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Share + Nov 25, 2009 7:30 pm US/Eastern Reporting Marcia Kramer Consolidated Edison has "shock" in store for customers this holiday season -- another round of hikes for what is already America's priciest electricity.

There she is! Elizabeth Kuchta, who lives in Queens, won the Miss G Train pageant on Thursday night at the City Reliquary Museum in Williamsburg.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thus starts the official holiday season. Thanksgiving is a time for gathering with friends and family, expressing gratitude, and of course, eating! Judith has a great rundown on places to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in town, if you are not preparing the meal yourself.

Steven Schnall thinks that 1,000 community banks will close in the next year. Even so, he's confident the one he's starting won't. Schnall, a mortgage finance expert who founded the now-defunct New York Mortgage Trust, has redesigned the erstwhile Golden First Bank in Great Neck under the name QuonticBank, with initial capitalization of $12 million ...

Emergency sheds were placed around 75 buildings at a cost of $10,000 per site, nearly triple that in fiscal 2007, according to HPD.

Housing flourished in the westernmost part of Queens, as it did in few other areas of the city from 2002 to 2008, according to a new economic snapshot of the neighborhoods of Long Island City and Astoria by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Housing in Long Island City and Astoria grew faster between 2002 and 2008 than it did in the city as a whole, according to a new state comptroller's report.

Residential growth in Long Island City and Astoria has outpaced the city as a whole, with the area's housing stock rising 4.8 percent from 2002 to 2008, compared to the citywide rate of 3.6 percent.

The latest neighborhood to get the always popular rezoning treatment is Astoria, where the city is close to unveiling a plan that will prevent tall buildings on blocks lined with houses .

The weekend before Thanksgiving is a good time to chill before all the big holiday get-togethers. Check out a fun, casual eatery, watch football or enjoy a party at the Beer Garden.

We have one of the first batting cages ever in the State of New York and with that comes many years of experience.

Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. joins protesters opposed to builders who want to put up structures before zoning law goes into effect.

Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan, walk through the brand-new halls of Astoria's Frank Sinatra School of the Arts and still marvel at all the details they notice for the first time.

Monday, November 16, 2009, by Joey 1) Think hipster coffee shops and wine bars are the ultimate signs of gentrification? Nope, according to a real estate broker in Astoria, it's all about the bitches.

The New York Times recently had a story looking at the unexpected popularity of French bulldogs in the Ditmars section of working-class Astoria, Queens.

Of the five boroughs of New York City , Manhattan is obviously the most visited, most well-known, but whether or not tourists realize it, they actually set foot in another borough first.

Tommy Demaros the owner of Cavo said, "A lot of people said we were out of our minds, because there was nothing here." But, Tommy Demaros took on the challenge and opened "Cavo" several blocks away from busy Steinway Street in Astoria.

Marc Lewis, president of Century 21 NY Metro and 575 Madison Avenue In a continuing bid for aggressive expansion, Century 21 NY Metro told The Real Deal today that it has acquired Queens-based sales and rental firm MQ Realty.

TheA QueensA deathtrap where three men perished in a raging fire was twice the target of a city investigation into illegally converted apartments, officials said Sunday.

He's got balls - mozzarella balls! A tour of Queens' homegrown mozz factory. On a secluded residential block in Ridgewood, Queens, lies a squat, two-story factory of wonder.