What is the Department of Education (DOE) doing? Administrators at the city’s public school system are seemingly asleep at the wheel, allowing teachers to run amok — WITH OUR CHILDREN. In the past week alone, two teachers — who are supposed to be role models for our youth — were busted, one for inappropriately touching [...]
Last week’s State of the State address by Governor Andrew Cuomo promised big things for Queens, chief among them building the country’s largest convention center on the former site of the Aqueduct Racino. The 3.8 million-square-foot convention center would accommodate the nation’s largest events, up to 3,000 hotel rooms and many restaurants, and create new [...]
We applaud the efforts of the 32BJ Union and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB) in averting the potential strike of over 22,000 service workers, including office cleaners. Queens is home to the largest population of these workers, and in avoiding a strike, we feel the economy of the borough, as well as [...]
We were shocked — and honestly very saddened — to learn of the string of Molotov cocktail attacks happening right in our own backyard. Instead of beginning a new year with peace, it seems Queens ushered in 2012 with hate, especially since one of the targets of the attacks was the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center [...]
Much like “The Honeymooners” had the “chef of the future,” Queens will soon have “the Willets Point of the future.” On Thursday, December 1, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and elected officials broke ground at Willets Point – kicking off the long-awaited project with the first phase – the creation of a $50 million sewer system. With [...]
I have always been a proud product of our Cities and States higher education system. This all changed last week! I have very fond memories of my college years. I started off at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. I attended Oneonta from 2000 to 2002 where I was a Political [...]
By Councilmember Leroy Comrie As many in Queens will tell you, there are many non-profit organizations throughout the borough that have helped thousands of people get back on their feet. Non-profit organizations have traditionally been exempt from paying property taxes on buildings they own and provide services in, like churches and non-profit affordable housing developers. [...]
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, and the holiday shopping season is in full swing. So, as you shop, please remember to pick up an extra gift or two, as once again The Courier will be playing Santa – this year to benefit the children and teens of the South Queens Boys [...]
It might still be the worst way to start off a New Year. Officials of the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center in Far Rockaway — and 15 students in the complex’s Children’s Day Treatment program — are hoping they won’t be left on the street the second the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s [...]
It’s been a month since George Gibbons was killed in a wrong-way, hit-and-run crash on the Long Island Expressway. But for his family, it must seem like years. Not only did they lose a son, uncle and brother, but the community lost an upstanding citizen and popular bar owner whose death has been deeply mourned. [...]