Around the Borough: Queens

Boardwalk trash.

NEWS

- Parents and teachers at a middle school in Rockaway Park say the school — which has been taken over and reformed twice in a few years — is “chaotic.”

- A Flushing state Assemblyman who also owns a Korean-language newspaper is profiting off prostitution adds in the back of his paper.

- “Hey Ridgewood is just like Brooklyn, but it’s in Queens!” No. Stop.

- Woodside Sushi Bandit!

- A boardwalk still crumbling from a Irene and a gross, trashy beach plagues Rockaway.

- Rep. Meeks’ top donors come from finance and insurance.

- An armed man wearing a bucket hat robbed a Howard Johnson in Meadowmere Park.

- An 18-year-old was shot dead Friday in Far Rockaway in the middle of the afternoon.

- City shuts down illegal buses that take passengers from Chinatown to Flushing.

- Heroic Mike Baxter honored in Whitestone.

- Weiner 2013?

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