From Bayside Patch:Fire officials are calling the burning of two parked vehicles just after midnight on Sunday "suspicious."One Acura and one BMW caught fire while parked near Fort Totten, and were reported at around 12:15 a.m., according to an FDNY of... »
From the Times Ledger:State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) has two less challengers after Sen. Toby Stavisky (D-Whitestone) decided to run in another district and former Sen. Frank Padavan opted not to relive a heated previous campaign for his old seat.“... »
From Bayside Patch:Neighborhood activists have become increasingly frustrated with the NYC Parks Dept., because though $1.3 million dollars was allocated to build to build permanent washrooms in 2005 by then Councilman Tony Avella, D-Bayside, that mone... »
From Times Ledger:Nearly 1,000 people crammed into North Shore Towers in Little Neck Thursday night to listen to a panel discuss about the skyrocketing property assessment values the city assigned to condos this year and last as tensions flared between... »
From the NY Post:Jeffrey Gottlieb, a late entry into the hotly contested Democratic primary to replace Rep. Gary Ackerman in Queens’ 6th District, was charged with setting a 1971 arson fire in his Flushing apartment.The blaze destroyed the home and dam... »
From Bayside Patch:Long-time Community Board 11 Chairman Jerry Iannece has launched his campaign for the District 25 Assembly seat.Iannece, a Bayside Hills Democrat who previously ran for City Council in 2001 and 2009, said he has been approached by Qu... »
From the Times Ledger:Civic leaders are watching a proposed spa for College Point after a notorious hot sheets motel in Kew Gardens Hills owned by the developer was shut down last week in relation to prostitution charges.The Queens district attorney an... »
From Crains:Since announcing a bid for an open Queens congressional seat last month, Assemblywoman Grace Meng has largely kept her last name out of the three-way Democratic primary race. Campaign signs, placards and logos belonging to the Flushing poli... »
From Crains:Public transportation, restaurants, bars and parks have all gone smokeless. Now one of the earliest and most vocal advocates of those bans in New York has his eye on the final prize: a prohibition on smoking in all multi-family residences.R... »
From the Queens Courier:The Queens GOP leadership made a bold move Saturday at their March Executive Committee meeting by endorsing City Councilmember Dan Halloran to run in the newly created 6th Congressional District. Party leaders strongly felt that... »
From Douglaston Patch:Having deferred Congressional ambitions, State. Sen. Tony Avella, D-Bayside, announced on Monday that he will run to be re-elected to the state Senate.A Republican contender for the seat has yet to emerge, but Queens GOP leaders a... »
From Douglaston Patch:Former northeast Queens assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza has joined the Huffington Post’s Expert Panel as a blogger.Carrozza, who will offer advice on elder law and estate planning for Huff Post Money, served 14 years on the st... »
Proposed Senate District 11 - February 2012Major changes to already-gerrymandered maps making them MORE gerrymandered (which we thought was impossible) occurred between the initial proposals made in February and those submitted by the Republican State ... »
From the Times Ledger:A northeast Queens lawmaker has made a list of derelict or vacant properties around the area that he wants to clean up, including a Flushing home owned by Bank of America that was being used as an illegal apartment. But there is o... »
From the Times Ledger:Police from the 111th Precinct said they were aware of reports from residents that a number of dealers were selling drugs in Bayside’s Marie Curie Park and narcotics detectives have been conducting an investigation.The park, on 21... »
