Queens Borough President Claire Shulman – along with Assemblywoman Nettie
Mayersohn and Councilman Morton Povman – welcomed Rudy Giuliani to Borough Hall. The
three announced support for Rudy’s reelection to Gracie Mansion ... school bells rang
in the Queens semester with 
additional security guards on hand at each school, and residents at the
Vista Towers Condominium fled the Flushing complex as the structure began to crumble ...
Rudy Giuliani stopped by Elmhurst Hospital for the opening of a new Fire Dept./EMS
Station ... and the Tribune showed off Floyd Flake’s brand-spanking new,
block-long cathedral in Jamaica ...
The Tribune asked "Who Should Own The Airports?" after Rudy Giuliani
called for a city takeover of LaGuardia and Kennedy ... "Women In Business"
threw a spotlight on successful females who rule their "roost" ... nine female
professionals were profiled in the section, including the Tribune’s own Marie
Bouderau, who keeps the administrative wheels running smoothly at Queens’ best weekly
newspaper ...
Tennis aficionados from all over gathered in September to cut the ribbon on the new
USTA Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Flushing Meadows ... could the U.S. Open (and Pete
Sampras) be far behind? ... the first day of school meant hitting the books on wheels to
youngsters who were assigned seats in trailers ... officials at the Queens Library read
the fine print in a city lawsuit and decided to compromise with City Comptroller Alan
Hevesi in his quest to open the library’s books ...
The U.S. Open was in full swing, and USTA officials announced their donation to
Flushing Meadows Park – an $8 million endowment for the greenspace ... newshound
Jeremy Olshan examined a series of Queens "miracles" ... and the Tribune
Action Desk conquered queries and complaints under the watchful eye of new Tribune
reporter Jennifer Maurici ...
The founder of the Alley Pond Environmental Center died at St. Vincent’s Hospital
after he was struck by a taxicab ... John Kominski, 52, lived all his life in Flushing and
spent 19 years working on environmental causes ... the primary results were in ... voters
put Queens incumbents into the November race ... and Special Victims detectives nabbed a
sex abuser who struck at least 10 times in Bayside and eastern Queens ... his favorite
"targets" were teenage girls ...
Queens detectives probed the murder of an off-duty cop in Jackson Heights ... nurses at
St. John’s Hospital in Elmhurst picketed the medical center because of
"inadequate staff" ... and a ragtag team of pintsize softball players in Dutch
Kills stunned the sports world by walking away with a league championship after rising
from the dust – where they had settled after losing all season long ...
A bomb threat to School Board 25 in Flushing prompted board presidential candidate
Pauline Chu to withdraw from the race ... cops arrested a Corona man who admitted he
participated in events that led to the shooting death of off-duty police Sergeant Walker
Fitzgerald in Jackson Heights ... and the Tribune asked the question: "Do We
Need A Constitutional Convention?"...
An Appellate court nixed Rudy Giuliani’s plans to sell city-owned hospitals to
private interests ... a 12-year-old boy saved the life of a drowning lifeguard in a pool
at the Windsor Park apartment complex ... and a seven-alarm blaze ravaged a portion of the
Steinway Street shopping district in Astoria ... three-hundred firefighters battled the
blaze that destroyed seven stores ... and the wait was over! ... the Tribune’s
annual "Guide To Queens" was hot off the presses in September... "Eye On
Queens" answered questions concerning government, schools, public safety, etc. in
Queens ... it’s the annual "Information Please" roadmap through the borough
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