Rudy Giuliani celebrated victory with Claire Shulman ... both were big winners in the
November municipal election ... Rudy spoke to the Tribune, outlining his goals and
initiatives for New York City for the next four years... and the post-election Tribune
examined the races and issues we voted on ...
The Tribune let Queens residents "in" on a Postal secret ... in
"Mr. Zip Zaps Queens," Jeremy Olshan examined the disappearance of Queens’
communities from the postal service map ... the NYC Marathon ran through Queens - 
again ... more than
2,500 Queensites ran in the annual 26.5 mile trek through the boroughs ... we named the
front-runners and told their stories ...
Assemblyman Mark Weprin joined the political battle to stop the proposed creation of a
High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane on the Long Island Expressway in eastern Queens ... Flushing
Community Board District Manager Reggie Colletta was chosen by Claire Shulman to replace
James "Buz" O’Rourke as Director of Constituent Affairs and Liaison with
the city’s uniformed services ... and a Tribune article applauded improvements
in quality of life and plummeting crime along the Roosevelt Avenue Corridor in Jackson
Heights, Elmhurst and Corona ...
We talked "Queens Business" in a November Trib Special Section ...
three "notorious" Baysiders were arrested on a variety of drug charges, and City
Councilman Archie Spigner bowed-out of the race for Floyd Flake’s soon-to-be vacated
seat ...
Corona School Board Member Perry Buckley resigned from the panel ... Buckley confessed
to murdering his mistress and then visiting the body 12 days later, in a storage room
where he hid the corpse ... residents balked at additional flights at Queens’
airports ... and officials promised - again - to make Queens Boulevard safer for
pedestrians ...
Claire Shulman, Gary Ackerman and Mark Weprin offered readers their time-tested recipes
for a tasty Thanksgiving ... a rush hour subway train collided with a train in a tunnel
underneath Steinway Street in Astoria ... a preliminary probe pointed to human error as
the cause ... Detectives in Jackson Heights arrested the suspected gunman in the murder of
police Sgt. Walker Fitzgerald ... and Tribune graphic artist Ray Gruenfelder
married his long-time sweetheart in November...
