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 CUTS!
THE INCREASED POTENTIAL FOR VANDALISM, ARSON [...]

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 expenses, maintenance fees are rising [...]

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, the city’s largest maker [...]

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 exodus fueled not only by [...]

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 County, according to “Reviving [...]