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A Ride In The Park: Bikers Bring The Mountains To Queens --
September 4, 3:23 PM
Just a few short years ago the woodland trails weaving through Cunningham Park – lying dormant and littered with the evidence of neglect – would be the last destination on the minds of local sportsmen.
Jerry Emerson, a mountain biker and the co-owner of Peak Bicycle Pro Shop in Douglaston, remembers...
Queens On The Rise: Slated Hunters Point Project Draws Protest --
August 21, 11:19 AM
Massive redevelopment on the Long Island City waterfront has begun to transform the Queens skyline from a rabble of old factories to a wall of shiny high-rise apartment buildings.
Now the City is going at it again. The next piece of land to be built on will be Hunter’s Point South, which is slated...
Willets Happen?: Iron Triangle Workers Say They Have Nowhere To Go --
August 14, 10:50 AM
Blight, wasteland, disaster, disgrace – they’re just a few of the many harsh words that have been used to describe Willets Point in recent years.
But for many at the “Iron Triangle,” the words are superficial.
Here, descriptions like community and family resound among the approximately 1,700...
Community Love: Flushing Library Helps Immigrants Adapt --
August 8, 1:19 PM
With the national immigration debate long in deadlock – a partisan shouting match devoid of compromise or reasonable solutions – it’s hard to find people without strong and varying opinions on the subject.
So when Christine Fisher posed a simple question to her class at the Queens Library at Flushing...
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