Denied its own ZIP code, the post office granted Glendale a distinction to help separate itself from neighboring Ridgewood. The United States Postal Service (USPS) moved Glendale to a “preferred last line,” which will allow Glendale residents to be recognized as such. “Every time we order something it comes up Ridgewood or Flushing, but we’re [...]
Most of Mary Mendez’s mail says she lives in Ridgewood. The Glendale resident has grown used to the fact that when ordering items online, her address will come up as Ridgewood. “Most of the time I’ll just tell people I live there [in Ridgewood],” Mendez said. The address confusion stems from the fact that Glendale [...]
A 165-year-old church may soon receive new life. There have been discussions to move St. Saviour’s Church to the Onderdonk House, a fellow historic Queens locale. St. Saviour’s has searched for a new home since being deconstructed four years ago. During that time it has been warehoused in trailers in Maspeth. Bob Holden, who has [...]
As dozens of students, faculty, supporters and alumni stepped to the microphone during Grover Cleveland High School’s public hearing last month — determined to have their voices heard — many were resigned to the fact that their shouts would fall on deaf ears. But their raucous rallies were heard loud and clear. Hours before the [...]
Hours before the Panel for Educational Policy meeting to decide the fate of 26 city schools, the Department of Education removed Grover Cleveland High School from the list ensuring its survival. Under the turnaround model the Ridgewood school would have closed and reopened under a new name with up to half the teachers being replaced. [...]
Congressional candidate Rory Lancman recently stood in the shadows of a shuttered Social Security office and called for the program to be saved both locally and nationally. Lancman was joined by colleague Assemblymember Cathy Nolan in front of the closed Social Security office on Myrtle Avenue, which shut its doors last year. “This closed Social [...]
Kids in a crowded Queens neighborhood will have more room to expand their minds when a new school opens in Ridgewood — though they will have to wait three years. More than 100 parents attended a public hearing on Tuesday, April 10 held by Community Board 5’s education committee at P.S. 305 on Seneca Avenue, [...]
“It can’t happen, it just can’t happen,” said Assemblymember Cathy Nolan as she shook her head at the thought of her alma mater, Grover Cleveland High School, closing its doors. A similar scenario 35 years ago helped launch Nolan’s political aspirations. In the mid-70s, during the city’s fiscal crisis, there was a push to shut [...]
More than 1,000 supporters packed Grover Cleveland High School’s auditorium to have their voices heard by Department of Education (DOE) officials. And as each of the more than 50 speakers stepped to the microphone, they made one thing clear — closing the school is not an option. Grover Cleveland is one of 26 high schools [...]
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