Woodside News

Shafin Ahammed files a notice of claim, a precursor to a lawsuit, accusing the city of negligence when rescuers were sent to the wrong address during a fire which killed three men and injured four.

MTA cuts: So what else is new? Woodside : Re "Big MTA cuts will leave N.Y.ers hanging" : Just raise the fare another dime for two years.

The controversial new 911 dispatching system has an error rate of less than 1% - and is working just fine, the mayor's office said Thursday in a vigorous defense of a change critics say is putting lives at risk.

Here in Woodside, Queens, Carmen Ledesma employs nine women in her Parisien Beauty Salon, a business she started 16 years ago on Roosevelt Avenue after moving to the United States from Paraguay.

From the Queens Chronicle : A Woodside convert to Islam who openly sympathizes with al-Qaeda and the Taliban says he has left the country.

PEMA SHERPA was opening the door of his rented yellow cab when the first blow came.

S tony Brook, L.I.: What a surreal experience to read about one's school closing while sitting down to grade essays in that very same building .

The cast of 'Flanagan's Wake' hams it up on stage. . Tears are a customary occurrence at any wake, and 'Flanagan's Wake' is no exception; but rather than sobs of sorrow, salty droplets will stream down your face from gut- wrenching laughter during this interactive off-Broadway production.

Food lovers from throughout Queens descended upon about 30 street carts on Roosevelt Avenue Sunday, munching on everything from pumpkin quesadillas to an Ecuadorian shrimp dish during a 2-mile walk planned by Woodside resident Jeff Orlick meant to peak people's awareness of the tasty eats in Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona.

An unidentified man was hit by a Long Island Rail Road train about 6:40 p.m. Friday evening, just west of the Woodside station.

The fire that roared through the illegally subdivided basement of a Queens house in the early morning of Nov.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 Sunnyside Post The New York State Senate rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made New York the sixth state to allow gay marriage, stunning advocates such as Jimmy Van Bramer, the NYC councilman-elect who represents Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City.

The New York City fire department is temporarily changing the process by which 911 calls reporting fires are handled.

A deadly blaze that killed three people in a two-family Queens house at 42-38 65th Street, and revealed the numerous unregulated apartments divided within, has drawn a keen eye toward the growing problem of illegal apartments in the five boroughs.

For at least two years before a fire killed three men in an illegally divided house next door, Diane Ross and her family lived in an illegal apartment at 42-38 65th Street in Woodside, Queens.

The lobby of 650 Fifth Avenue. The building is owned by The Alavi Foundation. "The Alavi Foundation has effectively been a front for the government of Iran," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara , who sued to grab more than $500 million in assets.

From the Village Voice : This house, at 42-40 65th Street in Woodside, had been inspected twice by Buildings Department inspectors -- in 1990 and in 2004 -- in response to complaints that there were "extra rooms" in the basement.

TheA QueensA deathtrap where three men perished in a raging fire was twice the target of a city investigation into illegally converted apartments, officials said Sunday.

Firefighters try to save a victims life at the scene of a triple fatal fire in Woodside, Queens.

The fire department responded early Saturday morning to a fire that originated in the illegally subdivided basement of a house in Woodside.