Dining Calendar
A nose-to-tail pork dinner will accompany flights of Stoudts beers on Thursday at Alobar, 46-42 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens. Reservations are available from 5:30 to 10 p.m. The five-course dinner, with each course paired with a different beer, is $50; a flight of the beers alone is $10. Tax and tip are extra. […]
Caretaker offered high school student ‘as much money as she wanted’ to let him …
Maintenance man got violent when girl refused toe-sucking offer Issue raises concerns about city’s efforts to allow private companies to hire maintenance staff By Phil Vinter PUBLISHED: 10:44 EST, 6 August 2012 | UPDATED: 12:24 EST, 6 August 2012 A perverse high school caretaker has been sacked after he opened his wallet and offered a […]
Pol Aims to Make New York’s Gun Laws Toughest in the Country
ASTORIA — Amid the latest spike in crime around New York and following the mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, Astoria state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) is introducing a series of bills to strengthen the state’s gun control laws, aiming to make New York the toughest state on guns. The number of shootings in the […]
ICYMI: Off-Beat Business
You’ve see the headlines, read the front pages and checked out the business section. But In Case You Missed It, here are a few, under-the-radar business stories you might have overlooked. Proposed Nerd Bus Could Mean Tech ConnectionsA new bus line could serve New York’s tech companies if Senator Chuck Schumer has his way, according […]
Queens School Supply Drive Aims to Help Kids in Need
LONG ISLAND CITY — Starting this week, Queens residents can drop off school supplies at five Queens Library branches and at Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer’s district office in an effort to help children from poor families get the necessary supplies for the upcoming school year. This is the third time the councilman has conducted the […]
New boro coalition holds second tech meetup in LIC
Photo by Rebecca Henely Participants in the second Queens Tech Meetup in Long Island City participate in a tug-of-war. By Rebecca Henely TimesLedger Newspapers The nonprofit Coalition for Queens once sought to bring an applied sciences campus to the borough. Now it is teaching people about the technology already here. Queens Tech Meetup, the coalition’s […]