Rally to Protect Fort Totten

*IMPORTANT RALLY* PROTECT THE FORT! ORGANIZED BY BAY TERRACE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE & FRIENDS OF FORT TOTTEN PARKS DATE: SAT., MARCH 7, 2009 AT 11:00 AM PLACE: FORT TOTTEN FRONT GATE CROSS ISLAND PKWY @ 212TH ST. GUARD SERVICE IS GOING TO BE REMOVED FROM THE ENTRANCE TO FORT TOTTEN PARK DUE TO MAYOR BLOOMBERG’S BUDGET [...]

Soaring charges hit condo, co-op owners

Crain’s New York Soaring charges hit condo, co-op owners Worse lies ahead as income from flip taxes and retail units ebbs just as defaults rise By Amanda Fung Published: February 22, 2009 – 5:59 am Residents of a 54-unit Upper East Side co-op got the bad news last month—despite the board’s intense efforts to trim [...]

Hot Dog!

Crain’s New York Hot dogs won’t lack buns in Queens By Hilary Potkewitz Published: February 22, 2009 – 5:59 am Residents of Jamaica, Queens, can sleep soundly. Their buns are staying in the oven. After emerging from bankruptcy early this month, Interstate Bakeries Corp. wasted no time in trumpeting the glad tidings: Its Jamaica factory, [...]

You need more green to live in Queens

From Your Nabe.com You need more green to live in Queens Report by Center for an Urban Future cites boro as fifth-most expensive locale in the United States By Philip Newman Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:59 PM EST New York City’s notorious cost of living is driving out thousands of the middle class in an [...]

Queens: A blue-collar boro shifts gears

Daily News By Lisa L. Colangelo, Friday, February 6th 2009, 10:16 AM DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Queens, long known as a haven for middle-class New Yorkers, may be outgrowing its blue-collar roots, a new report says. In fact, it’s more expensive to live in Queens than in Orange County, Calif.; Stamford, Conn., and even Nassau [...]