Halloween is here! Most Halloween festivities in Queens happened last weekend. Most action on the 31st is all local. The biggest event on Tuesday is the ... Read More

Briarwood is a quiet, residential neighborhood in central Queens, just north of downtown Jamaica and bordering Kew Gardens and Jamaica Hills. Housing is a mix of apartment buildings, three-families, ... Read More

Halloween Events in Queens Pick Your Own Pumpkin - Through October 29 (Sats/Suns only) Friday Shocktoberfest at Flushing Meadows - October 27 Meet the Paranormal Adventurers at Flushing Library - October ... Read More

This weekend expect two-faced weather, with rain and wind on Saturday (boo!) and a bright and sunny Sunday (yay!). However, if you happen to get off work early on ... Read More

Cops Beef Up Patrols Around Vallone House [Tribune] Political Opinion Of Hevesi Mixed Among Queens Voters [NY 1] Drilling for oil-spill tests [Daily News] Boro Leaders Celebrate Rail Link ... Read More

Halloween, beer, Queens -- three of my favorite things are the basis for a family-friendly party happening this Sunday at Bohemian Hall. Celebrating both Halloween and the release of ... Read More

Queens Vendor Wins Pushcart Award [NY Times] Samiul Haque Noor who cooks up spicy Pakistani chicken and lamb at Sammy's Halal (73rd St & Broadway, Jackson ... Read More

Fort Totten in Bayside opened its doors just last year as a park, the latest park serving northeastern Queens. The former U.S. Army fort is on one of Queens' ... Read More

Halloween Events in Queens Pick Your Own Pumpkin - Through October 29 (Sats/Suns only) Friday Oscar Hernandez & the Spanish Harlem Orchestra - October 20 Yanira Castro + Company - ... Read More

This great fall weather just begs for strolls. The sun will be out, so why not check out some of the newer shops in the area? The diversity is pretty ... Read More

A hand in every till - Queens Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin [Daily News] Politics, Spoken in Punjabi [NY Times] Con Ed Says July Blackout Was Beyond Its Control [NY Times] ... Read More

There's no joy in Flushing. Carlos Beltran has struck out. The Mets took it to the last pitch of the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 ... Read More

The Village Voice has published its Best of NYC for 2006 with about 18 Queens restaurants ranked. Search through them all at VV. And here are a couple ... Read More

Dang! Closing pitcher Billy Wagner sure did make the ninth inning dramatic. After a great pitching game by starter John Maine and bullpen reliever, the Cardinals had been held ... Read More

The new crop of art opens at PS 1 at the end of the month, October 29. High on my list of to-see is the exhibit The Gold Standard, ... Read More

The Mets fell back three games to two in the National League pennant race against the Cardinals. The mighty bats of Sunday night were quiet tonight with but one ... Read More

The Mets bounced back this evening in a big way, shellacking the Cardinals 12 to 5 to tie the National League Playoffs at two games apiece. Player of the ... Read More

Seen any Mets fans holding signs that say "we believe" or "ya gotta believe." That's the Mets rally cry from the 1973 season when they went from last place ... Read More

The Cardinals starting pitcher Jeff Suppan didn't leave the game to chance with eight shutout innings. Not only did he limit the Mets to handful of hits, but he knocked ... Read More

Despite an offense that got the Mets off to an early lead, the Mets lost to the Cardinals 9-6 in the second game of the National League Championships. On ... Read More

Last night was a delight with starting pitchers Tom Glavine and Jeff Weaver battling it out until the sixth inning when Carlos Beltran whacked a huge two-run homer, ... Read More

Mets Playoffs Schedule Halloween Events in Queens Pick Your Own Pumpkin - Through October 29 (Sats/Suns only) Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly - October 13-15 Friday Mark Nadler's Broadway Hootenanny ... Read More

Well, it's finally feeling like fall, what with these cooler temperatures. A great way to welcome fall is to head on over to Socrates Sculpture Park for their Halloween ... Read More

Glavine and Beltrán Make It Worth the Wait [NY Times] Hunters Point Historic Dictrict Rated Top 10 Block in NYC [Time Out NY] With a New Look, a Museum Hopes to ... Read More

The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Kabab Cafe [Gothamist] Chef-owner Ali of the Kabab Cafe (25-12 Steinway St) convinces Famous Fat Dave to include his restaurant ... Read More

You knew Queens was a big place, but nothing could make that clearer than this week's media attention on cowboys in Howard Beach and a 350-year-old privately owned Dutch farmhouse a ... Read More

Halloween in Queens kicks off this Saturday at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. At this free event, kids can create their own costumes and paint pumpkins. ... Read More

Does you dog like to dress up as a ghost? You're in luck this weekend. Queens hosts two dog costume contests on the same day. In the Rockaways there's ... Read More

Mets Post-Season Schedule Star Trek Voyages to Astoria, Queens - Opens October 6, 2006 - through April 15, 2007 Recycle Old Computers at Queens College - October 7 Open House New ... Read More

I am proud to announce that October is Portuguese wine month! Never had any? I'm a little biased, but I must say its damn good :). For a great selection, ... Read More

Black Incomes Surpass Whites in Queens [NY Times] Senators Say Queens Peer Will Become Minority Chief [NY Times] Shelter From the Storm [NY Times] Bye-Bye Two-Families, Hello Six [NY Times] Waterfront ... Read More

This weekend, October 7 and 8, check out 18 architectural gems of Queens, all free, courtesy of Open House New York. The two I want to see this year ... Read More

"Mama's Of Corona" Hopes Their Food Helps Mets Continue Winning [NY 1] "A key ingredient in the Mets success this year may be from a local ... Read More

Tonight the Amazing New York Mets meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in their first post-season game since 2000 and the first under General Manager Omar Minaya and Coach Willie Randolph. ... Read More

The Queensboro Kennel Club's annual Dog Show is October 27 and 28, followed the next day by the Bronx Kennel Club's show at the same spot in Cunningham Park. ... Read More

Star Trek comes to the Museum of the Moving Image this October in the form of 40 years of fan culture. The museum's exhibit shows more than 600 items ... Read More