Ridgewood News

From the Queens Campaigner : Queens members of Congress helped to lead the push for national immigration reform last week, co-sponsoring legislation to legalize millions of undocumented individuals that has drawn praise from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, foreign workers and immigrant rights activists in the borough.

The New York State Supreme Court has granted a stay of the city's controversial plan to rezone the 30-acre site known as the Broadway Triangle on the borders of Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick.

The City Council approved a proposal on Monday to rezone and develop housing in the Broadway Triangle, a blighted patch of Brooklyn that has defied such plans for decades, often amid bitter neighborhood disputes.

The units are flooded with sunlight. - Photo, left, by Jeremy Sapienza, all others courtesy of AptsandLofts.com It was just about a year and a half ago when the condominium at 326 Melrose Street was caught in the maelstrom we'll euphemistically call The Janet Corona Incident .

A Buchanan man charged with felony driving while intoxicated Thursday in Cortlandt is among six motorists charged with drunken driving during traffic stops in Westchester County, state police said today.

The crew of 'Emerging Past' sets up a scene in the office of Tribune Publisher Michael Schenkler .

Councilwoman Crowley in front of an abandoned newspaper stand that could be turned into a community space.

From Queens Rules : "She [Lisi De Bourbon] added that Queens enjoyed less landmarking status than Manhattan and Brooklyn because the borough developed later and less densely." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A response: "So, let's see - here's the round-up of historic district advocacy in Queens ...

City officials said at a Monday night Borough Board meeting that they are working to alleviate overcrowding at Queens schools by opening the Metropolitan Avenue campus in Forest Hills and a couple of elementary schools next year.

Lisa Menou shows off some of her holiday ornaments from huge exchange on Swap-bot.com site developed by Rachel Johnson and her husband.

A Queens fifth-grader who wanted to earn a Girl Scout service badge has helped collect a whopping 1,331 pounds of food for the Daily News-City Harvest food drive.

The buyers of a building in Ridgewood, Queens, were clearing out the basement of their new purchase when they came across a manual two-lane bowling alley buried under stacks of boxes.

Springtime in December: It's weird, but I love it! Tonight , enjoy one of the final yoga sessions at Starr Space .

The underdogs: Legal activist Marty Needelman, City Council member Diana Reyna, and El Puente organizer Luis Garden Acosta.

At today's Land Use Committee meeting, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley moved her colleagues to vote unanimously to designate the Ridgewood North Historic District.

Firemen walk through the remains of a knitting factory on Knickerbocker Avenue after fighting the "All Hands Fire," New York City's biggest fire until Sept.

Lost among Halloween's blog blitz was the terribly sad news that Michael Yaniro , bassist for hardcore sludge outfit Twin Stumps , was horrendously attacked two weeks ago in Ridgewood over $10 and a cell phone.

A man was struck in a driveby shooting on Nov. 4 - but the shooter's weapon was only a pellet gun.

A small white-washed basement on Gates Avenue, not unlike any other block in Ridgewood near the Myrtle-Wyckoff L/M - the middle of nowhere, to some - is the site of 15 years of collaboration between performance artists Genesis and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge .A The space served as their studio before Lady Jaye's untimely death in 2007.A Genesis - ...

The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House is tens of thousands of dollars closer to patching its dilapidated roof after its "Let's Raise the Roof" fundraiser.