Forest-Hills News

From the Queens Campaigner : Queens members of Congress helped to lead the push for national immigration reform last week, co-sponsoring legislation to legalize millions of undocumented individuals that has drawn praise from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, foreign workers and immigrant rights activists in the borough.

An individual involved in the construction of a Forest Hills home that has been fined nearly $200,000 for disregarding a number of stop-work orders has been accused of falsely certifying that he inspected a Brooklyn building where a city firefighter was injured after balconies collapsed, city officials said.

City education officials have unveiled two new schools that will soon call the $158 million Metropolitan Avenue Campus in Forest Hills their home.

'Horror House Detective' is Michael Gold's first book. Queens has been stage to many a weird occurrence.

" Remember the MTA's "Doomsday Budget" that was threatened this past spring, only to be rescinded when money was found to fill the gaps? Well, that budget - " or something like it - " is back, and this time the threat looks much more severe.

There is no place like New York City for national and international retailers and a few such food and coffee chains are seizing opportunities to set up shop in the New York metropolitan area.

ADD KEANU Reeves to the growing list of stars shooting flicks in Forest Hills. The "Matrix" headliner shot a romantic comedy on a tree-lined residential block last week, becoming just the latest big-screen personality to roam the suddenly sought-after neighborhood.

A handful of New Yorkers yesterday let their outrage be seen as they took to the streets to protest a D.C. proposal to tax boob jobs, Botox and various other forms of elective cosmetic surgery.

A pervert tried to snatch a 14-year-old girl off a Queens street as she walked to school -- but she bravely fought him off.

A Manhattan law firm that successfully sued owners of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town for overcharging tenants is fishing for similar clients in Queens apartments, the Daily News has learned.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 Boom in New Classrooms: More Seats for Kids Opening Up All Over Queens by Clare Trapasso - NY Daily News The Blessed Sacrament School at 34-23 93rd Street, Queens was closed as a Catholic School but will possibly gain new life as a public school.

I don't have a story about where I was or what I was doing on December 7, 1941, but I remember Pearl Harbor ... even though I wasn't even born yet.

Vinnie Lanzieri helped bust a crew of car thieves after following them through several boroughs with his tow truck.

A rendering of the new Metropolitan Avenue schools in Forest Hills The city expects to open five new schools and expand three existing ones in Queens next year, combating the borough's well-documented problem of overcrowded classrooms.

Also spelled "musabaha," mousabaha is a wonderful Lebanese dish that naturally falls into the vegan category of culinary endeavor.

Nearly 40 years ago, he promised "I will ease your mind." Now it's time for us to return the favour.

Fiona Ali of Jamaica, Queens, does heavy lifting in city: Six shopping bags full of Old Navy goods.

A simple note is posted in thick permanent marker on the door of the Hour Children food pantry in Long Island City: "I'm very sorry, but we have no turkeys or chickens this year.

WPP Group's JWT is walking away from its JetBlue creative account as the airline reaches out to other agencies.

Starting somewhere around Thanksgiving, here in the U.S. we enter a season of reflection and celebration.