Tour of Flushing Avenue - October 1 Walk for St. Mary's Hospital Kids - Walkathon at Flushing Meadows - October 1 Walk for the Cure of Juvenile Diabetes - Flushing Meadows - ... Read More

It's fall! My favorite season! Finally, you can bust out your corduroy and alpaca. Oooh! Classics never die, so bike over to Astoria Park. Admire the newly cleaned shoreline and ... Read More

No, Martha Stewart doesn't have her own line of Barbie clones. Designer toys, a.k.a. vinyl toys or urban vinyl, are the coolest-looking toys you'll ever find (thanks Bobbi). They're ... Read More

Urban Geographer and long-term Flushing resident Jack Eichenbaum is super busy these days. This weekend he leads a tour of Ridgewood and Maspeth, and later in October he's in ... Read More

The deadline for 2005 voter registration in NY State is October 14. That leaves just over two weeks to get your registration papers to the Board of ... Read More

This Saturday urban geographer Jack Eichenbaum leads a walking tour from Brooklyn...er...Kings to Queens along Flushing Avenue. Discover the colonial past of this asphalt avenue. It was once ... Read More

Astoria now has its own Japanese convenience store -- Family Market on Broadway. One of the great pleasures of a Japanese convenience store is the variety of drinks available. ... Read More

Gas prices are hurting everyone in Queens -- at the pump and at the stores as business raise prices to cover the big increases in energy costs. Landlords are ... Read More

Long Island City has become a New York art center with museums and working artists. What's not too well known is that local CUNY school -- LaGuardia Community College ... Read More

The NY Jets have taken a huge step toward building a new stadium in Flushing Meadows Park. The NY Times reports: "The Jets formally told the National Football League ... Read More

Last Night of Restaurant Week in Queens - September 23 Beauty Queens and the 36 Chambers of Shaolin - September 23 Octoberfest at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden - September 24 Walking Tour ... Read More

What a great weekend to live in Astoria! It's my luck to fill in today for Joey your favorite Astorian (who needed a vacation from her vacation) and ... Read More

Indian Day in Flushing is so big that it's two days. The Queens Library in Flushing hosts the India Day celebration from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and ... Read More

This Saturday caps the summer weekend events at Glendale's new Atlas Park mall-in-progress (the shops aren't open yet). There will be a performance by the Pulse Ensemble Theatre ... Read More

Wow! This Friday night Astoria has it all, or at least beauty pageant finalists and kung fu flicks. At the Museum of the Moving Image finalists from the ... Read More

There are two jazz events coming up at York College. The first is a play about the life of Miles Davis, and the second a free performance and jam ... Read More

This Saturday there's a walking tour of Old Astoria, sponsored by the Greater Astoria Historical Society, and led by tour guide Tony Rohling. Old Astoria is the area just ... Read More

Next Monday, September 26, is the final day of Greater New York, the big showcase of NYC emerging artists, at P.S. 1. It's a huge group show, and a fine ... Read More

Open Studios in Long Island City is a chance to see the innards of the thriving artist community in Queens. Fourteen studios will have open doors for visitors the second ... Read More

In celebration of the 90th birthday of Billie Holiday, join the Jamaica Jazz Tour, on October 15. The greater Jamaica area was home to many legends of jazz, including Billie ... Read More

Rockaway Fall Festival - September 17 and 18 NYC Bocce Championships - September 17 and 18 Junta Hispana at Flushing Meadows - September 18 Riker-Lent Homestead Tour - September 18

I'm on vacation this week, but here's a great event in Astoria this weekend. Shore is clean!!! Well, not quite. Actually, the Western Queens (that's us) shoreline is a ... Read More

Forgotten NY has up a great new photo tour tracing the length of Queens Boulevard from LIC to Jamaica (see part one and part two). I was happy to ... Read More

This weekend there's a rare chance to peek at the oldest farmhouse in Queens -- the Rick-Lent Homestead. That's Riker as in "Riker island," a long-established Dutch Colonial ... Read More

Junta Hispana is a big celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, and coincides roughly with the Independence Days of Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Flushing Meadows ... Read More

Queens-resident and student Jeff Chien-Hsing Lia has the #7 International Express subway on his eye. He just won the NY Times student photo contest with a brilliant series chronicling ... Read More

Yesterday I noticed the giant lingerie ad for Elle MacPherson Intimates covering both sides of a building along the LIE, across from LeFrak City. It's the first time that ... Read More

A recent Village Voice article praised the gigantic Salvation Army store on Steinway for finding cool clothes. Please don't call them "used" or "ABW - already been worn." They're ... Read More

Tomorrow, September 13, is the Democratic Primary in New York City. If you're a registered Democrat you can vote at your local polling place. The big contest is ... Read More

This Tuesday marks the sixth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and memorial events across Queens will remember the family, friends, and neighbors we lost ... Read More

Today at 4 p.m. Roger Federer, the defending champion, plays Andre Agassi, two-time US Open winner, in the men's finals. Federer definitely has the edge. He's younger and has ... Read More

Tonight Mary Pierce faces Kim Clijsters. of Belgium, in the Women's Singles Final at the US Open. Pierce is a veteran player at 30 years old who's playing some of ... Read More

September 11th Memorial Events - Events throughout Queens on September 10 and 11 Opening of 2005 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibit at Socrates Sculpture Park - September 10, from 2 to 6 ... Read More

I gotta tell ya, September got off to a bad start, folks. With disaster on our minds, the anniversary of our own City's crisis is going to be all the ... Read More

Last night veteran Andre Agassi, the oldest man playing singles tennis in the tournament, beat surging James Blake in a five-set epic, battling back from two sets to nothing. ... Read More

Yow! Filling up your car's gas tank hurts these days. The average price of gas has risen quickly since Katrina to over $3.25 a gallon at NYC pumps. Even ... Read More

Food Section, the Queens-based blog about all things food, has up a great post about foodways (but really drinkways) in New Orleans, written by a Southern Foodways Alliance historian. ... Read More

This month Flushing Town Hall hosts the second annual Freedom Fest, a celebration in several parts of Flushing's heritage and value of freedom of belief and expression. Flushing became ... Read More

The Queens Library -- our 63 public libraries -- is one of the biggest and most successful libraries in the country, and has renovated its website to better serve our ... Read More

Brazilian Independence Day at the Moving Image Museum - September 2 Warm-Up at P.S. 1 - September 3 - Last Warm-Up Party of the Summer "Wildman" Steve Brill - Foraging in Forest ... Read More

Could things look any more bleak? It's Labor Day weekend. New Orleans is submerged and you're stuck here in the City to contemplate it all. First order of business, check out Craig's ... Read More

The USTA announced that $500,000 in US Open proceeds will be donated to help hurricane relief efforts. Also the USTA is donating TV time for hurricane relief appeals from ... Read More