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How Dangerous Is Texting While Driving Compared with Drunk Driving?
Oct 15, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Why Texting While Driving May Be More Dangerous than DWI It may come as a surprise that texting while driving is more worrisome to the majority of drivers than drunk driving. This is true despite t...
What the New Anti-Sexual Harassment Law Means for NY Employers
Oct 08, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 107 107 recommendations | email to a friend
Is There Liability You Could Face that You Did Not Face in the Past? The NYS new anti-harassment law has a number of sweeping changes. For one, it applies to all protected classes under New York Hu...
OPENING A FRANCHISE BUSINESS DOESN'T GUARANTEE SUCCESS
Oct 04, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 196 196 recommendations | email to a friend
INTERVIEW WITH RIDGEWOOD REAL ESTATE BROKER Anthony Carbi Look at Taco Bell they have Beefy Fritos Burrito for $1.00 dollar. We are talking about maybe half of the $3.49 cents as a profit. Or $1.74...
Oct 04, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 151 151 recommendations | email to a friend
Example you rent a store for $6,000 dollars. You still have to pay electric, heat, water and at least two salary’s for someone to open and close the place besides serving customers weekly. So now y...
HOW CAN A BUSINESS/FRANCHISE OWNER MAKE MONEY TODAY?
Oct 04, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 133 133 recommendations | email to a friend
Example you rent a store for $6,000 dollars. You still have to pay electric, heat, water and at least two salary’s for someone to open and close the place besides serving customers weekly. So now y...
Register Now for Fall Dance in Forest Hills!
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 252 252 recommendations | email to a friend
The fall session of children's dance classes at the Commonpoint Queens Central Queens School of Dance begins this Sunday, September 15. Space is still available in our Sunday Ballet/Tap class for 5...
Elevator Accident: New York Premises Liability Law
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1050 1050 recommendations | email to a friend
Tragic Elevator Accident from a Legal Perspective A fatal elevator accident occurred at a 23-story Manhattan apartment building near the end of August. The elevator malfunction killed a 30-year old...
Falls from Ladders Can Result in Serious Injury or Death
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1053 1053 recommendations | email to a friend
Safety Tips from OSHA to Avoid Falling from a Ladder Falls from ladders are the leading cause of death in the construction industry. In fact, according to   OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Adm...
The Van De Water Law Firm, P.C. Opens New Office
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 1040 1040 recommendations | email to a friend
The Long Island firm has relocated its office to Woodbury, New York Press Release - updated: Sep 11, 2019 20:28 EDT WOODBURY, N.Y., September 11, 2019 (Newswire.com) - The Van De Water Law Firm, P....
Details of the NY Anti-Sexual Harassment Law for 2019
Sep 12, 2019 | 0 0 comments | 970 970 recommendations | email to a friend
The New NY Anti-Sexual Harassment Law: What Employers Should Know Additional New York State anti-sexual harassment law protections came into existence in August 2019. Under the new law, sexual hara...

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Three men and a lady
We headed back into the archives and pulled out this photo of what looks like a land use discussion at Borough Hall. That is of course former Queens borough president Claire Shulman with three gent...
May 03, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 822 822 recommendations | email to a friend
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De Blasio versus ‘the party of Trump’
Last week, Councilman Eric Ulrich threw his support behind controversial mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, whose brash and outspoken style has drawn comparisons to President Donald Trump, a comparison Di...
May 03, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 900 900 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ulrich supports 'Anyone But Bill de Blasio?'
An elected official considered to be a rising star in the Queens County Republican Party – and citywide, for that matter – has thrown his support behind a candidate for mayor who isn't even registe...
Apr 25, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 999 999 recommendations | email to a friend
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Revisiting the good old bad days of NYC
We ran this undated photo from our archives last week asking readers to help us identify the people and any other information they could provide, and longtime readers Larry Penner and Jeff Gottlieb...
Apr 19, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 955 955 recommendations | email to a friend
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The good old bad days of NYC
We came across this snapshot while digging though our unarchived photos recently, a pretty stark reminder of what the subways used to look like back when New York City was caught in the throes of a...
Apr 11, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 931 931 recommendations | email to a friend
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A groundbreaking in Forest Hills, perhaps?
This is an old photo we found in our archives that we ran a few weeks back asking for help identifying some of the people in the photo, and last week we ran a response from Jeff Gottlieb, president...
Apr 04, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 1004 1004 recommendations | email to a friend
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An event in Forest Hills, perhaps?
We ran this undated photo from our archives a couple of weeks back asking for help identifying some of the people in it, and we got a response from Jeff Gottlieb of the Central Queens Historical So...
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 1009 1009 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cold reception at cocktail party
The redevelopment of gritty Willets Point across the street from Citi Field has always been a contentious issue. From what to do with both the large and small businesses that called the “Iron Trian...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 1006 1006 recommendations | email to a friend
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Is a former pol back on the scene?
It looks like a former Queens politician is looking to get back in the game. Former councilman Hiram Monserrate has been slightly more visible in the community since he was forced from office (more...
Mar 08, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 837 837 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Queens County GOP speaks!
For years – no, decades! - the infighting among the Queens County Republican Party has been a horribly kept secret. Outside of perhaps Staten Island, Queens is the borough where the Republican Part...
Feb 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 776 776 recommendations | email to a friend
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The woman at the heart of the photo speaks
For the past two weeks, we ran this undated photo from our archives of a group of people standing on top of the Panorama at the Queens Museum, asking readers if they could help us put some names to...
Jan 25, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 918 918 recommendations | email to a friend
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The dignitaries on top of the city
We ran this photo from our archives of several dignitaries standing on top of the Panorama in the Queens Museum asking for help identifying the folks in the photo, and got responses from two longti...
Jan 25, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 862 862 recommendations | email to a friend
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GOP leader takes aim at #angryjimmy
Quick Pol Position game: can you find and circle all of the differences between the two photos above? We would give you the answers, but we're guessing it wasn't too difficult! A member of the GOP ...
Jan 11, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 987 987 recommendations | email to a friend
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Stadning on top of NYC
We headed back to our photo archives during the holiday week, we found his photo of a group of folks standing right on top of the Panorama at the Queens Museum. If you've never had a chance to see ...
Jan 03, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 1177 1177 recommendations | email to a friend
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Share your post-election thoughts
Do you live out in northeast Queens and find it inconvenient to schlep all the way into Manhattan to leave your own thoughts on post-election America in the tunnel connecting the 14th Street statio...
Dec 20, 2016 | 0 0 comments | 985 985 recommendations | email to a friend
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