via The Queens Courier
A Tennis Revival for Forest Hills
Some 35 years after the U.S. Open fled to Flushing, the West Side Tennis Club is making a comeback.
Place: Queens
‘Virtue’ is in Eye of the Beholder
Queens residents are split on whether it's worth restoring Civic Virtue, an artwork that's been steeped in controversy for decades.
via Queens West Villager
Queens Chef is a Cooking Artist
Moustafa Abdur Rahman combines the fine and culinary arts at his Egyptian restaurant in Astoria.
via Voices of NY
Afghan Refugees Flock to Queens
The Fresh Meadows-based Women for Afghan Women is bracing for a surge of immigrants from the war-torn nation.
via The Queens Courier
Temples Confront Changing Times
As congregations shrinks, some Queens synagogues face a tough choice: close or merge.
via City Limits
Giving Citizens a Budgeting Voice
Residents of four City Council districts will soon vote on how to spend $1 million in their communities as part of a pilot program called participatory budgeting.
via Queens West Villager
Salvaging the Art of Recycling
Materials for the Arts – the city's largest non-profit municipal reuse program – offers artists thousands of items that otherwise would have been headed for the trash.
via New York Daily News
Concern Over Lead-Tainted Medicines
Officials blame banned supplements popular with South Asian immigrants for two recent non-fatal lead poisoning cases. But experts fear the problem could be more widespread.