March 22, 2022 By Michael Dorgan Van Morrison, the Grammy Award-winning singer and musician, has announced he will perform a concert at Forest Hills Stadium later this year. Morrison, 76, will take to the stage on Sep. 10 at the 13,000-capacity venue as part of a U.S. tour, he announced Monday. The Forest Hills concert… Read more »
March 22, 2022 By Allie Griffin Council Member Julie Won, who was more than seven months pregnant when she was sworn into office in January, gave birth to her first child earlier this month. Won announced Monday that she and her husband, Eugene Noh, welcomed their son into the world on March 11. The council… Read more »
March 22, 2022 By Christian Murray Plans have been filed for a nine-story development featuring 148 apartments near Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria. The development will replace several store fronts on Broadway—between 11th and 12th Streets—that have been slated for demolition since August 2021. The property, with an address of 11-20 Broadway, is currently occupied… Read more »
March 21, 2022 By Michael Dorgan It was one of the greatest upsets of all time in world soccer. In 2004, no-hopers Greece defied odds of 300-to-1 to win the European Championships for the first time in its history — and now residents in Astoria can relive the famous victory on the silver screen. A… Read more »
March 21, 2022 By Michael Dorgan The ever-popular Queens Night Market will return for its seventh year next month. The weekly food festival, which showcases the culinary diversity of Queens each Saturday, will return beginning April 16 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park with dozens of vendors confirmed to take part. The cost of entry for… Read more »
March 21, 2022 By Christian Murray A Long Island City-based organization that helps people who have been incarcerated get back on their feet has received a $10 million award care of philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—of Amazon fame. The Fortune Society, a non-profit organization based at 29-76 Northern Blvd., was given the funds by Scott in recognition… Read more »
March 21, 2022 By Czarinna Andres Thirty-six units in a luxury building by the Astoria waterfront are up for grabs as part of an affordable housing lottery. The lottery opened last week and applicants who want to live at the 11-37 31st Ave. development— known as Astoria West—have until May 19 to apply. The units… Read more »
This article was originally published by The CITY on March. 20, 2022 at 7:43 p.m. By Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY Supertall 5G-transmitting “smart poles” destined to sit atop LinkNYC kiosks won’t roll out until later this spring, but one early version of the 32-foot-tall towers stands alone on a quiet street in Queens, offering a… Read more »
March 18, 2022 By Christian Murray A Starbucks in Astoria has announced plans to unionize, the first location in Queens to do so. Workers at the 30-18 Astoria Blvd. store sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announcing their intention to form a union and their legal right to do so. “Starbucks continues to… Read more »
March 18, 2022 By Christian Murray A development team that seeks to rezone an industrial property on 11th Street in order to build two 8-story buildings—which would include 332 units and two trade schools—was unable to get the approval of Community Board 1 Tuesday night. The board voted 15 for and 15 against the project,… Read more »