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Op-Ed | Improving New Yorkers’ quality of life block by block

Recently, I was with community leaders and senior officials in our administration on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, which is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in our city. It is where New Yorkers from all over the world come to live, work, raise their families, and strive for the American Dream. However, Roosevelt Avenue — a major thoroughfare with the 7 train running above it — has become a site […]

todayOctober 22, 2024

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MEOW! Calling cats, kittens & cat ladies to Village Halloween Fete

Halloween revelers will be in full feline fashion flair on Oct. 31 when the 51st annual Greenwich Village Halloween parade invites creative puppeteers, and costumiers to the biggest ghoul show in the nation. Meow is the theme of the carnival which begins at 7 p.m. from Manhattan’s Spring St. along Sixth Ave. to 16th St. offering a bewitching, spooky, jaw-dropping, spontaneous, masquerade of satirical perspectives. Actor Andre DeShields was recently […]

todayOctober 21, 2024

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Haiti’s interim administration struggling to remain intact over corruption scandal

Haiti’s interim transitional government is struggling to remain intact in the wake of a growing corruption scandal involving three of its key members. The list of agencies and organizations calling for their departure grows weekly. Emmanuel Vertilaire, Louis Gérald Gilles, and Smith Augustin are accused of demanding payments of nearly $800,000 from the manager of the state-owned National Credit Bank (BNC) in exchange for him being allowed to keep his […]

todayOctober 21, 2024

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Calvary’s Mission fundraises to build a grocery-store-type pantry in Queens

Patrons came out in their finest attire last Friday to support the 16th Annual Calvary’s Mission Food Pantry Gala Dinner, whose undertaking was to raise much-needed cash to end food insecurity through a pantry-forward initiative. The charitable cause, very close to the hearts of the sold-out crowd, was the first to attract so many supporters since its inception. The Dyker Beach Golf Club in Brooklyn served delicious food while popular […]

todayOctober 18, 2024 1

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