Sewage leak nightmare in Rockaway
A Far Rockaway homeowner has been besieged for months by raw sewage seeping from a neighbor's property, and several appeals to the neighbor and the city to solve the problem have failed.
Bakery cooks up new digs thanks to credit
A Queens artisanal bakery is rising - with plans to move into a new facility this fall - thanks to a bountiful city incentive....
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Fast growing immigrant group in QueensBurmese, Bhutanese and Nepalese immigrants are flocking to Queens in such large numbers that they've earned their own separate categories in the U.S. Census count.
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Latino events in Nueva York, August 3-9
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Diversity greatly benefits FDNY
The City of New York recently opened the filing period for Firefighter Exam No. 2000. The FDNY's Office of Recruitment and Diversity ha...
Airline employee hits co-worker in head with pipe
A Southwest Airlines employee smashed a colleague over the head with a metal pipe during a wild fight at LaGuardia Airport Tuesday afte...
Kind cabbie returns valuables to passenger
A New Jersey woman received an unexpected birthday surprise when a kind-hearted New York cabbie went out of his way to return the purse...
Hail storm pelts parts of Queens
A summer hail storm pelted parts of northern Queens with "golfball-sized" pieces of ice Monday evening, shocked residents said....
Civil Service: It's dis-union as sides fight over park patrol
Local 983 of District Council 37 is one of those unusual city unions that covers a variety of workers - from tow truck drivers and high...
A one-way street? No way!
A city plan to alleviate traffic congestion in front of a Whitestone school is stirring up some unneighborly sniping in a normally tran...
Rabbis & workers against kosher producer
Rabbis are joining forces to pressure a Brooklyn distributor of kosher products to pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars they say i...
Thieves busted for using doctored Dunkin' Donuts gift cards
America may run on Dunkin' but two clever thieves were stopped dead in their tracks from using doctored gift cards from the donut chain...
'Green' jobs reversal of Fortune for ex-cons
A Long Island City organization is offering scores of former inmates a second chance to get it right....
Funding due for mobile animal control
Though plans to build new animal shelters for Queens and the Bronx have been scrapped, city officials promised both boroughs will see m...
Referendum could keep Islanders in Nassau
A Nassau County referendum Sunday on a new Islanders arena may end Queens' flirtations with luring the hockey team to form a sports bas...
2-year-old boy hit and killed by truck
A two-year-old toddler was struck and killed after running into the street outside an Elmhurst playground, police said....
Ex-cop fatally shot after dice game
A former NYPD officer was killed - shot in the back - after a dispute over a curbside dice game in Jamaica, Queens....
Information not free: Delays in getting records
Attempts to access key public records about the city's parks, including a Daily News inquiry last year about asbestos removal at a hist...
- Diversity greatly benefits FDNY
- Airline employee hits co-worker in head with pipe
- Kind cabbie returns valuables to passenger
- Hail storm pelts parts of Queens
- Civil Service: It's dis-union as sides fight over park patrol
- A one-way street? No way!
- Rabbis & workers against kosher producer
- Thieves busted for using doctored Dunkin' Donuts gift cards
- 'Green' jobs reversal of Fortune for ex-cons
- Funding due for mobile animal control
- Referendum could keep Islanders in Nassau
- 2-year-old boy hit and killed by truck
- Ex-cop fatally shot after dice game
- Information not free: Delays in getting records
- Gonzalez: City whiffed on new MLB parks
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Gay Marriage legal in New York
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn greeted couples who lined up Sund...
Weirdest stuff stopped at customs
We've investigated the slew of weird and wacky things to pass through ...
2011 Fourth of July fireworks
What's red, white and blue all over the New York City skyline? Macy's ...
Hot Dog Eating Contest 2011
The hot dogs will be piled high and the contestants will be piling the...
Inside Queens' Worksman Cycles shop
Worksman Cycles in Ozone Park is one of the last bicycle manufacturing...
Puerto Rican Day Parade 2011
The Puerto Rican Day Parade danced, twirled and marched its way down F...
Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk 2011
New Yorkers from all five boroughs joined in to participate in the Out...
Ida the polar bear euthanized
Ida, one of the Central Park Zoo's two beloved polar bears, was euthan...
The Fifth Annual NYC Dance Parade
The Fifth Annual NYC Dance Parade took place May 21, 2011. It started ...
New York's saddest day: 9-year anniversary of 9/11
President Obama visited Ground Zero on May 5, 2011, just five days aft...
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