College-Point News

QUEENS park advocates are giving a yellow card to Mayor Bloomberg's plan to take part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for a soccer field - and then "replace" the lost greenspace with a new park several miles and neighborhoods away.

Parkland is "not the only thing people need," Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday as he defended plans to build a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

City Councilman Dan Halloran won't seek reelection this year, opting instead to focus on clearing his name in the face of corruption and bribery allegations , the Queens lawmaker said Wednesday in a statement published by Capital New York.

Gamma Chapter of Gamma Epsilon Tau, the national graphic arts honor society, will honor Mike Connors and Frank Romano at its 2013 Gold Key Awards ceremony in New York City on May 29.

Like many little girls, Veronica Siaba dreams of being a prima ballerina, but cerebral palsy means the 14-year-old can't stand on her own.

Plans to renovate the historic Poppenhusen Institute in College Point grabbed the most votes in District 19 in the recent participatory budgeting initiative.