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Bucks County Veterinary Hospital
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Are you looking for a veterinary hospital that treats your pet like a furry family member? Are you seeking answers to questions or assistance with concerns about your pet’s health? At World of Anim...
Bucks County Veterinary Hospital
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Are you looking for a veterinary hospital that treats your pet like a furry family member? Are you seeking answers to questions or assistance with concerns about your pet’s health? At World of Anim...
Dentist Northeast Philadelphia
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Here at Smile Maker, we are proud of our commitment to providing quality patient care and state-of-the-art dental services to the community of Philadelphia, PA, and the surrounding tri-state area. ...
Dentist Northeast Philadelphia
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Here at Smile Maker, we are proud of our commitment to providing quality patient care and state-of-the-art dental services to the community of Philadelphia, PA, and the surrounding tri-state area. ...
Dentist Philadelphia
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Here at the Philadelphia Dental Office of Dr. Renee Yurovsky, our doctor and her staff strive to provide the highest quality of service and best dental care possible for every one of our patients. ...
Dentist Philadelphia
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Here at the Philadelphia Dental Office of Dr. Renee Yurovsky, our doctor and her staff strive to provide the highest quality of service and best dental care possible for every one of our patients. ...
Immigration Lawyer Philadelphia
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The Philadelphia Immigration Lawyers at the Law Offices of Dizengoff and Yost help our clients to get lawful permanent resident status, and we also help our clients to get green cards for their fam...
Astoria Characters: The Vintage Queen
Jan 02, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 246 246 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Jade is the owner of Vintage Queens NYC. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Waitress. Seamstress. Photographer. Bartender. Screenwriter. Costumer. Carpenter. Actress. Int...
Astoria Characters: The Woman Who Brings History to Life
Dec 26, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 296 296 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Lynda works for the Intrepid museum. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Hal bursts into the back yard like a flying bullet, grabs a knit cap from the bag on the chair and...
“My Heritage Is Everything To Me.” An Exclusive Interview With Historian Stephanie Longo.
Dec 22, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 1371 1371 recommendations | email to a friend
  Interview by Tiziano Thomas Dossena Italian-American historian Stephanie Longo has dedicated her life to celebrating and focusing on her family’s heritage. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, sh...

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Queens Dems avoid choice for mayor
The Queens County Democratic Party last week announced their endorsements for the June primary, but decided not to back one of the many candidates running for mayor. The only citywide race the part...
Feb 24, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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We can't rank ranked-choice voting yet!
So how did ranked-choice voting fare in the first election to use it since voters adopted a referendum making it standard practice in elections for posts in city government? We’ll have to wait unti...
Feb 10, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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Snow way! Bad timing for a monster storm
As if voter turnout for Tuesday’s special election in northeast Queens to replace Rory Lancman on the City Council wasn’t already going to be low, the foot-plus of snow that fell the day before the...
Feb 02, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 81 81 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michael DenDekker on the set of 30 Rock.
Leaving Albany for Hollywood
Why was he wasting his talents in Albany for the last 12 years?! Michael DenDekker, who just lost his Assembly seat to Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas this year, sent out a press release announcing that now...
Jan 26, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 85 85 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dollar for dollar, or rather eight dollars for dollar
Since the start of the pandemic, a major concern is the budget shortfalls facing New York after the city effectively shut down. The mayor asked city agencies to find ways to cut corners, a large ro...
Jan 19, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 110 110 recommendations | email to a friend
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What's in an email address anyway?
We guess if you can’t be a councilman, you can at least have an email address like one. Last week, we received an email from Hiram Monserrate, the former councilman and state senator who was remove...
Jan 13, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 92 92 recommendations | email to a friend
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D24 voters will be first to rank
Ranked-choice voting is officially here. A special election to fill a Queens City Council seat, which was left vacate when Rory Lancman agreed to take a post in the Cuomo administration as the stat...
Jan 06, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 153 153 recommendations | email to a friend
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Yang files for mayor, may have pizza problem
As if the field of candidates for New York City mayor wasn’t crowded enough, another candidate inched closer to joining the race. Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang filed paperwork last week...
Dec 29, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 144 144 recommendations | email to a friend
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A conservative upsets the status quo
We’re revisiting a photo from our archives that we ran a couple of weeks back asking readers to help us identify some of the folks in the photo. So far we’ve made it a little over half way down the...
Dec 23, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 154 154 recommendations | email to a friend
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Are members deferring on member deference?
It looks like the long-standing - if unofficial - practice of member deference is still functioning in the City Council. For now. It has always been understood that if a City Council member was eit...
Dec 16, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 231 231 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sharon Lee marches in the Rockaway St. Patrick's Day Parade just days before the city was shut down. (Photos: BP's Office)
Lee’s unlikely times in office comes to an end
She was just supposed to keep the seat warm for a couple of months, but she ended up leading the borough through one of its most trying times. When Melinda Katz was sworn in as the new district att...
Dec 09, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 230 230 recommendations | email to a friend
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Just super! Democrats basking in new majorities
It wasn’t just in the presidential election that mail-in ballots played a huge role in eventually deciding the outcome, they also played a big role in decided several races in Albany. When the poll...
Dec 01, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 243 243 recommendations | email to a friend
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From roles in government to roles in film
We ran this photo from our archives last week with some information that readers sent in to us about the people in the photo. To recap, pictured from left to right is the late Emanuel Gold, a forme...
Nov 24, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 272 272 recommendations | email to a friend
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A restoration in Forest Hills
Here’s another undated photo from our archives we ran asking our readers to help us identify the people pictured, and this is some of the information we received. On the far left is State Senator E...
Nov 18, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 265 265 recommendations | email to a friend
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Post Offices: Local races will come down to mail-in ballots
The large number of people voting by mail this year didn’t just have national ramifications, it will likely decide some key races here in New York City. In Queens, Ed Braunstein, who has represente...
Nov 11, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 308 308 recommendations | email to a friend
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