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1 BR Coop for Sale @ Station Square in Forest Hills Gardens!!!
Jun 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 72 72 recommendations | email to a friend
Privacy and convenience are featured in this lovely Forest Hills Gardens Coop for sale. Offered for sale by George & Abigail Herrera of the Queens Home Team @ Keller Williams Realty Landmark II. T...
11th Annual RELAY FOR LIFE of Middle Village
Jun 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 147 147 recommendations | email to a friend
The American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE is a unique celebration of life in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by cancer.  Relay for Life involves teams of people who ta...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: June 2013
Jun 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 139 139 recommendations | email to a friend
June 2013 Queens Market Update The recovery of the Queens housing market now appears to be well under way. While demand is still high even with credit conditions constraining buyers...
Is your sexual harassment policy effective?
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 117 117 recommendations | email to a friend
In our politically correct and litigious world, employers need to establish strong and specific policies regarding sexual harassment.  Not only is this behavior against the law but if a sexual har...
NY Estate Probate Attorney talks about Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 112 112 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are an executor of an estate or an administrator of a trust, you are considered a fiduciary.  In either position you are required by law to ethically fulfill your fiduciary duties which are...
Business Owners Beware - Part 2
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 119 119 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 Employee testing & more… Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95...
Business Owners Beware
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 122 122 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 It might be your employees... Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year a...
NY Personal Injury Lawyers: The Importance of Treating Clients like Family
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 118 118 recommendations | email to a friend
Our Family Serving Yours for Over 60 Years When you suffer a serious injury, there is nothing more comforting than having caring family members at your side. Their support is part of the reco...
Brooklyn New York Divorce Attorney talks about NY Divorce Law Overhaul
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 115 115 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are looking for a shock and a laugh today, take a peek at . You’ll find a list of some of the silly, strange and/or outdated laws that are still technically in place in New York and New J...
Warning: Your social media policies may get you in trouble with the NLRB
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 120 120 recommendations | email to a friend
As social media becomes the norm in everyday life, federal regulators are getting touchy about employers creating policies that limit what employees can say online. In the past, employers ha...

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Alana Sweeny, Police Athletic League
Alana Sweeny was recently chosen to be the new Queens director of the Police Athletic League (PAL), making her the organization’s first female executive director since its founding in 1914. Sweeny ...
Mar 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Reverend Ben McKelahan
Lutheran Reverend Ben McKelahan has a plan to take the North Brooklyn art scene by storm – through the church. He arrived in Brooklyn on December 1 after going to seminary in Berkeley, California. ...
Mar 06, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Joe Fox
President, Forest Hills Jewish Center
Mar 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anthony Soriano, Music Therapist
Anthony Soriano loves his job as music therapist at Atria Senior Living in Kew Gardens. In fact, he doesn't view it as work. There, Soriano, known affectionately as Tony by residents, brings smile...
Mar 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Regina Myer, President of Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation
As president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBP), Regina Myer is the driving force behind building a scenic place for recreation and pleasure in North Brooklyn. Originally from Nassau Cou...
Mar 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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Seth Taylor
Executive Director, 82nd Street Partnership
Feb 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lexi Oliveri
Owner, Antoinette
Feb 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jacob Ganz, Odradek's Coffee House
After a Kew Gardens cafe was struggling to make ends meet, Jake Ganz decided to follow his business hunch and make a move. He met with the previous owner of the space – located right next to the Lo...
Feb 08, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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Pudge Fernandez, Producer/Comedian
Pudge Fernandez, an Elmhurst born-and-bred comedian and one of three independent comedy producers in Queens, has been putting on shows for the last three years all across the borough. From Forest H...
Feb 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anthony A. Manheim, Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council
Anthony A. Manheim calls himself a “Brooklynite by choice.” After growing up in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan and attending Haverford College briefly before attending Northwestern University ...
Feb 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
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Anandi Premlall, Community activist
If anyone is paying attention to the news in South Queens, one hot button issue is the prospect of a Queens Greenway at the abandoned LIRR tracks running along Woodhaven Boulevard, much like Manhat...
Jan 27, 2012 | 4 4 comments | 25 25 recommendations | email to a friend
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Michael Perlman Chair, Rego-Forest Preservation Council
Michael Perlman devotes his time to preserving relics in the Rego Park/Forest Hills area, hoping to keep its history alive. Perlman is chair of the Rego-Forest Preservation Council and vice preside...
Jan 17, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 42 42 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rebecca Parker and Elizabeth Bishop Business owners
In September of 2011, Rebecca Parker and Elizabeth Bishop opened Brooklyn Open Acupuncture with the goal to bring the alternative form of healing to many at an affordable price. And now, the owner...
Jan 17, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Andrea Slavin Up2Us Coach Across America
Queens College student Andrea Slavin has been named an Up2Us Coach Across America for summer 2012. And it is an opportunity that the sports lover is taking in with pride. Up2Us, a national nonprofi...
Jan 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alexandria Sica, Executive Director of DUMBO BID
As executive director of the DUMBO Business Improvement District (BID), Alexandria Sica devotes her time to developing the area's industry and appeal. After graduating from Brown University, Sica w...
Jan 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 27 27 recommendations | email to a friend
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President Barack Obama listens to French President Francois Hollande during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)BERLIN (AP) — Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."


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MIAMI (AP) — Country singer Slim Whitman has died at the age of 90 in Florida.
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(Blank Headline Received)By Marina Lopes MAPUTO (Reuters) - The Renamo opposition party, a former guerrilla organisation, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line out of Mozambique's vast coalfields in an effort to hurt the government. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo that disruption of the Sena line connecting the northwest region of Tete to the Indian Ocean port of Beira would last "as long as it takes". Renamo would "paralyse the movement of trains", he added. ...


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