August 2012
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Around the Borough: Queens
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- The Port Authority knew a jet skier was missing and swimming in Jamaica Bay, but didn’t notify JFK security before he hopped the fence and wandered into a terminal two weeks ago.
- A thief was captured on surveillance video stealing two Torah crowns from a Kew Gardens Hills synagogue as congregants prayed upstairs.
- Incumbent State Senator Shirley Huntley listed a bunch of...
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Around the Borough: Queens
nice shot from the Queens Center Mall.
NEWS
- Bones found near LaGuardia Airport, although nobody’s sure if they’re human remains.
- Russell Simmons joined lawmakers and hundreds of others help to curb the violence plaguing south Queens.
- State Sen. Toby Stavisky and challenger John Messner will speak at a candidates forum at New York Hospital Queens on Aug. 29, hosted by...
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Around the Borough: Queens
Astoria.
NEWS
- Cops look for an armed sex abuser in Ridgewood.
- A Brooklyn man who already operates two nursing homes in Rockaway has purchased the former site of Peninsula Hospital and the affiliated nursing home.
- An elderly man was forcibly robbed by men posing as DEP workers in Forest Hills.
- President Obama’s ”car czar” visits Whitestone
- Peninsula Prep, a...
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Around the Borough: Queens
Train platform.
NEWS
- There was a three-alarm house fire in Douglaston last night.
- Jimmy Meng hires “hotshot” lawyer to defend him in his bribery case.
- Rep. Bob Turner endorses Wendy Long in her Senate run. Ed Koch (who helped Turner last September) endorsed Grace Meng in her run for Congress.
- Police identified the badly decomposed body found in a Richmond Hill attic as...
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Around the Borough: Queens
U.S Open
NEWS
- Arborcide at the courthouse!
- Police are looking in to a security breach by jet ski at JFK.
- An ethics panel rules politicians can’t attend the U.S Open for free.
- The MLS is close to a deal to build a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
- Busy 7 train — Sheldon Silver is eying Coney Island and Willets Point for a potential casino, reports the...
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Around the Borough: Queens
(this is the coolest story of the day — a woman in the 1960s refused to sell her house to Macy’s. The mall was built around her home. See below for more.)
NEWS
- A relative of a Richmond Hills Sikh leader was killed in the Wisconsin attack.
- Mayor Bloomberg and co. were on-hand at the opening of the new $30 million Rockaway Park in Far Rockaway. Does anyone else think it’s...
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Around the Borough: Queens
NEWS
- Local Sikhs are in shock after the Wisconsin shooting, and police have increased security at centers around the city. Queens has one of the largest Sikh populations in the country.
- Melinda Katz is planning to run for Borough President.
- Astoria State Sen. Michael Gianaris is crafting a set of bills to give New York the nation’s toughest gun laws.
- Police catch Aqueduct...
