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Jackson Heights Times > News City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (center r.), joined by Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan on the left and Community Board 2 Chairman Joseph Conley on the right, demand the shutdown of Casa Romana Restaurant and Bar in Sunnyside, where a brawl between minors occurred on Aug. 28. Photo by Rebecca Henely City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) and state Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D-Ridgewood) led about 50 people in a rally to close the Casa Romana Bar in Sunnyside last Thursday. The demand was in response to an altercation in which two minors were stabbed outside the Queens Boulevard eatery Aug. 28.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg told a town hall meeting in Forest Hills last week he would get in touch with the United States Tennis Association’s president to discuss residents’ concerns about preserving the West Side Tennis Club Stadium that club members are considering selling.
A comprehensive audit of the city Parks Department by city Comptroller John Liu has found that the agency has failed to effectively monitor concessionaires.
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As he runs for the Assembly seat in the 39th District, community activist Francisco Moya said he believes the people in the neighborhood know they need to turn the page on the past.
When Democratic voters in the 39th state Assembly District head to the polls Sept. 14, former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate asks that they vote based on what he has done in the state Legislature, not the scandals of the past two years.
State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D-Forest Hills) entered the last throes of the primary campaign with more than twice as much money in his coffers than his Democratic challenger Joe Fox in the race for the 28th Assembly District, according to their last filings with the state Board of Elections.
Community activist and retired city Police Department Officer Anthony Miranda hopes to break the 18-year tenure of state Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry (D-Corona), but Aubry’s finances are double those of his Democratic challenger.
The city’s top leaders, southeast Queens activists and hundreds of residents who were touched by City Councilman Thomas White’s years of work gathered at the Greater Allen AME Cathedral last Thursday for a final goodbye.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office has been accused of holding up the deal to award Genting NY the contract to install video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Race Track, but the comptroller denied the reports, saying he and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo are doing their due diligence.
U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) is facing an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into his fund-raising activities after an independent congressional watchdog group recommended that he and two other congressmen should be questioned.
The city public advocate is taking aim at New York’s worst landlords and seven borough building owners are on his list, giving Queens the second fewest number of offenders.
A bread truck driver from Elmhurst was shot in the head and killed Friday while making his rounds through Brooklyn, police sources said. Police are unsure if the bullet that killed the man, Jorge Martinez, was intended for him or not.
During the last school year, students, teachers, parents and other supporters rallied, fought and lobbied to keep Jamaica High School’s doors open for a new class of freshman.
Steven Slater’s rant and escape from a JetBlue aircraft following an argument with a rowdy passenger last month turned him into an Internet sensation, but the flight attendant’s mental state during the caper may get him out of serving serious jail time.
New York City men die an average of six years earlier than women, many of them because of what health officials call preventable causes including poor diet, smoking, lack of health care and homicide.
A 27-year-old man who is a top aide to Albania’s deputy prime minister has been accused of the 2005 drive-by shooting death of a man outside a Long Island City cafe, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said.
The machine, they said, looked suspect.
U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Astoria) will face off against Manhattan’s Reshma Saujani next week to retain her seat in a race the congresswoman said has become dominated by one issue: “jobs, jobs, jobs.”
A Bronx man was convicted last week in the rape of a 20-year-old St. John’s University student who was leaving her first day of work at a new job in Fresh Meadows and managed to capture the attack in a disturbing 911 call played in court, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
After 11th-hour negotiations between the Queens Public Library and the union representing the library’s workers failed last month, 44 employees were laid off Friday. Ongoing events and notices in your community
Previous Jackson Heights Times HeadlinesSeptember 9th, 2010 Monserrate runs on record in his bid for Assembly seatWhen Democratic voters in the 39th state Assembly District head to the polls Sept. 14, former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate asks that they vote based on what he has done in the state Legislature, not the scandals of the past two years.Bloomberg enters stadium forayMayor Michael Bloomberg told a town hall meeting in Forest Hills last week he would get in touch with the United States Tennis Association’s president to discuss residents’ concerns about preserving the West Side Tennis Club Stadium that club members are considering selling.Moya contends new faces needed to help communityAs he runs for the Assembly seat in the 39th District, community activist Francisco Moya said he believes the people in the neighborhood know they need to turn the page on the past.September 2nd, 2010 Teen talks about page lifeAn Ozone Park teen with a passion for politics who was selected for the prestigious U.S. House of Representatives Page Program said the experience opened his eyes to how the country’s government is run.Aubry draws on experienceAs state Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry (D-Corona) meets with residents throughout East Elmhurst and Corona in preparation for the Sept. 14 Democratic primary, he is trying to educate the public on not only what he has done in his 18 years in office, but why.August 26th, 2010 Travers Park opens after major redesignA jungle fit for Tarzan and his animal companions brought children, parents and community and City Council members together last Thursday for Travers Park’s ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate recent renovations to the Jackson Heights park.Pakistan flood aid from groups in Queens virtually nonexistentAn effort to provide aid to victims of the flooding that has devastated Pakistan since the July monsoon rains has been slow to emerge even though the borough is home to a substantial population from the South Asian nation.Retired cop challenges AubryAs the founder of the National Latino Officers Association, a group that defends the rights of law enforcement officers and citizens, state Assembly candidate Anthony Miranda has always seen himself as a community advocate. |
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