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St. Stan's Rosary Alter Society Annual Champagne Brunch
Feb 25, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 86 86 recommendations | email to a friend
Sunday, March 30, 2014  12:00 PM Noon St. Stan's - 57-15 61st Street, Maspeth 11378 Delicious Food - Great Prizes - Unlimited Champagne!  Call the Rectory for tickets, which are $17.00.  718-326-21...
A Step-by-Step Guide on Changing Home Door Locks
Feb 24, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 570 570 recommendations | email to a friend
Moving to a new apartment or a newly-acquired home sure is exciting and thrilling for a lot of reasons. You are finally in your own place! While moving to your own place sure is a thrilling experie...
Identity Theft Prevention!
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 134 134 recommendations | email to a friend
On Sunday, March 2nd the Crime Prevention Section will host it's fourth Identity Theft Prevention Event at Gateway Center, 501 Gateway Drive, Brooklyn, NY from 10AM-2PM.  WE have partnered with Lio...
Timing Is Everything
Feb 21, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 380 380 recommendations | email to a friend
     While I was living in Nashville, I was continually learning about different plants and flowers that were native to the region. As I walked through a field one day, I spotted a cluster of daint...
Resorts World Casino Hosts Mid-Winter Food Tasting Benefitting City Harvest
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 152 152 recommendations | email to a friend
Join Resorts World Casino New York City Wednesday, February 26, 2014, from 7:00 p.m-9:00 p.m at the Mid-Winter Taste for City Harvest, a special tasting event featuring food, wine, cocktails and ce...
Protect your company from discrimination complaints and lawsuits
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 177 177 recommendations | email to a friend
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) reported it obtained a record $372.1 million in monetary relief for victims of private sector employment discrimination in year ending 2013...
Interview to author Tony Napoli.
Feb 18, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 192 192 recommendations | email to a friend
Recently I published a review on the popular book “My Father, My Don,” A Son’s Journey from Organized Crime to Sobriety, and I am now pleased to offer our readers an interview to the author, Tony N...
FREE Dental Emergency Day!
Feb 17, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 186 186 recommendations | email to a friend
February is Dental Health Month.  To promote Dental Awareness and to offer help to the community, Dr. Khaimov is sponsoring a FREE Dental Emergency Treatment Day on THURSDAY, FEB. 27TH, 2014 10AM-4...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: February 2014
Feb 13, 2014 | 3 3 comments | 230 230 recommendations | email to a friend
February 2014 Market Update Homes sales were down in January from the previous month, likely a result of the severely cold weather which affected many markets more than in typical years. Inventory ...
Party Rentals in The Big Apple: Where Does One Start?
Feb 12, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 217 217 recommendations | email to a friend
Planning out a first rate event is in a totally different league from preparing a routine party. No matter what the occasion, if you really want people to be impressed, you’ll need to go all out an...

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I demand an apology
Dear Editor: As a candidate for the 38th Assembly District I demand an apology from Assemblyman Mike Miller after he stated that my recent endorsement from Citizens Union was hypocritical.  Assembl...
Oct 28, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 343 343 recommendations | email to a friend
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City right to nix paid Sick Leave bill
The Queens Chamber of Commerce fully supports New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s decision to oppose the Paid Sick Leave bill at this juncture. Her opposition to the bill is evidence th...
Oct 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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R.I.P. Borys Chikivchuk
Dear Editor: We are very sorry to learn about the passing of co-owner Borys Chikivchuk of Cafe 67 in Forest Hills and Cafe Bora Bora in Rego Park. Borys exemplified a dedicated individual, and a lo...
Oct 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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MTA still a bargain
Dear Editor: Future fare increases are inevitable due to inflation complimented by increasing costs of labor, power, fuel, other supplies and materials necessary to run any transit system. MTA serv...
Oct 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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Paid Sick Leave bill a job killer
Dear Editor, As President of Allied Personnel Services Inc., a staffing firm, I strongly agree with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Mayor Michael Bloomberg's position against legislation r...
Oct 19, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Missing my candy store pals
Dear Editor: Back in the the 30's and '40's my brother Nat had the candy store (Lee's sweet shop) next door to the Maspeth Theatre, the only movie theater in Maspeth, on the corner of 69th Place an...
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cleanup crews delivered after 9/16 storm
Dear Editor: The Parks Department, private contractors and volunteers should be commended for the good job they did to restore Juniper Valley park and surrounding areas devastated by the storm that...
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Queens Farm has become a slaughterhouse
Dear Editor: I am 24 years old. Throughout my life I have visited the Queens County Farm. There are pictures of me in nursery school petting the pigs and turkeys. It was where I (and many other sch...
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo vulnerable?
Dear Editor: Allow me to add to "This must be how they do things in Buffalo" (Pol Position- October 5).  Has Democrat State Attorney General and Governor wanna-be Andrew Cuomo morphed into Rick Laz...
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anti-gay attack deplorable
Dear Editor, Now more anti-gay attacks have occurred, and this time in the Bronx. I am appalled and outraged over this nefarious and egregious act by this gang of hate-mongers. There is far too muc...
Oct 13, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Old-time Maspeth on display
Dear readers, 1940s-era photos of Maspeth are currently on display inside of Maspeth Federal Savings Bank on 69th Street and Grand Avenue. The exhibit is called “Maspeth in the 1940's.” The exhibit...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Sign' of bad times
Dear Editor: The $20 million Maurice Avenue reconstruction project that replaced water and sewer pipes was completed in June. I noticed when exiting eastbound off the Long Island Expressway that th...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rigtht on, Carl!
Dear editor: I would like to applaud Carl Paladino for standing up for his young daughter. Carl Palindino was having a shouting match with a reporter for sending people over to his daughter's house...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Checks and balances
Dear Editor: Republican/Conservative Party candidate Harry Wilson for State Comptroller makes sense.  State government has always had members of different political parties holding key statewide of...
Oct 05, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Turner needs support, not civic lesson
Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in response to Mr. Seltzer’s “ Bob Turner Needs a Civics Lesson” (Letters, September 16). It seems to me after reading Mr. Seltzer’s letter that he is for free...
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Russia may halt US inspections over sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits city facilities in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. The opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics is held in Sochi on Friday. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is considering a freeze of U.S. military inspections under arms control treaties in retaliation to Washington's decision to halt military cooperation with Russia, news reports said Saturday.


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China-bound Malaysian jet vanishes with 239 aboard

A Chinese relative of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane speaks to the media outside a holding room at a hotel in Beijing Saturday, March 8, 2014. Search teams across Southeast Asia scrambled on Saturday to find a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 with 239 people on board that disappeared from air traffic control screens over waters between Malaysia and Vietnam early that morning. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Southeast Asian nations dispatched ships and planes to scour the seas between Malaysia and Vietnam on Saturday in search of a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared with 239 people on board.


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Russian troops reported on move again in Crimea

A Ukrainian officer stands outside the gate of a military base at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine, Saturday, March 8, 2014. A Ukrainian officer at the military base said that pro-Russia soldiers crashed a truck through its gates late on Friday in an attempt to take it over. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Russia on Saturday was reported to be reinforcing its military presence in Crimea as Moscow's foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine's new authorities, whom he dismissed as puppets.


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