Jackson-Heights News

A neighborhood group is organizing a cleanup of an abandoned cemetery this weekend that activists would like to one day turn into a park.

Mustard seed, curry leaf, turmeric, walnuts and cranberries. These may not be standard ingredients in the dishes of most Staten Islanders but, together, they gave diverse but subtle flavor to the dish that won the People's Choice award at Staten Island Advance's annual Taste-off last month.

Celina Alvarez and other members of Make the Road New York chant "Si se puede" outside a restaurant owned by the shady boss who they say shorted her nearly $5,000.

In a materialistic world many people are losing faith on the supernatural consistently.

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2 Line: Trains will run local in both directions between 96th Street and 42nd Street from 12:01 a.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. Monday.

A movie written more than two decades ago by a Sundance Film Festival-honored artist who has since died was recently completed by a Jackson Heights filmmaker and will make its Queens debut Friday as part of the Queens World Film Festival .

While some charter operators rallied in Albany this week with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, others were working more quietly behind the scenes.

According to an announcement posted on his site Tuesday , Hikind's ads asking, "Would you be a Nazi's neighbor?" will be appearing in newspapers and bus stops around New York starting Wednesday.

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Police Officer Michael Konatsotis, center, laughs as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, reaches out to his partner, Police Officer David Roussine, left, during a news conference at City Hall on March 3, 2014.

This week families in and around Western Queens can enjoy the following special activities below, including a unique program celebrating poetry from around the Muslim world.

Exactly what process is involved in conferring an outrageous financial meaning to a contemporary work of art? Is there an international committee of art ephors in the Himalayas who look at and assess a work and decide that it is so meaningful, relevant and transformational that it has to be bought by a wealthy art buyer immediately and then placed ... (more)

The annual Tibetan New Year celebration, the biggest holiday for Tibetan and Nepali immigrants, will be kicking off next week in Jackson Heights with several days of celebration.

Jackson Heights residents say a local Starbucks has been leaving open bags of food waste and coffee grounds on 79th Street "for several years," and despite attempts to get through to the coffee shop's management and corporate headquarters, there's been no change.

As city government started work on the Vision Zero Action Plan, statistics professor Ben Wellington saw an opportunity to use data on crashes and fatalities to show the magnitude of the challenge.

Following Mayor Bill de Blasio announcement that he will break with a recent tradition and refuse to march in the Fifth Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade, the City Council has announced it will do the same.

The director's cut of an Oscar-nominated documentary will premiere at a Queens film festival which brings movies from around the world to the borough in March.

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