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Astoria Characters: The Photojournalist
Sep 19, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
PHOTO BY NANCY A. RUHLING Odette with her black limousine.   Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling “I call this my black limousine,” says   Odette Lupis   as she drives her Easy Wheels shopping cart ...
What are the Real Issues in the Sofia Vergara Embryo Lawsuits
Sep 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 249 249 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Bill Cafaro How Have the Cases in Other States Been Coming Out? What are the Rules? Sofia Vergara, one of the most beautiful women in the world and one of the highest paid women in television ...
Vehicle Crash in Queens Involved Fire Truck
Sep 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 236 236 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP   |   Sep 13, 2017   |   Car Accidents A vehicle crash in Queens occurred on Saturday, August 26, when a fire truck on its way to put out a fire in Flushing cras...
Be Careful—You Could Be on Candid Camera!!
Sep 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 242 242 recommendations | email to a friend
Don’t Let Workers’ Compensation Investigators Ruin Your Claim with Video Footage! Queens |NYC| Brooklyn |Bronx Workers’ Compensation Attorneys When you have been hurt on the job, you can’t count on...
Philadelphia Personal Injury Attorney
Sep 14, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 286 286 recommendations | email to a friend
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Phoenix Personal Injury Attorney
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Personal Injury Attorneys Phoenix AZ  fights for clients in all related cases to personal injury lawyers. Call (615) 500-2522 for more information and expert advice. We have group of knowledgeable ...
Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer
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Personal Injury Attorneys Atlanta GA  has over 30 years of combined legal experience with insurance settlements. Call (917) 308-7134 for more information and get free expert advice. Attorney at Per...
What Are Wage Theft Lawsuits in the Restaurant Industry?
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 325 325 recommendations | email to a friend
Posted on September 12, 2017 by sdhans A number of wage theft lawsuits and settlements have been occurring during the past five years. However, they haven’t received as much media attention as rest...
National Origin and Race Discrimination and Retaliation: EEOC Sues Long Island Company
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 278 278 recommendations | email to a friend
Claims of national origin and race discrimination along with retaliation were the basis of an EEOC lawsuit brought against a Long Island Company headquartered in Massapequa, NY in August 2017. A&F ...
Are You at Risk for Reduced Workers Compensation?
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Pyrros & Serres LLP   |   Sep 11, 2017   |   Workers Compensation Attorneys The new workers compensation rules could put you at risk, yes. New York unions are fighting proposed workers comp ru...

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Dillon on Dillon
Last month, we ran a photo of a poster we found on the side of a newspaper box advertising a congressional candidate named James J. Dillon, with little other information. After some Internet sleuth...
Sep 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Origins of St. Nicks, Part II
Last week, we shared part of an email we received from Michael Rochford, executive director of St. Nicks Alliance in north Brooklyn, who helped us fill in a lot of the details surrounding this unda...
Sep 05, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 77 77 recommendations | email to a friend
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The origins of St. Nicks Alliance
A couple of weeks ago we shared this undated photo from the archives with our readers, requesting any information they may be able to provide. A number of people identified the man in the middle as...
Aug 30, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 93 93 recommendations | email to a friend
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City Council hopeful is breaking the chains
When Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland announced that she would be stepping down from her Queens City Council seat, she really laid the groundwork for this year's most contentious primary race...
Aug 23, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 115 115 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mystery challenger to Crowley?
It looks like someone is going to be facing a challenger for their congressional seat this year! Of course, we don't have any idea who that incumbent might be. We spotted this poster last week on a...
Aug 16, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 139 139 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reverend Vetro & Cousin Brucie
We ran this photo from our archives last week, asking for help identifying the people in the photo with former assemblyman Vito Lopez (far right). Two readers, Pauline Ruggiero and Bobby Scheer, re...
Aug 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 168 168 recommendations | email to a friend
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Assemblyman Vito Lopez and...
We were rooting through our photo archives again, and found this undated photo among them. We recognize at least one person at this check presentation, and that is the man on the far right. He is, ...
Aug 01, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Getting to the bottom of Crazy Eddie
A couple of week ago we ran this undated photo we found in our archives and asked our readers for ideas on what might be going on. Well, a number of you emailed with information on Crazy Eddie, wit...
Jul 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 183 183 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan attend a Mets vs Cardinal game at Citi Field on the first day of City Hall In Your Borough in Queens. (Photo: Michael Appleton)
City Hall moves operations to Queens
Mayor Bill de Blasio has been taking his administration on the road, decamping city offices to one of the city's outer boroughs for a week, focusing on issues important to that borough and holding ...
Jul 18, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 176 176 recommendations | email to a friend
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Because $100,000 is a whole lot more than nothing
Last week, we touched on the somewhat peculiar race for City Council between Councilman Peter Koo and challenger Alison Tan. Tan is the wife of Assemblyman Ron Kim, who is (was?) a member in good s...
Jul 17, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 193 193 recommendations | email to a friend
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'The better half' challenging Peter Koo
There's a number of City Council members this year who are not only facing Republican challengers, but also challengers from within their own party. To name a few, there is Jen Berkley, who is runn...
Jul 11, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 197 197 recommendations | email to a friend
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Massey’s decision all about the Benjamins
It appears that big money has claimed another mayoral candidate. Republican candidate Paul Massey stunned political insiders when he announced last week that he, too, would be dropping out of the m...
Jul 02, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 189 189 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who is Crazy Eddie?
We were digging around our archives again this week and came up with this beauty. We have no idea who “Crazy Eddie” is or what he did to make these nice ladies so angry that they felt the need to p...
Jun 30, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 192 192 recommendations | email to a friend
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Massey's support comes with no strings
We guess there's no hard feelings about that whole “endorsing my opponent” thing! Last week, we wrote about the choice of some rank-and-file members of the Queens County Republican Party to buck th...
Jun 27, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 222 222 recommendations | email to a friend
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Queens GOP members buck leadership
The Queens County Republican Party can't seem to get on the same page...again. The county party, led by former congressman Bob Turner, officially announced its support for mayoral candidate Paul Ma...
Jun 20, 2017 | 1 1 comments | 258 258 recommendations | email to a friend
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