Mayor Rudolph Giuliani pelted the Port Authority for its poor performance in handling snow removal at LaGuardia and JFK International Airports….  

Queens mourned the death of Joseph Crowley, Sr., a civic activist, attorney and father of Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley Jr,….

Officials rallied to keep John Bowne High School open after local civics called for its closure based on security and safety concerns… The Earth shook in Long Island City on Jan. 17, when a 2.5 Richter scale earthquake knocked photos from walls at 7:34 a.m….

A Queens College alumnus who gave the school $4.3 million for a new Biology Research Center on the Flushing campus asked for his money back. Dr. Bernard Salick said years’ long delays in the project were “embarrassing.”… Queens straphangers voiced their hope to derail the new “V” subway line…Mets hero Tommy Agee died of a heart attack at age 58….

Queens Borough President Claire Shulman gave her last State of the Borough Address. Shulman, like most of the City Council, was preparing to pack up, forced out by term limits….

Ten families were left out in the cold in Briarwood, as city officials tried to determine why five houses in the area were sinking…Police were out in force on Queens Boulevard, ticketing speeders and jaywalkers….  

The Tribune created a super stir when it ran an investigative piece on Aug. 9 that discovered a real-life Parker family living at Spider-Man’s (aka Peter Parker’s) Queens address.

The Tribune shook the world of politics with a front page “Wanted Poster” featuring photos of the seven Queens City Council members who supported a plan to overturn term limits. Voters said yes to term limits twice. The front page blasted the pols “for disregarding the will of the people”….

Mayoral candidate Public Advocate Mark Green called for increased safety measures on Queens Boulevard, following the death of a 14-year-old Forest Hills girl on the deadly strip.

The threatened term limits repeal was killed in a City Council committee….Plans for a mini-mall were released by a private developer who purchased the Flushing site where the Wendy’s massacre happened one year earlier….

Cleanup crews worked to remove oil from the shoreline of Little Neck Bay as officials looked for a cause…The New York State Health Department threatened to shut down an Elmhurst adult home charged with performing unnecessary prostate exams on residents….

The Tribune hosted each mayoral and City Council candidate at its Fresh Meadows headquarters for a sit-down on issues and answers…Civics balked at plans for the construction of an elementary school on the Queens College campus… The Tribune backed Board of Ed member Terri Thomson in April, when Borough President Claire Shulman requested Thomson’s resignation from the board….

A Forest Hills High School graduate took home a Pulitzer Prize for his poems… Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Borough President Claire Shulman proposed a change for 56 acres of junkyard in Flushing (near Shea Stadium) into a Queens Convention Center….

Police busted 95 people in Willets Point, charging them with dumping toxic fluids into Flushing Bay…A sting operation at area auto repair shops also shut down 25 “chop shops”….

The MTA announced plans to replace token booth clerks with MetroCard machines …The firm hired by the city to spray pesticides in Queens to protect it against its ‘2000’ West Nile outbreak was fined $1 million for improperly training employees and illegally selling pesticides….

The son of Borough President Claire Shulman died at age 45, the victim of heart failure…June ended on a tragic note, when three Queens firefighters lost their lives at a Father’s Day blaze in Astoria….  

Mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg met with Forest Hills residents, while 107 hopefuls filed to run for City Council seats…The family of Flushing key maker Tony Avena continued his battle with the MTA to keep the 80-year-old family business at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue…The Elks Lodge went on the market in July….

The Tribune featured New York City’s vision of the 2012 Olympic Games in Queens…The Tribune discovered that a real-life Parker family lives at the Forest Hills address listed in comic books as the address of “Spider-Man,” aka Peter Parker…  

The Tribune reported on 20 toxic sites in Queens that were not funded for clean-up…Three detectives at the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst delivered a baby in the back seat of a cab….

Sept. 11. We stood on the Queens shoreline and stared at the images across the river. As the planes crashed into the mighty towers, we wept and prayed for the innocent victims, trapped in the fear and flames. And then the world, as we knew it, changed forever. The terrorist attack shut down Queens’ highways, airports, subways and buses. The Primary election was cancelled. Shea Stadium was turned into an outdoor warehouse of donated clothing and equipment for rescue crews….

The family of Tony Avena lost a court battle to stay in business in Flushing. The court gave the 80-year-old business until the end of 2001 to pack and move out…A plainclothes police sergeant cheated death in a shoot-out near Shea Stadium. The cop was saved by his bulletproof vest….

The Tribune published an exclusive interview with the Queens publisher of an Afghani newspaper… Former NYC cop Bo Dietl gave the Tribune his “spin” on fighting terrorism….

Helen Marshall was voted our new borough president…Mike Bloomberg began his first day as mayor-elect by greeting Queensites in Kew Gardens….

We were just beginning to cope with the terrorist attack when a plane fell from the skies over Belle Harbor. American Airlines Flight 587 exploded in mid-air, tore apart and slammed into homes. More than 267 people were killed in the crash, including seven people on the ground….

Claire Shulman’s dream of a “new” Queens Hospital Center came true in December, when a new $147 million state-of-the-art medical facility opened it’s doors…

The Tribune told the story of a Queens man who waited one full month to bury his parents – victims of Flight 587 – after City medical examiners identified the couple. The Trib interviewed, via the internet, First Lt. Charles Hermosa, a Queens Marine who was serving in Afghanistan.