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 [...]

Queens is Ready to Puck Around

From the NY Daily News
Could Isles net the Point? Plan pushes Iron Triangle home

BY Nicholas Hirshon
Tuesday, February 10th 2009, 10:45 AM
SKATING SOON at a rink near you – the Iron Triangle Islanders?

The Queens Chamber of Commerce is making a long-shot bid to lure the four-time Stanley Cup champions from Nassau County as part of redevelopment [...]

World’s Fair map could be in peril

From NY Daily News

The city has let ice blanket a faux-marble road map from the 1964 World’s Fair multiple times this winter instead of dishing out $20,000 to protect the cartographic curiosity, Queens News has learned.
Preservationists fear frost will dislodge or fracture panels on the 9,000-square-foot map in the New York State Pavilion, a [...]

There Used to be a Ballpark

There Used to be a Ballpark – Shea Stadium, Yankee Stadium and Ebbet’s Field, home to the “Boys of Summer.”
It’s called progress!
EBBET’S FIELD & THE BROOKLYN DODGERS

SHEA STADIUM

YANKEE STADIUM

Marshall Backs Effort To Honor Park Activist David Oats

Queens Tribune

Marshall Backs Effort To Honor Park Activist
David Oats
By Brian M. Rafferty
David Oats loved Flushing Meadows Corona Park. One of his first assignments as a young reporter was to speak with Robert Moses, the visionary power broker who masterminded so much of the development in the city – as well as the creation of the [...]

North Flushing Says “NO” To McMansions

FROM THE DAILY NEWS
Homeowners group head Sandi Viviani and civic group head Tyler Cassell have been working on new Flushing zoning.
In an effort to ward off oversized McMansions, city planners have proposed new zoning for 257 blocks in northern Flushing.
The plan is designed to help the area keep its look and feel of mostly single-family [...]

Grace Meng, Jimmy Meng & Caroline Meng

On a snowy Sunday morning in Bay Terrace, a few early birds sitting in the Cafe were discussing Newly-elected Assemblywoman Grace Meng who took her oath of office in Flushing on Saturday at a ceremony at Queens College. Part of the conversation focused on Grace’s sister Caroline and the anti-Semitic venom she reportedly spewed on [...]