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Local Leaders Call For Calm After Raids in Flushing

John Choe, co-president of the Mitchell- Linden Civic Association, and Democratic District Leader Martha Flores-Vazquez reacted to Monday's raids on homes in two Flushing neighborhoods by New York City and federal law enforcement agencies with a joint ...

From LIZ GOFF AND LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Al-Qaeda

Before We Met Is Memoirist's Memoir

Mere facts do not begin to describe the complex, complicated, multilingual and multitalented person who is Elizabeth Freeman Uhlig. In November 2000 this newspaper carried a review of Elizabeth Uhlig's Grandmother Mary, the story of the author's ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: C. W. Post,  Anna Pavlova

LIRR Closes Ticket Windows

Ticket office windows will close at 20 Long Island Rail Road stations, including Douglaston, Floral Park, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens and Little Neck in Queens, starting Wednesday, August 19. LIRR Passenger Services Department employees will be at the ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  19 Aug 2009
Related Topics: LIRR,  Long Island Rail Road

11 Queens Post Offices May Close

Cuts in staffing, removal of collection boxes and a twocent increase in the price of stamps still leave the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), better known as the Post Office, with a potential loss of nearly $7 billion this fiscal year. Efforts to offset the ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  5 Aug 2009

'An Italian American Story' Is Daughter's Tribute To Dad

During World War II, Bernado and Orazio, two soldiers in the Italian Army, were roommates in a military hospital. A few years after the war, Oraizo's widow, Giuseppa, her parents and her younger children found themselves living next door to Bernardo ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  29 Jul 2009

LIRR Runs Anniversary Train

The Long Island Rail Road offered a unique opportunity for customers and rail fans on Saturday, July 25 to retrace part of the line's original route from Queens to Greenport as part of the line's 175th anniversary celebration. Two hundred forty ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: LIRR,  Long Island Rail Road,  Nelson Rockefeller

Nature's Chemists Gives Customers Choices

While he studied for his Pharm. D—the equivalent of a doctoral degree—Michael Polise always chose to take every elective in alternative medications that the six-year course at St. John's University offered. Last July he and his brother, Vincenzo ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  22 Jul 2009

Three Queens Synagogues Named As Historic Places

BY LINDA J. WILSON Three synagogues in Queens: the Astoria Center of Israel, the Free Synagogue of Flushing and the The Astoria Center of Israel (ACI), 27-35 Crescent St., Astoria, was founded in 1921 when the members of Congregation Mishkan Israel ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Peter Stuyvesant,  William Cooper

JFK Airport' Tells Story Of U.S. Commercial Aviation

On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Shell Hydrogen, along with Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and General Motors announced the opening of the first hydrogen fueling station in New York City, part of the world's first metropolitan cluster of stations ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  15 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,  General Motors

1939-1940 New York World's Fair Looks At The Past

For Bill Cotter and many of his generation, the name "New York World's Fair" conjures images of the 1964-65 event at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. People old enough to remember its precursor, the 1939-40 World's Fair, held on the same site, however, ...

From LINDA J. WILSON, The Queens Gazette,  1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: General Motors,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  United Nations

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