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Astoria Characters: The Dessert Devotee
Jan 21, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Zaynab glazing the donuts. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling In the kitchen at Coffee Cake , Zaynab Abdullah is dipping donuts in a chai glaze, crowning each with a peti...
Astoria Characters: The Treasure Hunters
Jan 14, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Belle and Scott in the workroom of their apartment. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling There are a lot of old things in the apartment Scott Jordan and Belle Costes share....
Jan 08, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 216 216 recommendations | email to a friend
canon.com/ijsetup is a website to download Canon printer drivers, you can also visit the canonsetup-canon.com/ijsetup website for the same. All-in-one Canon Inkjet printers are suitable for home, b...
Astoria Characters: The Woman Who Paints With Fire
Jan 07, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 37 37 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling For decades, Tina worked as an interior designer. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Tina Maria Glavan takes a small, white vessel from the shelf in her art studio and cr...
Astoria Characters: The Ballet Pianist
Dec 31, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
  Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Maria is a pianist. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling For pianist Maria Kaushansky, music is about making connections that go far beyond the sounds that emanate from h...
Astoria Characters: The Ditmars Dawners
Dec 24, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 64 64 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Text and Photos by  Nancy A. Ruhling In a city that never sleeps, I’m a dawner. I get up at 5 in the morning all seven days of the week. It’s a habit I established about a...
Astoria Characters: The New-Boutique Owner
Dec 17, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 71 71 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Vanessa is the owner of Anoria Boutique. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Vanessa Gonzalez is in the front window of her new shop, Anoria Boutique , dressing a couple o...
Trendy Dogs Wear Rose Quartz by Rachelle Nones
Dec 12, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 1001 1001 recommendations | email to a friend
Dogs are sporting dashing rose quartz charms on their collars. Some are sleeping in a comfy dog bed with a black agate crystal zipped into the bed cushion to ease muscular and skeletal problems. Al...
Astoria Characters: The 90-Year-Old Songstress
Dec 10, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 74 74 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Miss Marie is a singer/songwriter. Text and photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Miss Marie makes her grand entrance on Broadway (Astoria’s not Manhattan’s). When she's a block from...
Nephrologist: Best Kindey Specialist In Bangalore
Dec 08, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 1008 1008 recommendations | email to a friend
Nephro Care is a team of doctors who are pioneers in the field of Nephrology.  Nephro Care constitutes of Dr. Santhosh Kumar S & Dr. Naveen M Nayak. Nephro Care  was established with the overall go...

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Adams takes pay in crypto
While Mayor Eric Adams didn't go as far as former mayor Michael Bloomberg and agree to be paid only $1 annually for the job of being mayor, the new head of City Hall is doing something with his sal...
Jan 25, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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New faces take over City Council committees
While the speaker of the City Council has many responsibilities, the one that gets talked about the most is the power to dole out committee assignments, which comes with a nice pay bonus and, depen...
Jan 25, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hochul dominating race, de Blasio won't run
It looks like its her race to lose. Governor Kathy Hochul is dominating the rest of the gubernatorial field now that her closest competitor, Attorney General Letitia James, dropped out of the race....
Jan 19, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 30 30 recommendations | email to a friend
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A change of attitude at City Hall
Add another residence to the list of speculative places where new mayor Eric Adams calls home, although this one is a lot less controversial. On Saturday, the new mayor of New York City visited Gra...
Jan 05, 2022 | 0 0 comments | 70 70 recommendations | email to a friend
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Government posts quickly filling up
The future of New York City politics is starting to take shape. We already know that we will have a new mayor leading City Hall on January 1 when Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams gets a promot...
Dec 21, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 114 114 recommendations | email to a friend
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Can Moya win over his colleagues?
The horse trading that is the race for City Council speaker is in full swing. There are currently seven council members who have expressed interest in succeeding Corey Johnson in the post. This yea...
Dec 15, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 144 144 recommendations | email to a friend
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James enters AG race, two drop out
Last week, we wrote about a new Siena Poll that showed Governor Kathy Hochul had a double-digit lead (36 to 18 percent) on her nearest competitor among likely voters in the Democratic Primary next ...
Dec 15, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 131 131 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sliwa aims to 'Save the Senate'
His bid for mayor fell short, but that doesn't mean Curtis Sliwa is going to sit on the sidelines in 2022. Sliwa announced this week that he is forming the “Save the Senate” Super PAC aimed explici...
Dec 08, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 156 156 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hochul in control
At this point, it looks like it's Kathy Hochul's job to lose. According to a Siena College poll released this week, the current governor holds a double-digit lead over her next closest challenger, ...
Dec 08, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 152 152 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suozzi to enter governor's race
Tom Suozzi isn't bolting Congress to join the incoming Eric Adams administration as a deputy mayor, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have his sights set on changing jobs. Adams extended the invitat...
Nov 30, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 172 172 recommendations | email to a friend
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Suozzi considering joining Adams at City Hall
Northeast Queens might be looking for a new congressman. Mayor-elect Eric Adams revealed this weekend that he has asked Congressman Tom Suozzi to join his administration at deputy mayor. Suozzi, wh...
Nov 24, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 180 180 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP didn't just do well in Council races
The unthinkable is about to happen in the a race for a seat on the bench in Queens County. Republican Joseph Kasper first ran for a judicial seat in 1995. From 1998 to 2000, his name was on the bal...
Nov 17, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 195 195 recommendations | email to a friend
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Republicans get a voice in race for speaker
Who says the Republican Party is dead in New York City? While it wasn't exactly a red wave that swept over the city, the GOP did make surprising gains in the City Council. The party was able to hol...
Nov 09, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 201 201 recommendations | email to a friend
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Time to elect some new political leaders
If you're registered to vote and you have a mailbox, you're probably aware that Election Day was this week just as this paper was going to press. Voters went to the polls on Tuesday to elect candid...
Nov 02, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 233 233 recommendations | email to a friend
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More on that statue of Claire Shulman
Last week in passing, we mentioned that a statue of former Queens borough president Claire Shulman was unveiled at Crystal Windows & Door Systems, a private company in Flushing. We didn't really dw...
Oct 20, 2021 | 0 0 comments | 325 325 recommendations | email to a friend
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