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Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Greg behind the wheel. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling Greg Kritikos is pedaling his bicycle on 30 th Avenue near 42 nd Street. This is the place he grew up in, and ev...
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Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Annalisa is the founder of The Blue Bus Project. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling The bright blue school bus lumbers down Ditmars Boulevard like an old elephant, treadi...
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Astoria Characters: The Guys Who Press for Success
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Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling Whiz French Cleaners is at 37-02 31st Ave. Text and Photos by Nancy A. Ruhling A guy in a baseball cap, oversized eyeglasses and a perfectly trimmed red beard drops a doze...
Pedestrian Accident with an MTA Bus Results in Death
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Legal Factors Involved with the Accident In September, a pedestrian accident occurred when an MTA bus hit a pedestrian around 2:30 a.m. in the Kingsbridge area of the Bronx close to West 231st stre...

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Governor declares 'haters gonna hate'
If you want to talk trash about New York's deal with Amazon, you're going to have to go through Governor Andrew Cuomo! Cuomo released a scathing op-ed to the press this week, trashing both “extreme...
Nov 20, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 717 717 recommendations | email to a friend
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They're called 'third' parties for a reason
The dust has finally settled on the 2018 elections, and we can begin to take stock of the results. Well, kind of. Despite trailing as of press time, State Senator Marty Golden refuses to concede de...
Nov 13, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 698 698 recommendations | email to a friend
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Councilman backs challenger for 16 hours
We guess a late endorsement is better than no endorsement at all. In case you missed it, there is an Assembly race in the 30th District of Queens, which includes the neighborhoods of Middle Village...
Nov 07, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 715 715 recommendations | email to a friend
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Luxury co-op snubs Avella
We guess just because you've said you're not giving up your campaign, that doesn't mean everyone has to accept it. State Senator Tony Avella was defeated in the Democratic Primary in September by J...
Oct 31, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 723 723 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ocasio-Cortez steps on a councilman's toes
Councilman Daniel Dromm felt the need to do a little fact-checking on Twitter recently. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the political newcomer who it's fair to say shocked the nation when she upset Congr...
Oct 24, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 764 764 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuomo, Blaz criticized as no-shows
It was a week of ducking political foes for two of New York's most powerful politicians, or as one opponent of Governor Andrew Cuomo put it, chickening out. The Green Party candidate for governor i...
Oct 17, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 740 740 recommendations | email to a friend
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Avella will make a run in general election
State Senator Tony Avella is not going to give up without a fight. We wrote here last week that there was a growing groundswell of support for Avella, who lost the Democratic Primary last month to ...
Oct 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 775 775 recommendations | email to a friend
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Interesting conflicts at CB7
While community boards are not necessarily political entities - their members are technically unpaid volunteers - there is a fair amount of politics at play among the 59 community board across the ...
Oct 03, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 785 785 recommendations | email to a friend
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AVella supporters could help Paladino
Supporters of State Senator Tony Avella could throw a monkey wrench in the upcoming general election. Avella lost in the Democratic Primary to former councilman and comptroller John Liu, who will n...
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Monserrate gets his foot back in the political door
And with one primary election, former councilman and state senator Hiram Monserrate has inched his way back into political relevancy. On September 13, Monserrate defeated George Dixon for a distric...
Sep 26, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 780 780 recommendations | email to a friend
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A Paladino by any other name
Vickie Paladino didn't get the endorsement – or any support - from the Queens County Republican Party in the primary last week against Simon Minching. In fact, the leaders of the Queens GOP didn't ...
Sep 19, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 820 820 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP club meeting ends with call to the cops
In most election cycles, the Queens County Republican Party is lucky if they can field one candidate to challenge incumbent Democrats, but this year there are not one, but two – count 'em, two! - G...
Sep 12, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 729 729 recommendations | email to a friend
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Bronx councilman still supporting Crowley
Pundits and insiders were shocked in June when political newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Joseph Crowley, the longtime congressman representing Queens and the Bronx and the head of the Qu...
Sep 05, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 781 781 recommendations | email to a friend
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We're gonna partisan politics like it's 1999
Who can forget the Rent Is Too Damn High Party that was founded by Jimmy McMillan, who ran on the party line for mayor in the 2005 and 2009 elections, and then for governor and senator in 2010? Oh,...
Aug 28, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 791 791 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chalk it up to a bad decision
We think even the most inside of political insiders was caught off guard when former councilman and city comptroller John Liu announced that he would be running against State Senator Tony Avella fo...
Aug 21, 2018 | 0 0 comments | 813 813 recommendations | email to a friend
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