cocktails, sports watching, Trivia Night, and more! Don’t be misled by the ongoing ...
Tightly wound like an expensive clock, Drop is a terrific new thriller filled with genuine excitement and edge-of-your-seat suspense. It features a fresh and original concept told with Hitchcockian ...
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) last week unveiled its new, “sleeker subway map”– described as a far cry from the multi-colored mess straphangers have been depend­ing on to decipher ...
Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...
Maria Kaushansky is a pianist who has been living in Astoria since 2018. Born in Russia, she immigrated with her family to Canada in her childhood. In Toronto she trained as a classical pianist. She ...
St. Joseph Church presented the bilingual (English & Spanish) Live Reenact­ment of the Passion of Christ of Jesus’ Crucifixion performed in 14 stations on the streets of Astoria. Those participating ...