Li Feng Jun – or Master Li, as he is known on the crowded streets of Flushing – is a Chinese fortune-teller who offers advice and a purported peak into the future from his perch near the Main Street LIRR station.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson led a march to a Laurelton house surrounded by weeds after calling for a new civil rights movement to fight rising foreclosures and high-cost lending that have plagued minorities disproportionately - and southeast Queens, in particular. “This is the economic crisis of our time,†Jackson said.
A recent hate attack on two young men underscored anti-gay feelings in the Bronx, where many homosexuals hide their orientation out of fear.
Some South Bronx tenants contend already-poor housing conditions have worsened since a group of private investors took over their buildings. But the buildings’ new manager says a multi-million-dollar rehabilitation of the properties is underway.
Immigrant laborers who left loved ones behind find a temporary salve for loneliness at nightspots like the Flamingo Club in Jackson Heights, where the price of fleeting companionship is $2 a dance.
Bike polo players and local kids who play in the Lower East Side’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park have banded to fight a proposal to turn a flat space of blacktop called “the pit†into a dogrun.
Maspeth residents are furious over plans to place a 27-foot-plus cell phone antenna – disguised as a flagpole – atop a private home. See story for a link to a map of cell phone towers in the city.
When P.S. 209 principal Jacquelyn Cannon died in May, parents, teachers and students wanted to make sure the Bronx school retained the spirit of its much-loved leader. Now they're vying to honor the "mother of the school" by renaming P.S. 209 and part of 183rd St. in her honor.