via DNAInfo
Illegal Driveways Cut Corners
Check out our interactive map detailing curb-cut complaints.
Tag: Queens
Extending Gingerbread Lane
Master builder Jon Lovitch hopes to break his own world record by filling the New York Hall of Science with 1,020 gingerbread houses.
via The Queens Courier
Blind Marathoner’s Race to Help
Nooria Nodrat raises money to aid college-bound blind girls in her native Afghanistan.
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.