Astoria News

"What type of cellphone do you have, what carrier is it and what's your favorite app?" At 7:30pm, after media and tech folk scrambled into the Museum of the Moving Image off 35th Avenue in Astoria, the NYC Tech Forum began.

Hospital for Special Surgery will celebrate its 150th anniversary and honor the City of New York at its 30th Annual Tribute Dinner.

Soon, fans won't have to wait in line to get Fares "Freddy" Zeideia's famous street falafel - they'll be able to make it themselves.

BIG!Compost, a program of the Astoria-based Build It Green!NYC, is starting new drop-off sites at the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue 7 Train station in Hunters Point, and the G Train stop in Greenpoint.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring that's on display in the Kremlin, but says he's ready to buy him another ring as a gift.

The man in this picture and an alleged accomplice are being sought for questioning in connection with a rash of violent cellphone robberies in Astoria, police sources said.

Yoann Lemoine is an accomplished filmmaker and musician. He is best known for his music video collaborations with Lana Del Rey , Katy Perry , and Drake featuring Rihanna .

New York may be home to all manner of firsts and bests: the Yankees, the IRT, the Manhattan and Tiffany's to name a few but why didn't we ever lay claim to a rice paddy? After all, rice is a key ingredient in so many cultural cuisines, including Asian and Latino.

With the Senate session winding down in Albany, and about a thousand bills left to debate, the hydrofracking moratorium bill may not even hit the floor for a vote.

The restaurant scene in New York can be unnervingly similar to elementary school friendships.The closing of a restaurant is like a best friend moving to a different country: You know that no one will ever fill that void, and the most aching pains come when someone new arranges his or her pencil case in the desk where that old friend once sat.

Yoann Lemoine is an accomplished filmmaker and musician. He is best known for his music video collaborations with Lana Del Rey , Katy Perry , and Drake featuring Rihanna .

With people being pushed onto tracks, sexually assaulted and robbed, members of Transit Workers Union Local 100 and elected officials called on the MTA to re-staff station booths throughout the subway system.

Somebody just killed themselves on the MTA train tracks in Astoria, New York City by the Broadway N Q line station near my house, and I saw firemen hosing what was left of him or her off the tracks.

Astor isn't fooled and the college is never built - but the name sticks. 1968... "Rosemary's Baby" - the popular movie about Satan worship on the Upper West Side - opens at theaters in the Big Apple.

Exclusive: On Sunday June 9, the "Media Assassin" will host "Hip Hop in the YouTube Age: How the Medium is Changing the Message" at the Museum Of The Moving Image in Queens, New York.

The incident occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6, when a Delaware State Police trooper observed a 1995 Jeep Cherokee without two working taillights in the area of Route 113 and Arrow Safety Road, police said.

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Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Astoria New York. The people then felt a need to organize their own Church and in 1927 the ground on which St. Demetrios stands today, was purchased for $3,500.

It's 2 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday night in Astoria. You've just left the bar with your friends and, because of the way the world works, the N/R/Q trains are running every hour and you just missed it.

A waterfront residential development proposed for Astoria is 1.5 miles from the nearest subway and would overburden existing bus routes, but unless Council Member Vallone acts, it's full steam ahead.