via The Queens Courier
Blind Marathoner’s Race to Help
Nooria Nodrat raises money to aid college-bound blind girls in her native Afghanistan.
Place: Queens
Meet Queens’ ‘Qustodian’
Jeff Orlick’s alter ego is The Queens Qustodian, a one-man cleanup crew who tears down illegal street signs and tackles other urban blemishes.
via DNAInfo.com
A ‘Maple Street’ For Queens
A street named after Jack Maple, the late former NYPD deputy commissioner credited with engineering the city's historic crime drop, is on tap for Richmond Hill.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
Kosher Soup Kitchen Struggles
The Masbia soup kitchen, which serves Jewish and non-Jewish clients, expects to serve up to 1.5 million meals this year — twice the number doled out in 2013.
via The Wall Street Journal
Marking World’s Fair History
Amid the anniversaries of the 1939 and 1964 festivals, take a then-and-now look at the Queens fairgrounds.
via New York Daily News
Street Vendors Told to Hit Road
Legal peddlers in Sunnyside charge they're being unfairly targeted.
A Flight from Sandy to Santa
Students whose Queens neighborhood is still recovering from Superstorm Sandy got an early holiday present: a visit with Santa Claus.