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← How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants? Are Employers Free from Liability When Using Staffing Agencies to Terminate Employees?
Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
Companies often find that staffing agencies are valuable resources for helping them fill temporary or permanent positions and for handling human resources issues. However, recently, an outside staf...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 15, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the ...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: JANUARY 2015
Jan 14, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
January 2014 Queens NY Market Update  The pace of existing home sales increased in December, but remained below that in the same month of the previous year. Home prices declined as we moved in to t...
Negligence of Oregon Hospital Led to Wrongful Death of Patient
Jan 12, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
Author:  Mark H. Sackstein, Esq. All it takes is one small mistake for a disaster to occur. No matter how much research is done when choosing a hospital, it is impossible to predict a situation suc...
Matching Workouts With the Results You Want
Jan 10, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard friends complain about not getting the results they want, despite how much energy they’re putting into their workout.  People who want bigger muscles go t...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 08, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 78 78 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the way...
Immersed in ancient times; the performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. A review.
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 128 128 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Imagine being immersed in an ancient world, with colossal stone columns, palaces and images of deities, a marvelous music surrounding you and, thank God, no ce...
What to Eat Before Your Workout
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 108 108 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy Fueling up before a workout is the best thing you can do for your body.  But it’s important to eat the  right  things at the  right  time.  Eating too far in advance of your workout ...
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 105 105 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy  So you’ve already heard that you should stretch before you work out, but did you know that some types of stretching can be more harmful than helpful?  The American Council on Exerci...
From "Lost Side Of Suburbia" to "Poptropica," An Exclusive Interview with Artist Kory Merritt
Dec 29, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 135 135 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Kory Merritt started cartooning and illustrating while attending SUNY Brockport. His weekly comic strip, Brockport Chronicled, won the John Locher Memorial Awa...

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Tree on Juniper Boulevard Noth in Middle Village
Tornado Hits Queens and Brooklyn
Traffic Snarled, Airport Delays, LIRR Stops
Sep 16, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 68 68 recommendations | email to a friend
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On the ninth anniversary of 9/11, families gathered at a candlelight vigil in Juniper Valley Park at Middle Village. (Photo by Dawn Lim)
9/11 memorial in Juniper Park somber, yet hopeful
Local residents gathered in Juniper Valley Park to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11. The feeling in the air was one of sadness and great respect for those who gave their lives on t...
Sep 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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A child and his father place a flag in the ground for a firefighter who was killed on September 11.
Nine years after the tragedy
Maspeth remembers firefighters, residents who died on 9/11
Sep 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
09/06/2010 - 09/12/2010
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Maspeth Kiwanis President Nunzio Russo, Selfhelp Maspeth Senior Center Members Olga, Camille Arenare, Evelyn Matteo and St. Mary’s Vice President of Development Jan Mittan.
'Sew' thoughtful: seniors/students donate handmade dolls to hospital
At a time when many healthcare facilities are strapped for resources, every little bit counts. Olga Demko gives back the best way she knows how; for the last five years, she has sewn and stuffed fa...
Sep 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 38 38 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police blotter
08/30/2010 - 09/05/2010
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Paola Belotti with her Maspeth mural of a Tuscan landscape.
Mural brings Tuscany to a Maspeth alley
When Paola Belotti attended a barbecue that was hosted in the alleyway behind Maspeth Discount Liquors some years back, she was distracted by the graffiti covering the surrounding walls, particular...
Aug 31, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Maspeth man's death ruled an accident
Family member speaks: Jaffe wasn't one for suicide
Aug 31, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
08/24/2010 - 08/29/2010
Aug 31, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
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German Vazquez, 26, delivery driver from Ridgewood.
Queens, Brooklyn residents voice opinion on Islamic Cultural Center
Voices supporting and opposing construction of an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero made headlines this month. On Sunday morning, thousands of protesters from both side...
Aug 27, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 55 55 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stranded train commuters on eastbound trains that stopped at Jamaica Station wait outside the station.
LIRR lines paralyzed by signal damage
Ten out of 11 of railroad branches were suspended on Monday
Aug 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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The new Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal at the Myrtle-Wycoff Avenue subway station.
MTA opens $10M Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal
Will improve subway and bus transfers at Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenue
Aug 25, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
08/16/2010 - 08/23/2010
Aug 24, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg was joined by other elected officials to announce plans to install 1,500 pedestrian countdown signals across the city.
Crossing busy streets will no longer be guesswork
City to install countdown signals on dangerous streets
Aug 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elected officials, friends and colleagues stand in front of the Emerald Green arborvitae tree that has been planted in memory of Bill DeCota.
The late Bill DeCota honored with memorial tree
Port Authority director of Aviation lives on at the Queens Botanical Garden
Aug 17, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
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Balloon crew draws closer to North America

In Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 photo provided by the Two Eagles Balloon Team, Troy Bradley of New Mexico and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia set off from Saga, Japan, shortly before 6:30 a.m. JST Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in their quest to pilot their helium-filled balloon from Japan in a bid to reach North America and break two major records en route. in their quest to pilot their helium-filled balloon from Japan to North America and break two major records en route. The attempt will put them on course to break a distance record of 5,208 miles (8,381 kilometers). They also want to break the flight-duration record of 137 hours set in 1978 when Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman made the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight. (AP Photo/Troy Bradley, Two Eagles Balloon Team)ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The pilots of a helium-filled balloon on a daring flight across the Pacific Ocean drew closer to North America as they attempt to break two world records.


2015-01-29 03:43:47 -0500
Royal Dutch Shell reports 57 percent drop in net income
LONDON (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe's largest oil company by market value, said Thursday that fourth quarter net income fell 57 percent to $773 million and that it would cap spending this year in response to falling oil prices.
2015-01-29 03:42:31 -0500
Wistful, humorous Romney looks back as he ponders '16

Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney visits with diners at Little Dooey, a barbecue restaurant in Starkville, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Romney hasn't officially declared himself a presidential candidate again, but the 2012 Republican nominee looked and sounded like one during the stop in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mitt Romney sounds like a presidential candidate. Except when he doesn't.


2015-01-29 03:39:02 -0500