Queens Chronicle

While recent State of the State and State of the Borough addresses have been clogging the airwaves, the plans, and sometimes just hopes, of civic leaders and legislators can be pieced together to create a very definitive state of South Que… Comments (0)

Queens Borough Department of Transportation Commissioner Maura McCarthy laid out the city’s case Tuesday night for the most controversial element of the plan to renovate the Cooper Avenue u… Comments (0)

The Black Spectrum Theatre, located in Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica, is seeking to open a charter school for the performing arts. Planning problems forced the theater to withdraw its initial proposal last year, but it reapplied with the sta… Comments (0)

Dozens of Democrats welcomed now-former Republican Councilman Peter Koo of Flushing into the fold on Monday as he officially changed party affiliation. It was a Democratic love fest as Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens and the Bronx… Comments (0)

Richard Italiano, the district manager and former chairman of Community Board 4, died last Wednesday, Jan. 18. He was 59. Italiano collapsed while working at his desk, according to CB 4’s office and Dan Andrews, a spokesman for the … Comments (0)