By Nathaly Pesantez
No need to travel to Manhattan or Brooklyn to take a civil service exam for a city job anymore.
A computer based testing center for civil service exams opened in Forest Hills Thursday, with the aim of increasing access to the exam and city job opportunities.…
July 21, By Jason Cohen
After 18 years in Forest Hills, Empire Deli on Austin Street will shutter its doors Saturday.
Ye Chen, 40, of Fresh Meadows, who took over the store at 71-61 Austin Street eight years ago,…
July 18, By Nathaly Pesantez
Motorists can pay for on-street parking in Queens and citywide using their phones, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today.
ParkNYC is a mobile phone app that will allow motorists across the five boroughs to pay for parking remotely.…
July 18, By Jason Cohen
A Japanese restaurant will be opening on Austin Street in 2018 next door to Victoria’s Secret.
The restaurant, to be called Tamashii Red, will open at 71-34 Austin Street in March 2018 and will focus heavily on ramen.…
July 17, By Jason Cohen
A Spectrum technician who was suspected of cutting fiber optic cables last month in Forest Hills that led to a massive internet outage has not been prosecuted, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced on Friday.…
July 17, By Nathaly Pesantez
It was business as usual for Mayor Bill de Blasio and city officials as they stepped into work today, only this time, they are working from Queens for an entire week.
Beginning Monday, July 17,…
July 13, By Jason Cohen
Independent filmmakers will be flocking to Queens next month for the first-ever Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema.
Local filmmaker and organizer Jayson Simba will be screening more than 150 films from 24 countries during 10 days in August,…
July 11, By Jason Cohen
Commuters looking to take the E and the F from Forest Hills to Jamaica will need to find another option for the next four weekends.
The MTA is shutting down the E and F lines between 71st-Continental Avenues in Forest Hills and Jamaica each weekend through Aug.…
July 7, By Jason Cohen
A business on the Lefferts Blvd. Bridge in Kew Gardens has had electrical outages for nearly two weeks and its power may not be fully restored anytime soon.
PK’s Farm Fresh, a grocery store at 81-15 Lefferts Blvd,…
July 5, By Jason Cohen
A plan put forward by a local engineer might save the bridge that goes over the Long Island Railroad on Lefferts Boulevard from being demolished and the 13 stores on it.
Al Brand, a retired engineer and member of the Kew Gardens Civic Association,…