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Townhouse Antiques Closes
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
Bellport, New York, May 20, 2013 -- “This is a sad day for Townhouse Antiques.  After 12 years, we are adding our name to the ever growing list of antique shops closing on Long Island.  The recessi...
Madonna's work at Brady Court
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/ugly-battle-behind-peaceful-facade-brady-court-co-ops-article-1.1338347
Tracy Towers Representation
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/tenants-cheer-bronx-judge-postpones-rent-increase-tracey-towers-complex-court-fight-rages-article-1.1152703
Off-the-clock Claims Are Subject to Wage and Hour Lawsuits
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Hans & Associates, P.C. Off-the-clock claims are one source of wage and hour lawsuits. In an off-the-clock claim, employees assert that the employer forced them to spend time working ...
Timing Is Everything
May 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 79 79 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 dain...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: May 2013
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
Queens NY Real Estate Market Update As the Queens housing market recovers we are seeing considerable increases in demand, resulting in a strong seller’s market in certain areas a...
New York City's Biggest Free Pet Adoption Event Ever Comes to Queens!
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
On June 1 st and June 2 nd , thousands of dogs and cats will be looking for their forever homes at New York City’s biggest pet adoption event ever – all for free. The Alliance for NYC’s Animals ...
Holy Roman Festival
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
May 15 - 19 175-20 74TH AVENUE, FRESH MEADOWS RIDES, GAMES, FOOD AND ENTERTAINMENT OPEN, WED THROUGH FRIDAY, 6PM-11PM SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 2PM — 11PM FREE PARKING AND ADMISSION PAY ONE LOW P...
Flea Market
May 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
FLEA MARKET Transfiguration Parish Hall - Maspeth Sunday, June 2nd, 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Vendors needed; please call 347-339-1362 Tables $25.00
FSLA Challenges ― How Does Overtime Work with a Fluctuating Work Week?
May 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
In recent years, the changes and complexities of wage and hour laws have made it difficult for small businesses to comply with regulations. Yet, with wage and hour lawsuits on the rise, small busi...

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Dina Rosenbloom, founder of Rattle & Mum
Imagine a progressive community-minded play space where children and their parents alike can bond over music, theater and other lives performance, in between classes and gym time. Dina Rosenbloom...
Feb 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Camille Newman, Entrepreneur
For plus-sized women, the fashion options are few and far between. Many designer brands only sell their plus-sized merchandise online. One exclusive Manhattan department store even moved its plus-s...
Jan 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Andrew Jackson, Executive Director of Langston Hughes Library
Andrew Jackson is man who’s all about Queens. Raised in Queens, he resides in Queens, works at the Queens Library and he recently authored a book about – you guessed it – Queens. Jackson is the exe...
Jan 18, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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Everett Hughes, Principal, J.H.S. 292
Everett Hughes has marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and gone out to dinner with Jackie Robinson. But if you ask Hughes to name his greatest accomplishment, he will surely say transforming J...
Jan 18, 2011 | 1 1 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
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David Eng, Record Producer
David Eng could be in Manhattan but he prefers Queens, particularly Flushing and Woodhaven. The record producer has made hits for names like Snow, Salt-N-Pepa, New York Dolls, Marky Mark and KISS....
Jan 11, 2011 | 3 3 comments | 22 22 recommendations | email to a friend
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Professor Matthew K. Gold
Students at the New York City College of Technology have a wealth of new technologies at their disposal and access to Brooklyn's historic waterfront. Now, for the first time, they can combine the t...
Jan 11, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anit Hora, Esthetician
Anit Hora, an that owns Veda Holistics in Williamsburg, received her training from the Aveda Institute in New York. But although that center gave her the professional training needed to start her ...
Jan 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 24 24 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alex Ewen, Co-Owner Neir's Tavern
Alex Ewen is a couple of things – a producer and one of the owners of the famed bar, Neir's Tavern in Woodhaven. Ewen, along with David Eng, Loycent Gordon and Andy Bigan own the bar that once se...
Jan 04, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kevin Joseph, Co-Executive Artistic Director, Purelements
Dance was Kevin Joseph’s ticket out of East New York in the 1980’s. Now it’s the reason he’s returned. Joseph and business partner Lakai Worrell are the co-executive artistic directors and founders...
Dec 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edward Owens, Cross-Country Runner
Edward Owens has a lot to be proud of. At 17, he is one of the fastest cross-country runners in the country. And to have that status just one year after he began cross-country running is a feat in ...
Dec 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gloria Rochester, QSCAN Founder
Gloria Rochester had not too long ago emigrated from Jamaica in 1973 when her fourth child was born. It was a time of joy like every other birth, but 18 months later, her daughter, Tyeisha, was dia...
Dec 14, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suzette LaValle, Boutique Owner
After a successful fashion career that took her to Paris and SoHo, style maven Suzette LaValle is reinventing herself in a Clinton Hill boutique. LaValle opened her clothes store earlier this year...
Dec 07, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Holly Tsang "Retiring" Community Editor
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Nov 30, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kaleena Ma, Co-owner of MK Vision Center
It’s not as if there aren’t already established optical businesses in Forest Hills. Kaleena Ma realizes this, but her family’s 30 years in the business and 7 optical stores also mean she knows all ...
Nov 16, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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David Greenhouse Founder, Greenhouse Holistic
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Nov 09, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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(Blank Headline Received)By Joe Brock MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nuradin Mohammed used to resent and fear the troops who swept past his fish stall in this northeast Nigerian city on the trail of Islamist insurgents Boko Haram. Now, for the first time, he thinks they may be on his side. "We are pleased the president has finally recognised our peril and we pray his plan works," Mohammed said, frying fish by the roadside as a crowd of young children looked on hungrily and trucks packed with troops rumbled past. ...


Sun May 26 05:01:53 UTC 2013

Two men inspect their damage house after two rockets hit their area in a Beirut suburbsBy Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of southern Beirut on Sunday and wounded several people, residents said, a day after the leader of Lebanese Shi'ite militant movement Hezbollah said his group would continue fighting in Syria until victory. It was the first attack to apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in neighboring Syria, which has sharply heightened Lebanon's own sectarian tensions. ...


Sun May 26 04:43:48 UTC 2013
BAGHDAD (AP) — Officials say a car bomb has hit a patrol in Mosul, one of three attacks in the northern Iraqi city that left five dead.
Sun May 26 04:39:55 UTC 2013