Queens Center Mall Prepares For Holiday Rush
By Jon Cronin Staff Writer No need to worry about where to shop this holiday season. Queens Center Mall has it all. “It’s the best mall in all of New York,” said John Scaturro, senior manager of...
View ArticleGreat Holiday Gifts to Help Kids Learn
One of the best ways to motivate kids to learn is by making it fun, and the holiday season is the perfect opportunity to equip the kids in your life with gifts that are equal parts entertaining and...
View ArticleBest Holiday Gift For Seniors? Teach Them How To Use Tech To Stay Connected
If you’re thinking of buying grandma her first ever smartphone or tablet for the holidays, but aren’t sure she’ll be able to handle the technology … make that purchase! Studies show technology can lead...
View ArticleHeartshare Offering Heat Aid
HeartShare Human Services, in partnership with National Grid, will open its Neighborhood Heating Fund for the season on Wednesday, December 9. Through the Neighborhood Heating Fund, HeartShare...
View ArticleElder Care Services: Help Is Out There
Jack Lippmann, owner of Elder Care Services, Inc., says many of his clients come to him in a crisis. Suddenly, a health event has them in need of long term care, and yet they’ve been told that they...
View ArticleThe Power of Touch: Your Fingertips Are A Healing Device
BY JOANNE BARRY Did you know that Reiki dates back to 1800’s and was rediscovered by a Buddhist monk called Dr. Mikao Usui. What is Reiki? Reiki is the spiral energy of life. It helps to connect the...
View ArticleLast Minute Gifts For The 4 Types Of People
Inevitably it happens – no matter how much you plan, how meticulous you are in making a list with all your friends, family and co-workers on it, you forget to buy a gift for someone and have to...
View ArticleCommunity Watchdog: Using Her Power For Fairer Civic Representation
By Yvette Brown Staff Writer “Because if it’s Good for Families, it’s Good for Queens,” is what is written on Queens Borough President Melinda Katz’s Twitter bio. Katz has always been heavily involved...
View ArticleGreen Fighter: A Defender Of Underserved Borough Parks
By Lynn Edmonds Staff Writer Throughout her term as borough president, Melinda Katz has made Queens’ parks a priority. She’s done so both by contributing money to enhance them, and putting her foot...
View ArticleA Voice On The Shore: Katz Has Put a Focus On Storm-Ravaged Rockaway
By Jon Cronin Staff Writer Since coming into office Melinda Katz has been a great advocate of the Rockaways, the borough’s only beach front property. As a way to aid in the accelerated re-growth after...
View ArticleJamaica Now: A Plan For A Long-Maligned Community
BY TRONE DOWD Staff Writer Melinda Katz’s contributions to Southeast Queens is likely to be a crucial centerpiece to her legacy as not only the borough president, but as a general public servant. Her...
View ArticleKatz Challenges City Hall On Zoning
By Jon Cronin Staff Writer Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability zoning proposal received lukewarm receptions this fall from the community...
View ArticleRestoring Faith In Libraries: Katz: Removal of Trustees Essential
By Jon Cronin Staff Writer With little more than six months into her tenure as Borough President, Melinda Katz spearheaded the removal of both the Queens Library CEO Tom Galante and six members of the...
View ArticleLeading “The World’s Borough” Katz Has Made Queens Into A Destination
By Domenick Rafter Editor in Chief When Melinda Katz took over at the helm at Borough Hall in January 2014, she sought to turn Queens from that place across the river from Manhattan, to a primary...
View ArticleSaving a Borough Icon: Katz Wants New Life For Historic World’s Fair Site
By Lynn Edmonds Staff Writer At the time of the 1964-65 World’s Fair, the New York State Pavilion, a futuristic structure that was at home in the movie “Men in Black,” was a symbol of optimism about a...
View ArticleA Lawyer By Trade: Katz’s Training In Law Helped Her In Politics
By Trone Dowd Staff Writer Before Melinda Katz found herself fully immersed in the world of New York City politics, she pursued a career as a lawyer. In fact, forever the Queens native, Katz graduated...
View ArticleA Daughter of Queens: Katz’s Upbringing Still Influences Her Today
By Domenick Rafter Editor-in-Chief Melinda Katz was born, raised and lived her adult life in Queens. The Forest Hills home that Katz is living in, where she is raising her two sons Carter and Hunter,...
View ArticleFlushing Commons Developers: Project Already an “Uncommon Success”
BY MICHAEL STAHL Roughly a year before phase one of the transformative Flushing Commons residential and commercial mega-project is set to be complete, the developers are characterizing it as an...
View ArticleReal Estate Investors Crowdfund LIC Project
By JON CRONIN Staff Writer Fundrise, is a Washington D.C.-based revolutionary real estate crowd funding investment firm that allows the everyday man to invest as little as $1,000 in commercial projects...
View Article60,000 New Rental Apartments Rising
BY MICHAEL STOLER Cranes, cranes and more cranes are seen all over the city of New York. These massive cranes are rising hundreds of feet in the air in the Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens...
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