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CELF and NYC Department of Education Kick Off Pilot Program Helping Teachers Build Sustainability Concepts Into Overall Curricula. (PRWEB) June 28, 2012 The Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), in partnership with the New York City Department of Education (NYC DoE), today kicked off a pilot program to help New York City (NYC) public schools bring […]

FedEx broke ground on its $56 million distribution center in Long Island City on June 22. The 140,000-square-foot automated distribution center is scheduled to open in August 2013. “This is an encouraging trend of businesses moving to Long Island City,” Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan, Queens) said. The new facility, which has been in the works […]

QUEENS — Police are investigating the killing of a 27-year-old woman who was found with severe head trauma inside an Astoria apartment Tuesday night, the NYPD said. Cops discovered the body of Danielle Thomas at 28-25 33rd St. about 7:30 p.m., after police received a report of an unconscious female at that location. Thomas was […]

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QUEENS — Police are investigating the killing of a 27-year-old woman who was found with severe head trauma inside an Astoria apartment Tuesday night, the NYPD said. Cops discovered the body of Danielle Thomas at 28-25 33rd St. about 7:30 p.m., after police received a report of an unconscious female at that location. Thomas was […]

The still-grieving daughter of a Long Island City Good Samaritan who died during a brutal attack by a homeless drug addict, told the court last week that she feels saddened for the man convicted in the senseless attack.Doris Nowillo Suda, 40, shocked the court with her Victim Impact Statement at the sentencing of Eric Cherry, […]

June 27, 2012, 1:12 p.m. The 2012 sign buoyantly crowning the stage was borrowed from another graduation. The school’s bachata-infused theme song — which a new graduate belted out in Spanish — had made its debut only weeks earlier. And the yearbook, which painstakingly clocked everything from the school’s Crazy Hair Day to Pajama Day, […]

Andrew Garfield urges students to fight bullying by supporting one another at the Albert Shanker School in Long Island City. New Yorkers proved Tuesday what we already knew — that they are Amazin’! They came out in droves for the “Be Amazing, Stand Up and Volunteer” events, sponsored by Columbia Pictures and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” […]

14 hours ago by JohnThomas Didymus – 8 comments Members of the Ocean X team exploring the alleged “UFO-shaped” object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say that their equipment stops working when they approach within 200 meters of the mysterious object.

LONG ISLAND CITY — Some 18 Queens Library branches that were slated to close and hundreds of employees were spared the ax under a budget agreement between the Bloomberg administration and the City Council that restored most of the proposed cuts. “Layoffs have been averted. Every library in every community will remain open at least […]