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Photos: Jackson Heights Halloween Parade celebrates 33 years of community. Nov. 5, 2024 By Ramy Mahmoud and Queens Post Staff. The annual Jackson Heights Halloween Parade, a beloved tradition in Queens, returned to 37th Avenue on Thursday, Oct. 31, drawing thousands of attendees who came to celebrate with friends, neighbors, and family.
Jackson Heights Families Displaced by Eight-Alarm Fire to Get …
April 19, 2021 By Christina Santucci. More than 100 families displaced by an eight-alarm fire in Jackson Heights earlier this month will be able to stay in emergency lodging until June 20, the mayor announced Friday. “The city will provide Queens families displaced from this month’s fire with an extra two months of temporary housing to get …
New Irish bar coming to Jackson Heights this fall, from the owner …
Aug. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien. The owner of a well-known establishment on the border of Woodside and Astoria, the Brewery Bar and Kitchen, is opening a new Irish bar in Jackson Heights, with plans to open by the fall.. Padraic Sheridan, a native of Ireland’s County Cavan who opened the Brewery Bar ten years ago, acquired a derelict building at 82-19 Northern Blvd. in Jackson Heights and ...
Jackson Heights back-to-school giveaway distributes over 1,000 ...
Sep 3, 2024 · It is currently estimated that 320,000 students across the state still lack access to free meals, despite $135 million in 2023 and $145 million in 2024 allocated in the state budget to expand school meals.
Restaurant Food Crawl Returning to Jackson ... - Jackson Heights …
March 29, 2022 By Michael Dorgan. A community-led group is hosting guided food crawls through Jackson Heights next month. The restaurant crawls, which will see participants visit a diverse mix of local eateries to savor takeout food, will take place on April 9 and April 23.
Jackson Heights Leaders Show Support for Residents Left …
Apr 13, 2021 · A GoFundMe – with the goal of $450,000 – has so far collected more than $333,000 in donations.. Several displaced residents said they feared having to take refuge in the city’s shelter system. They worried that larger families would be separated into smaller groups and that they would be forced to commute long distances for work and school if …
Annual Momo Crawl returns to Jackson Heights this Sunday
Sept. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien. An annual food crawl celebrating the Tibetan and Nepalese dumpling, called “the momo,” will return to Jackson Heights this Sunday.. The 12th Annual Momo Crawl will run from 12-5 p.m. at Diversity Plaza on Sunday, Sept. 15. Around 1,100 tickets have already been sold for the event, with organizers hoping to …
Jackson Heights man sentenced for 'brutal murder' of wife in front …
May 11, 2023 By Bill Parry. A Jackson Heights man on May 11 was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for stabbing his wife to death in front of her daughter in July 2020.
City Officials and Flushing Residents Unveil Memorial in Honor of ...
Nov. 11, 2021 By Christian Murray. Elected officials and community leaders cut the ribbon on a new commemorative plaza at a long-forgotten Flushing graveyard where more than 1,000 people, most of whom were African American or Native American, were laid to rest in the 1800s—before the city took over the site in 1914 to build a playground.
Street vendors will return to Corona Plaza in scaled-down …
Nov 28, 2023 · Four months after they were banished from Corona Plaza, street vendors will return under a new plan announced by Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The first-ever regulated community vending area at Corona Plaza will include an initial group of 14 street vendors —10 of them serving food — who will be required to have necessary city permits.
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