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Forest Hills Ledger > News The Rev. Floyd Flake (inset) has pulled out of Aqueduct Entertainment Group, which submitted this rendering as part of its plans to redevelop Aqueduct Race Track. The Rev. Floyd Flake, the influential southeast Queens minister and former congressman, has withdrawn from the consortium of companies that comprise Aqueduct Entertainment Group, the winning bidder to develop and operate video lottery terminals at the Ozone Park track.
As embattled Gov. David Paterson faced new allegations of impropriety this week, two southeast Queens elected officials said the black community should stand by Paterson.
A high-profile Democratic operative and lobbyist was giving free campaign advice to Gov. David Paterson at the same time he was hired to lobby Paterson on behalf of one of the losing bidders of the Aqueduct video lottery terminal contract.
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When Salman Ahmad stepped onto the stage at Queens College last week, he was promoting the same message that has long defined his career and vaulted him into stardom as one of Pakistan’s best-known rock stars who has sold more than 30 million albums — unity.
Even as his legal team argues that the March 16 special election to fill his seat is invalid and unconstitutional, expelled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate (D-East Elmhurst) has mobilized his re-election campaign with the help of a bloc of churches in his district opposed to same-sex marriage.
The luck of the Irish extended to Sunnyside Sunday, where participants and spectators of the 11th-annual St. Pat’s for All Parade were treated to warm temperatures down the parade route.
Hundreds of revelers descended on Smokey Oval Park Sunday, dousing each other with colorful powders, liquids and dyes in celebration of Phagwah, the Hindu rites of spring.
Queens officials said Gov. David Paterson should resign if allegations he ordered members of his administration to pressure a woman into dropping her charges of domestic violence against one of the governor’s top aides prove true.
A federal government investigation has found that a former owner of Astoria’s Ravenswood generators was involved in a price-fixing scheme that resulted in Con Edison customers being overcharged during a period of two years, a spokeswoman for the state Public Service Commission said.
The Jackson Heights woman who allegedly defrauded more than three dozen immigrant families to the tune of over $300,000 has been ordered to repay the money and pay millions more in penalties, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
It has come to this: Pop-Tarts and Doritos have trumped homemade brownies as acceptable foods allowed to be sold at bake sales inside the city’s public schools.
The rift between two warring factions of the Queens Republican Party just got deeper.
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti Jan. 12 hit home for many New York City residents with roots in Haiti.
A nonprofit that provides services to immigrants and has offices in Queens would lose more than a quarter of their English language classes if Gov. David Paterson’s budget cuts are enacted, parents, students and activists said at a rally in Elmhurst last week.
The TimesLedger Newspapers won two awards in Suburban Newspapers of America’s annual editorial contest for 2009.
For the first time anyone can remember, a dolphin made waves in the polluted waters of Newtown Creek last week, creating a minor uproar as conservation groups attempted to prevent the animal from coming to further harm.
Queens residents packed into the Rego Center shopping complex last week, forming lines that snaked around the Kohl’s and Century 21 stores shoppers praised for bringing hundreds of jobs to the borough.
Queens residents packed into the Rego Center shopping complex last week, forming lines that snaked around the Kohl’s and Century 21 stores shoppers praised for bringing hundreds of jobs to the borough.
Voters in Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights are awash in mailers this week as former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate battles state Assemblyman Jose Peralta (D-Jackson Heights) in a special election set for Tuesday.
Parents interested in running for a seat on a city education council have until March 12 to nominate themselves, city Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said.
The fate of a storied Jackson Heights commercial building emptied in recent months by rising rents is still in question nearly a month after the final hold-out, the beloved Cavalier Restaurant, closed its doors.
The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile over the weekend damaged homes and killed more than 700 people so far, but Chileans living in Queens said they were grateful it was not worse.
The city has paid a $98,000 settlement to a former staff member at Astoria’s Community Board 1 who had filed a lawsuit that accused former district manager George Delis of sexually harassing her during her three-year stint at the board’s office, a spokeswoman for the city Law Department said.
More than 150 Queens residents, government representatives and United Nations officials will gather March 20 at the Queens Museum of Art to celebrate International Earth Day with interfaith prayers, song and dance.
World War II hero Doris “Dorie” Miller has been honored by the military, Hollywood and the city that named a Corona co-op after him.
The Corona man who raped two women in 2007 and 2008 was sentenced last week to 23 years behind bars, the Queens district attorney’s office said.
Hundreds of testy Queens straphangers vented their anger at MTA officials for nearly six hours in Flushing last week, using words like “outrage,” “shame” and “disaster” in denouncing a plan to severely cut service on subways and buses.
