Around the Borough: Queens

The Queens Jazz Trail map.


NEWS

-The mayor is pushing a new plan for Willets Pt., with a $500 million proposal by USTA to update Flushing Meadows.

- With so many trucks on Skillman Ave., the Sunnyside Post wonders if it’s become a truck route.

- Hiram Monseratte’s girlfriend says the Queens DA pressured her into charging the ex-Senator with domestic violence, and she plans to sue. 

- In Whitestone, a disabled Veteran helps others. “I’m in pain constantly, but I don’t let it stop me.”

- Assemblyman Rory Lancman endorsed by the Daily News in NY6. 

- Western Queens may become the Silicon Valley of the east. (This is different than Silicon Alley, which I’m told repeatedly is Manhattan.)

- Mets consider quiet section at Citi Field for autistic children.


FUN

-Tonight was the first night of beach flix in Rockaway. Check out the full summer schedule.

- Little kids create an underwater world, displayed at an art exhibit in Jackson Heights.

PLAY ‘EM OFF

Enjoy this full episode of The Nanny from season 1, when a blizzard forces the Sheffield’s to move their Bermuda vacation to the Fine’s apartment in Queens.

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