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Graffiti, Burglaries Head List Of 108th Precinct Complaints

The 108th Police Precinct Community Council opened a new season of monthly meetings after a two-month summer break. After the standard question-andanswer part of the meeting had begun, Council President Diane Ballek suggested to 108th Precinct ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  7 Oct 2009

Chamber Honors Queens Business

On Thursday, September 24 the Queens Chamber of Commerce's dinner highlighted the chamber's 17th Annual Business Persons of the Year awards. The event also marked the occasion of the group's 98th anniversary. QCC Executive Director Jack Friedman ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  30 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Consolidated Edison, Inc.,  Helen Marshall,  Economic Development Corporation,  HSBC,  Philadelphia Phillies

Landmarked Pavilion Deteriorates

The New York State Pavilion, constructed as an exhibition site at the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows- Corona Park and largely left to decompose after the fair closed in 1965, has been declared a landmark by the New York State Board for Historic ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  30 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Robert Moses,  Helen Marshall,  Adrian Benepe,  Philip Johnson,  Robert F. Wagner

Chamber's Health Town Hall Finds More Questions Than Answers

On September 16, the day when the first of the proposed healthcare legislative bills was introduced in the United States Senate, the Queens Chamber of Commerce held a meeting to address what it termed the healthcare emergency. Opening the meeting, QCC ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Aetna Inc.,  U.S. Senate,  Dan Miller,  Cadillac

Parking Summonses Lead At Sunnyside Chamber

The first Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce luncheon of the new season officially featured an address about energy efficiency, delivered by a representative from Con Edison. But the meeting was swept away by two speakers concerned with the issue of parking ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  16 Sep 2009

National Night Out Against Crime

The 115th Precinct National Night Out Against Crime festivities were held in Northern Playground on Northern Boulevard, across the street from the precinct stationhouse in Jackson Heights. Three singers, one of them doing disk jockey duty at a ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  12 Aug 2009
Related Topics: George Dixon

With One Exception, Crime Declines In 108th Precinct

The 108th Police Precinct Community Council's June meeting at Sunnyside Community Services was brief but substantial. Two Cop of the Month awards were conferred; a crime report that indicated a further decline in offenses, with one glaring exception, ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  8 Jul 2009

Maloney Addresses LIC BID Breakfast Meeting

by Thomas Cogan Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, who qualifies as a pioneering figure in the history of business improvement districts, addressed the fifth annual breakfast of the Long Island City Business Improvement District in late June.  Maloney ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  2 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Senate,  Ben Bernanke

WM Proposes Solid Waste Station In LIC

Waste Management (WM), a compacted waste disposal service, is seeking a permit from the city to build a solid waste transfer station in Long Island City on Review Avenue, near Newtown Creek. The proposal for the Review Avenue facility would effect a ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Waste Management, Inc.

Sunnyside Chamber Hears Of Business Services, Census

At its June luncheon, the Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce welcomed Robert W. Walsh, who for nearly seven years has been commissioner of the city Department of Small Business Services. He spoke about real and hypothetical small businesses that are ...

From THOMAS COGAN, The Queens Gazette,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Frank Sinatra,  Tony Bennett,  Census Bureau

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