A Brooklyn federal court judge has ruled that the state Health Department must provide 4,500 units of individual housing for the mentally ill living in group homes in Queens and other boroughs over the next three years.
A Fresh Meadows man who allegedly hijacked his Kew Gardens girlfriend’s Facebook account and beat her while threatening to make sex tapes of them public will return to court next week, the Queens district attorney’s office said.
Queens led New York City in deaths from seven diseases and other lethal causes in the latest statistical health snapshot of the city, but life expectancy in the five boroughs hit a new all-time high.
Police were on the lookout for a Forest Hills contractor who has been accused of filing documents with the city Department of Buildings that used forged seals of approval after he failed to show up for an August 2008 court date.
A Howard Beach church was broken into in a brazen burglary that netted two chalices worth $11,000, including one valued at $10,000 alone, police and a priest from the church said.
The Long Island Rail Road has made public for the first time what a ride on the railroad actually costs and what portion is subsidized in a breakdown released in light of the MTA’s financial plight and plans for service cutbacks.
Some of the Queens Public Library’s historical pieces will be entering the 21st century soon as the nation’s largest library system launches an online collection of its oldest books, photos and periodicals this spring.
After tallying more than 15,000 online ballots, the city Health Department revealed this week that Kew Gardens resident Luis Acosta’s design will appear on millions of free condoms throughout New York City.
Queens legislators announced Tuesday they successfully negotiated with the city Department of Education to ensure officials will give zoned students first crack at the 350 seats expected to open this fall in Forest Hills’ Metropolitan High School.
Long after many shops shut their doors in the face of last week’s snowstorm, customers at one Kew Gardens restaurant thumbed their noses at the slippery streets and danced the night away at a fund-raiser for Haiti.
Western Queens residents and community leaders lined up outside Astoria’s 30th Avenue subway station Tuesday morning to protest the MTA’s decision to cut its W train service to the community.
The economy may be weak, but there are still employment and business opportunities, according to a town hall forum on jobs and the economy hosted Saturday by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria).
Residents in northern Maspeth are dealing with a spate of burglaries near 73rd Street, civic leaders and police said last week.
Residents of Maspeth and Ridgewood were skeptical but not outright hostile toward the city School Construction Authority’s plan to build a 600-seat elementary school next to Grover Cleveland High School.
Queens poets, take note: The search for works that inspire borough residents of all ages and cultural backgrounds has begun.
Queens poets, take note: The search for works that inspire borough residents of all ages and cultural backgrounds has begun.
An Ozone Park father was charged Saturday with brutally assaulting his infant daughter, who sustained 17 fractured ribs, a lacerated liver and a bite mark on her leg, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Misty May-Treanor is one of the top beach volleyball players in the world, but the Olympic gold medalist told St. John’s University she never feels like a superstar.
Queens College officials celebrated this week the completion of a $30 million renovation that brought 11 new labs and a three-floor mosaic of a nucleus collision to one of the main science buildings on campus.
Sunnyside is gearing up once more for the city’s gay-friendly St. Patrick’s Day Parade this Sunday.
Nestled among the volumes of Long Island City’s industrial history is the story of one immigrant who made good on his dreams and built a family-owned pasta empire that lasted for nearly 70 years and of one descendant eager to keep the legacy alive in Queens.
Now that Queens has become a gateway for sex and human trafficking in part because of its two international airports, law enforcement, nonprofits and the media need to work in concert to combat the exploitation that happens just under borough residents’ noses, according to panelists at Queens Borough Hall last week.
Although state funding for the land acquisition is in doubt, a preservationist group has unveiled a new look for the former site of St. Saviour’s Church in Maspeth.
Taller buildings may be coming to Queens Boulevard as part of a proposed rezoning of Sunnyside and Woodside, but that would come in return for limited height for developments on residential side streets, city officials said.
ATMs were convenient but security cameras were not for a Michigan man and two Romanians busted by police last week on suspicion of installing electronics on a Woodside bank’s cash machines to steal customers’ information, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
For Michael Jaye, a manager at Forest Hills’ New York Diamond Boutique, a $15 billion jobs bill passed by Congress has prompted him to hire two new people for his shop on Austin Street — a feat in an economy that has struck some locally owned Queens shops hard.
His illustrations may have appeared on the editorial pages of several major newspapers and he may have briefly played his banjo with the rock band Weezer, but Woodside resident Johnny Coughlan never knows what he will take on next.
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) and the Democrat running against him in the primary, Lilianna Zulunova, have thrown themselves head first into their campaigns, with each holding fund-raisers last week and pounding the pavement to win support from district residents. Ongoing events and notices in your community
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