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Statistics Tell the Story of Why Texting While Driving Causes Accidents
May 22, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 90 90 recommendations | email to a friend
by John Fazzini   Statistics Tell the Story of Why Texting While Driving Causes Accidents Forty-eight states (all except Missouri and Montana) have banned texting while driving for all drivers. Mis...
Astoria Characters: The Schooled Stylist
May 21, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Janete is the owner of Janete’s Hair Studio. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Janete Chris is arranging silver scissors on a mirrored tray at her styling station. Cutti...
What Does Your Geographic Location Have to Do with SEO?
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 260 260 recommendations | email to a friend
Location Based Marketing When you do a search, what do you type into the search box? Well, it depends on what you’re searching. If you’re going to purchase something from an online store, you proba...
Tips to Prevent Bicycle Accidents in the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 240 240 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP Safety Prevention for Bike Riding New York City has numerous bicycles on the road, and as time goes along, the number continues to increase. The   DOH (Departmen...
Preventing Swimming Pool Injuries
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 240 240 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP   What Are the Risks for Swimming Pool Injuries? As warmer weather arrives, swimming pools become a favorite form of recreation for people across the country. Ho...
Biometrics and Employee Identification
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 211 211 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans New York City Has Proposed a Biometrics Privacy Law Biometrics is a new technology identification system being used by a variety of industries for various purposes. The primary...
What is the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)?
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 223 223 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans New York Passed GENDA in January, 2019 With the passage of GENDA, LGBTQ youth and transgender individuals have protection against discrimination and harassment based on New Yor...
#MeTOO? A Guide to What Exactly Constitutes Sexual Harassment in New York
May 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 143 143 recommendations | email to a friend
As brought to light during the course of the #MeToo movement, it is illegal to harass an employee or even a job applicant in New York State due to that person’s sex or gender.  However, some of the...
A Vietnam Veterans wish for this Memorial Day 2019
May 19, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 305 305 recommendations | email to a friend
Photos Of The Vietnam War: The Real Story   David Ralph Retuya The Vietnam War is one of the most bloody and controversial wars in U.S history. To stop the rapid spread of the Soviet political infl...
Astoria Characters: The Shy Actor
May 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
By Nancy A. Ruhling Ben’s first love is music. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Ben Rogers is a real shy guy. At least that’s what he says. He has no trouble being on a stage – he is, after all,...

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Run some city jails that don’t exist yet
Isn’t it a little premature to be hiring for a post that technically doesn’t even exist yet? If you think the de Blasio administration hasn’t already made up its mind on whether or not to close Rik...
May 22, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cox out as head of New York State GOP
After serving ten years as state Republic chairman, Ed Cox will step down from the post in July and take a job with the Trump campaign. Even in a state as blue as New York, Republican has suffered ...
May 22, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Brooklyn voters get a rare May election
Nothing stokes the ambitions of political newbies quite like a special election. The nonpartisan events mean that first-time candidates and relative unknowns don’t need to work the backrooms of the...
May 14, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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State Senator Toby Stavisky and Assemblyman Dan Rosenthal gleefully run afoul of any number of state regulations with each turn of the handle.
And bingo was the violation-O!
How much money are our seniors spending on the buy-in for an admission pack at these bingo games? They’re on fixed incomes! State Senator Toby Stavisky and Assemblyman Dan Rosenthal of Queens are w...
May 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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Run AOC: fun run or ‘fund’ run?
ALL PHOTOS: WALTER KARLING Sometimes trouble follows you, and sometimes you bring it upon yourself. Both happened to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday in Astoria. First, the troubl...
Apr 30, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
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Liu talks straight on Amazon
Who says that elected officials these days only tell you what you want to hear? Last week, State Senator John Liu was invited by the Queens Chamber of Commerce to be the guest speaker at a networki...
Apr 25, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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If they happen all the time, are they really ‘special’
Perhaps we should just start calling them ‘extra elections’
Apr 16, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 76 76 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pols wrangle concessions in congestion
Now that’s how you do politics! Congestion pricing was included as part of this year’s budget, which means that within a couple of years, drivers will be paying a fee to enter Manhattan with their ...
Apr 10, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 92 92 recommendations | email to a friend
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Councilman in harass tangle
So it ain’t so, Barry! Councilman Barry Grodenchik is being accused of making a female staffer feel uncomfortable. According to her, he greeted her with a hug and kiss, which he apparently didn’t d...
Apr 10, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 121 121 recommendations | email to a friend
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For one day, congestion pricing created congestion
It sure was crowded on the other side the Queensborough Bridge in Manhattan on Sunday, and we’re not sure congestion pricing would have helped. In fact, it was the cause. Several elected officials ...
Mar 26, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 184 184 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who’s your public addy?
Here’s a question you won’t hear in any other city: Who is your public advocate? But in New York City, we are lucky that we have just such a post, so who is our public advocate? Well, that’s curren...
Mar 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 187 187 recommendations | email to a friend
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'Hero' is just another word for 'sandwich'
The political winds are fickle in New York City, goslings! A new Siena College poll out this week reveals that two-thirds of New York State voters now would gladly hand over $3 billion to Amazon if...
Mar 20, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 164 164 recommendations | email to a friend
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Or rather, where there’s a smokehouse, there’s a business owner who is really upset with his local councilman. Amazon’s decision to suddenly abandon HQ2 sent shockwaves through the city’s business ...
Mar 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 181 181 recommendations | email to a friend
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Williams bests 16 in special election
Just 9 percent of the city’s voters turned out for last week special election for public advocate, were you one of them? In other words, in a city of over 8 million people, the person next in line ...
Mar 06, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 233 233 recommendations | email to a friend
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Parsing the numbers in the special election
We hope that you all made it out for the dry run of the election for public advocate, prepping for the real thing to start all over again in a couple of months. And the whole endeavor only cost tax...
Feb 27, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 249 249 recommendations | email to a friend
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