In 1970, music was spun on 33 1/3 RPMs and the Queens Tribune began the community spin on the news and a tradition of journalism that reports on the good, the bad, the profound and the every day on your block and in the section of Queens you proudly call your neighborhood.

Thirty-three years later, music is pulsing through internet cables in the form of MP3s and our collective stacks of “vinyl” have been relegated to specialty stores or retro recordings by new bands. But the lessons and the news that has built the character of the Tribune and the borough still sound smoothly and evenly through our lives and our history. What follows is a compellation of what we found when we dusted off our records, cracked open our bound volumes, and relived a third of a century.

Join us for a spin . . . .