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Burton Grebin, the longtime president and chief executive officer of Bayside’s St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children, died last weekend, a spokeswoman for the hospital said. He was 68.Grebin, who was born in 1941, joined St. Mary’s in 1975 as its medical director and, in 1991…
The public review process began this week for a plan to rezone sections of Astoria for the first time in 49 years that includes height limits for buildings in the community as well as allowing for new commercial development.The project, which envisions a mixture of downzoning for Astoria’s…
A 41-year-old sanitation worker from Astoria was killed Tuesday morning after he was struck by a tractor-trailer truck and pinned under the vehicle at the corner of 35th Avenue and Ditmars Boulevard, the city’s sanitation commissioner said.Frank Justich, who had been an 11-year veteran of the city Sanitation…
Amtrak began taking down scaffolding from its train overpass on 31st Street in Astoria following a two-year maintenance and repair project that drew numerous complaints from community residents, City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria) said.The councilman is hoping Amtrak will now focus on repainting Astoria’s Hell Gate Bridge…
Perhaps we should start calling Sixth Avenue “the de-sandwiched zone” (DSZ).Residents of Park Slope will certainly feel that way, now that the notorious Vietnamese sandwich renegade Henry Huynh has abandoned his eponymous shop on Seventh Avenue and opened Home, a new Viet-style joint on Fifth Avenue between Fourth and…
Downtown community leaders voted last night to demand that US Attorney Eric Holder consider a new location — possibly West Point — to hold the 9/11 terror trial now slated for lower Manhattan.
Community Board 1′s unanimous vote came after a suggestion to move the trial from Manhattan…
It’s déjà vu all over again for Mayor Bloomberg.
The Republican-turned-independent Hizzoner yesterday said he has “no plans” to run for president. But that hasn’t kept him from reveling in the rampant speculation over the possibility — just as he did during the last presidential cycle.
The latest…
In the mind of every Jewish gourmand looms a question: Am I drinking a good wine — or is it just good for a kosher wine? Thanks to many years of abuse by the Manischewitz Co., we’re filled with self-loathing for our vino.
Distributor Royal Wine is trying to change…
Lunching recently at Alain Ducasse’s Benoit on West 55th Street, enjoying its luscious salmon en croute and pate for just $19, I mentioned to my friend that Ducasse — after 10 frustrating years in Escorts New York — had finally found his groove.
“It makes me forget about Mix,” my companion said…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand went ballistic on potential rival Harold Ford Jr. yesterday, unleashing a barrage of attacks a day after he rapped her as a “parakeet” for Democratic insiders in Washington.
“I really don’t know who Harold Ford thinks I am but I’m not gonna be pushed aside…