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A memorial plaque for Suzanne Hart has been put up in the lobby of 285 Madison Avenue, the building where she was killed in an elevator accident on Dec. 19, 2011. (DNAinfo/Mary Johnson) MANHATTAN — As a city report blames worker oversight for the death of Suzanne Hart, one New York-based elevator expert claims he has […]

PLAY VIDEO (DNAinfo/Nick Hirshon) LONG ISLAND CITY — The writing’s on the wall — and Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. does not approve. Vallone’s campaign against the glorification of graffiti has a new target — an ex-subway vandal who began tagging walls as “KR.ONE” while he was a fifth-grader at P.S. 166 in Long Island […]

FedEx Ground will shutter its Maspeth distribution center and move to a sprawling Long Island City facility next year, company officials said. The new 140,000-square-foot plant on Borden Ave. will cost an estimated $56 million to construct and could be completed by spring 2013, FedEx spokesman David Westrick told the Daily News on Tuesday. The […]

Verizon FiOS is dropping Bridges TV from its regular lineup, putting in further jeopardy the Muslim lifestyle network that was founded in Orchard Park in 2004. The network moved last summer to the New York City area from the Orchard Park office park where its co-founder Aasiya Zubair Hassan was brutally killed by the other […]

Dabney Montgomery, 88, often wears a hat honoring the Tuskegee Airmen. He is also seen here with a Congressional Medal around his neck. (DNAinfo/Jill Colvin) LONG ISLAND CITY — For nearly 70 years, Dabney Montgomery’s wartime heroics had gone almost unnoticed. But the 88-year-old Harlem man, who is one of the few remaining Tuskegee Airmen, […]

After four decades of death threats, picket lines and evictions, a leading women’s health crusader is set to open one of the state’s largest, licensed abortion clinics this week in southeast Queens. Choices Women’s Medical Center, which also provides gynecological, prenatal and counseling services, is moving from its current Long Island City location to a […]

[Photo via Photo of Chiclet the cat aboard the Mary A. Whalen by Carolyn Salguero] RED HOOK—There will be an emergency meeting tonight [Long Island City Hospital, corner of Atlantic Ave Hicks Street, Brooklyn; 6:30-8:30p] to plot a course of action to save the retired tanker and homeless historic ship the Mary A. Whalen. Security […]

Long Island City businesses that thrived off of Fresh Direct’s presence in the neighborhood fear life after the grocer’s departure and are hopefully a new business takes the 300,000-square-foot space soon, Crain’s reported. New York Deli on Borden Avenue, which sold lunch to many Fresh Direct employees, vendors and financiers, Public Service Truck Renting, which […]

A local business group is reviving a long-dormant association to help Queens shake its suburban image and attract more visitors. The Queens Tourism Council, which has existed mostly in name only since the late 1980s, is getting a fresh set of members to reflect the infusion of new businesses and attractions. Queens Economic Development Corp. […]