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From indiejourno.com : For many students in Queens, overcrowded schools are a constant reality. Each day they jostle and push through crammed hallways, squeezing into classrooms designed for fewer occupants. Some students in Jackson Heights, however, may soon be granted a reprieve, as the ...
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Jackson Heights
From the Times Ledger : Regarding Paul Vallone’s political future, we will be finding out during the next few months whether he will run for political office in 2010. He cannot run for the state Assembly seat in the 26th Assembly District, which is currently represented by Assemblywoman ...
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Bayside
From the NY Post : A JFK shuttle train that had just undergone preventive maintenance lost two doors just before picking up its first passengers [Friday], sources said. As the AirTrain pulled into the Lefferts Boulevard stop at 3:30 a.m., the two doors swung off their hinges. One careened ...
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Howard Beach
From the NY Times : To eke out a narrow re-election victory over the city’s understated comptroller, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spent $102 million of his own money, or about $183 per vote, according to data released on Friday, making his bid for a third term the most expensive campaign in ...
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Michael Bloomberg
From China Daily : China State Construction Engineering Corp, the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about $100 million in New York's Manhattan area, marking the construction giant's third order in the United States' infrastructure space this year. The ...
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Manhattan
Forgotten-NY visits the arches of the Hell Gate bridge, which are full of surprises. Click photo for story.
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Astoria
"A rumor has been spreading through this residential neighborhood that we might be losing the stores that many of us have shopped in since 1952. Owners of coops and private homes in the area are concerned that these will be rental units, with a portion set aside for Section 8 housing in order to ...
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From the Brooklyn Paper : A developer’s bid for a glitzy, 800-unit mixed-use apartment complex along the Williamsburg waterfront tripped at the first hurdle on Tuesday night when a community board committee rejected it 9–1. Members of the Community Board 1 land-use committee objected strongly ...
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Brooklyn
From the NY Times : New York State is running out of cash. Without a budget deal, New York will be left with just $36 million in the bank by the end of December, according to current projections. And the money will last that long, officials say, only if the state chooses to fully exhaust its ...
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Kevin Cash
David Paterson
From the Daily News : Mayor Bloomberg vowed Wednesday the city will use students' test scores to decide if their teachers should get tenure - defying the Legislature and angering the union. Bloomberg made the aggressive move in a speech in Washington as contract talks with the teachers union ...
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Michael Bloomberg
From the Times Ledger : A city agency wants to revoke the license of a Richmond Hill used car dealership along with obtaining $700,000 in restitution and fines from the company for what it called illegal and deceptive business practices. The city Department of Consumer Affairs claimed the ...
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Richmond Hill
Queens
From the Times Ledger : College Point’s First Reformed Church reopened last weekend with its first Sunday worship service in nearly a year and a half following a June 6, 2008, fire that engulfed its steeple and caused major damage to its main sanctuary. A congregation of nearly 50 ...
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College Point
Ryan Church
By ALEX GINSBERG, NY Post A Queens crook who sold strangers fake "winning" lottery tickets will spend 3½ to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to grand larceny, prosecutors said yesterday. Alvin Summers, 37, was accused of ripping off nearly 20 people in five counties out of up to $15,000. ...
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From the Queens Chronicle : A man suspected of rape and sexual assault in Forest Park this year is in custody, police said. Carl Wallace, 29, from Brooklyn, was arrested on Oct. 28 after cops suspected he is the same man responsible for at least one of the three sexual attacks that took place ...
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Woodhaven
Interesting sights to be seen along the avenue known as Catalpa in Ridgewood. Click photo for story.
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Ridgewood
From the Times Ledger : Following the advice of its Land Use Committee, Community Board 12 voted to allow a developer extra time to complete its projects, which had fallen behind schedule because of difficulty in getting financial help from banks. The economy “makes it difficult for ...
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Laurelton
MYFOXNY.COM - The Fox 5 Shame spotlight is focused on the founder of a local film festival. Arnold Diaz reports that some former employees are blowing the whistle on a woman with a long history of dirty business. Some people say that the founder of the Queens International Film Festival uses ...
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Queens
From the Sunnyside Post : Many Woodside residents claimed at Tuesday night’s 108 police precinct meeting that immigrants and day labors are illegally entering Hart Playground (65th and 37th Ave.), frightening local children and leaving the bathroom in a state of disorder. The problem is ...
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From the NY Post : A Queens man was shot by a group of thugs in a home-invasion robbery — but the bumbling thieves had to ditch the massive TV they were trying to steal when they realized it wouldn’t fit in their car, authorities and witnesses said. The victim, a retired mason identified by ...
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From the Bronx Times-Reporter : [Rosanna] Gennarelli has been ticketed for trash a handful of times. The 51-year old has fought ticket after $300 Environmental Control Board (ECB) ticket; Senator Jeff Klein even wrote a letter on her behalf to the ECB. But Gennarelli was ticketed yet again on ...
