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An 11-year-old Queens boy was severely burned by a lighter, and his mother wants to prove that the device's manufacturer knew it wasn't childproof.

Dozens of churches held what may be their final services in New York City public schools Sunday after losing a drawn-out court battle to hold on to the spaces.

It was a busy week for news in Douglaston. The Little Neck Douglaston Community Ambulance Corps talked with Patch about a fundraiser brunch at Strawberry's Sports Grill and state Assemblyman Rory Lancman, D-Fresh Meadows, announced that he would challenge U.S. Rep.

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Today is the final day for dozens of churches around the city to hold services inside public school buildings, as the Bloomberg administration plans to start enforcing a court decision banning churches from using schools for religious worship.

In this Feb. 10, 2012 photo, Jane Byron poses for a photograph in a park near her home in the Queens borough of New York.

New York - Victor Mooney, executive director of Queens, New York based - South African Arts International, hopes that Cardinal-Designate Timothy Dolan elevation this week will spur an increase in rosary collection nationwide.

A man was arrested on Long Island for allegedly touching the feet of a teenage girl and asking another to MYFOXNY.COM - A city public school teacher has retired from his six-figure salary job as he was working in an administrative office in a Queens middle school.

When is a new natural gas pipeline a good idea? When it updates aging equipment and brings cleaner air to the region it serves, according to bipartisan support for HR 2606, the New York City Natural Gas Supply Enhancement Act that passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on February 7. The bill calls for the Secretary of the Interior to ... (more)

More than any other great director, Martin Scorsese - born in Queens, raised in lower Manhattan - is ours.

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A Guyana born woman was last month sworn in as a judge in the Queens Supreme Court in New York and will be presiding over criminal matters.

Politics and religion mixed this afternoon at a rally in a Washington Heights church where civic leaders, backed by a handful of elected officials, pushed for the state to draw a majority Latino congressional district that would include parts of upper Manhattan, the west Bronx, and Corona and Jackson Heights in Queens.

Leaders of Queens churches who use public schools as places of worship say the city's push to evict them from their current homes on Sunday could force them to lose followers and strain their community ties.

Queens residents who need help with their taxes can get free assistance filing their returns on weekends at the Flushing YMCA.

Stepping cautiously between crumbling gravestones of Revolutionary and Civil War veterans, Cate Ludlam scanned one of the city's oldest cemeteries and choked back tears at the progress she's made since first undertaking a massive preservation project there in 1989.

The West End Civic Association of Floral Park welcomed political dignitaries to weigh in on the proposed casino at Belmont Park at a meeting held at the Atlantic Avenue Floral Park Fire Department on Thursday, Feb.

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For five long years during World War II, Nahum Korenblum never left the side of his younger brother Yaakov as the two fled the Nazi invasion of Poland, escaped forced labor camps across Europe and ultimately joined the Soviet Red Army.