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James Turano, Broker receives award from Senator Addabbo
Sep 28, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 82 82 recommendations | email to a friend
Rightly deserved for being a businessman in the Community for over 41 years and giving back to the Community fourfold.  A Vietnam Veteran, past President of the Middle Village Kiwanis club, past Pr...
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Sep 28, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 112 112 recommendations | email to a friend
Let’s Explore Billie Eilish Nude Pictures, Paige Vanzant Nude Photos, Vida Guerra Nude Photographs, Daisy Ridley Nude Images and Hayley Atwell Nude Videos Now !!! When it comes to getting naked in ...
Astoria Characters: The Scout Who Set Up the Little Free Pantry
Sep 26, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Lucas is a member of Troop 65. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Lucas McGarvey is standing on the sidewalk stocking the Little Free Pantry, something he does at least o...
Culture of Germany
Sep 21, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
People in Germany speak the German language. The linguistic diversity of Germany is vaguely diverse according to a fractionalization scale which for Germany is 0.1642. The followers of Christianity...
Astoria Characters: The Visual Artist Who's Eyeing His New Life
Sep 19, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Ahmed’s a visual artist. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Sitting on the stoop sipping coffee, Ahmed El Shaer can’t help but marvel at his good fortune. A visual artist...
Cosmetic Foot Surgery
Sep 16, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 4306 4306 recommendations | email to a friend
Cosmetic foot surgery procedures are done to reconstruct deformities from birth or due to injury. Surgery also minimizes scars and improves the cushioning on your feet. While cosmetic foot surgery ...
Graston Physical Therapy
Sep 15, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 3636 3636 recommendations | email to a friend
GRASTON TECHNIQUE FOR SPRAIN OR STRAIN Many types of physical therapy treatments either help you heal from recent injuries or work to prevent injuries from happening at all. They often focus on you...
Astoria Characters: The Woman Who Comes To the Rescue
Sep 14, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Julie is the founder of Immigrant Families Together. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Julie Schwietert doesn’t look like a superhero. For one thing, she’s not wearing a...
Porcelain Crowns
Sep 11, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 3430 3430 recommendations | email to a friend
Porcelain crowns for your teeth look natural and function just like your own teeth. A porcelain crown costs a little more than an acrylic crown, but it also lasts a lot longer. How long do porcelai...
Astoria Characters: The Pup and the Pandemic
Sep 06, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Zora The Wonder Dog. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling While Zora’s tail wagged like a hummingbird’s wings, the puppy got into play pose. I watched in wonder – and shock...

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One less mayoral candidate to rank in 2021
A crowded field to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio next year just got a little slimmer. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has announced that he is bowing out of the race. Johnson said that it was get...
Sep 29, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Trashing the mayor a common campaign strategy
While everyone is rightfully focused on the upcoming presidential election, there are a number of local races that are heating up, including many for city offices that won’t take place until 2021. ...
Sep 16, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 21 21 recommendations | email to a friend
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Joann Ariola announced her candidacy last week.
Queens GOP has a candidate for borough president
The Queens Republican Party has found their candidate for borough president. Joann Ariola recently announced that she is running for the post this November. She will be taking on Councilman Donovan...
Sep 09, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 26 26 recommendations | email to a friend
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That's an interesting piece of paper!
This is an undated photo from our archives that we ran a few years back, asking our readers to help us identify the individuals pictured. Here’s some of the information we received: Standing on the...
Sep 03, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rally recalls a piece of Williamsburg history
The calls for Mayor Bill de Blasio to step down are getting a little louder. Artist Scott LoBaido of Staten Island organized a “non-political” rally in City Hall Park on Saturday calling for the ma...
Aug 26, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 32 32 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayersohn, longtime assemblywoman, passes away
While the city was focused on the passing of former Queens borough president Claire Shulman, who died on Sunday at the age of 94, the borough also lost another trailblazing politician. On August 13...
Aug 19, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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DNC? Sorry, never heard of it
Hey, I campaigned for the position, too! The Democratic National Convention went virtual last night, and Mayor Bill de Blasio was noticeably missing from a video montage of the party’s 2020 candida...
Aug 19, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Revisting a groundbreaking
We ran this undated photo from our archives asking for help identifying some of the people and even the event they were attending, and we received several responses from our helpful readers. On the...
Aug 05, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 124 124 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who is that masked man? Not Cuomo!
Talk about setting a bad example! As if Governor Andrew Cuomo wasn’t already pushing up against his own guidelines after he made a trip to Georgia, a state experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases...
Jul 28, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 166 166 recommendations | email to a friend
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo with Savannah Mayor Van Johnson during a visit to the hard-hit state of Georgia on Monday. (Photo: Governor's Office)
Quaratine, contributions and campaign 'fraud'
This week we figured that we would take a quick look at some of the things going on in the world of New York politics. 14 days? Governor Andrew Cuomo made a trip to Savannah, Georgia, on Monday, vi...
Jul 24, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 140 140 recommendations | email to a friend
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Some of these races are far from over
New Yorkers went to the polls last week to take part in a primary election like we have never experienced before. For those that actually went to their regular polling location, they would have see...
Jul 04, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 219 219 recommendations | email to a friend
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Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis with State GOP chair Nick Langworthy.
The last of the Kings County Republicans
A few weeks back, we wrote about a New York Times article from 1987 that detailed how dysfunction in the Queens Republican Party was destroying the GOP’s influence in the borough. We noted the arti...
Jun 24, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 278 278 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former NYC councilman is released from jail
A former Queens councilman who was convicted in an elaborate bribery scheme was released from jail last month. Dan Halloran was sentenced to prison for his part in an effort to get State Senator Ma...
Jun 19, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 293 293 recommendations | email to a friend
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Old boss, same as the new boss
In these trying times we find ourselves in, a lot of us are probably wishing we could go back to a simpler time. And unless you come from a war-torn country or some other daily life-or-death situat...
Jun 02, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 335 335 recommendations | email to a friend
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Standing on top of New York City
This was an undated photo from our archives that we ran a couple of years back asking our readers for help identifying the people in the photo. One response came from an authority on the subject: J...
May 20, 2020 | 0 0 comments | 424 424 recommendations | email to a friend
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