Woodside News

A Long Island Rail Road train struck and killed a man on the tracks in Queens this morning.

From December 2008 to March 2009, the city tested every city neighborhood for four air pollutants: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, elemental carbon and fine particle PM2.5, which Health Department Director of Environmental Research Thomas Matte said "has the strongest connection to public health." Elemental carbon, PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide are ...

The city is investigating a Queens business believed to have made over 1,000 bogus calls to a city complaint hotline since September, claiming that homeowners were illegally converting their basements into apartments.

Mrs. Marian Munise, 87, of Gloversville, passed away Friday with her loving family at her side.

Shafin Ahammed files a notice of claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, accusing the city of negligence when rescuers were sent to the wrong address during a fire which killed three men and injured four.

MTA cuts: So what else is new? Woodside : Re "Big MTA cuts will leave N.Y.ers hanging" : Just raise the fare another dime for two years.

The controversial new 911 dispatching system has an error rate of less than 1% - and is working just fine, the mayor's office said Thursday in a vigorous defense of a change critics say is putting lives at risk.

Here in Woodside, Queens, Carmen Ledesma employs nine women in her Parisien Beauty Salon, a business she started 16 years ago on Roosevelt Avenue after moving to the United States from Paraguay.

From the Queens Chronicle : A Woodside convert to Islam who openly sympathizes with al-Qaeda and the Taliban says he has left the country.

PEMA SHERPA was opening the door of his rented yellow cab when the first blow came.

S tony Brook, L.I.: What a surreal experience to read about one's school closing while sitting down to grade essays in that very same building .

The cast of 'Flanagan's Wake' hams it up on stage. . Tears are a customary occurrence at any wake, and 'Flanagan's Wake' is no exception; but rather than sobs of sorrow, salty droplets will stream down your face from gut- wrenching laughter during this interactive off-Broadway production.

Food lovers from throughout Queens descended upon about 30 street carts on Roosevelt Avenue Sunday, munching on everything from pumpkin quesadillas to an Ecuadorian shrimp dish during a 2-mile walk planned by Woodside resident Jeff Orlick meant to peak people's awareness of the tasty eats in Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona.

An unidentified man was hit by a Long Island Rail Road train about 6:40 p.m. Friday evening, just west of the Woodside station.

The fire that roared through the illegally subdivided basement of a Queens house in the early morning of Nov.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sunnyside Post The New York State Senate rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made New York the sixth state to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates such as Jimmy Van Bramer, the NYC councilman-elect who represents Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City.

The New York City fire department is temporarily changing the process by which 911 calls reporting fires are handled.

A deadly blaze that killed three people in a two-family Queens house at 42-38 65th Street, and revealed the numerous unregulated apartments divided within, has drawn a keen eye toward the growing problem of illegal apartments in the five boroughs.

For at least two years before a fire killed three men in an illegally divided house next door, Diane Ross and her family lived in an illegal apartment at 42-38 65th Street in Woodside, Queens.

The lobby of 650 Fifth Avenue. The building is owned by The Alavi Foundation. "The Alavi Foundation has effectively been a front for the government of Iran," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara , who sued to grab more than $500 million in assets.