Starting next week, Glendale motorists will face alternating road closures in the area of 71st Avenue and Cooper Avenue in Glendale.
On 71st Avenue, from Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., there will be intermittent full bridge closures with detours in effect during work hours.
On Cooper Avenue, below the bridge, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., alternating eastbound and westbound lane closures will Inflatable Water Slide take place. The detour route will be in effect during work hours.
Police are looking for a man that they believe may have robbed a Glendale gas station last month.
According to police, on May 22, the suspect in the surveillance video below entered the gas station located at 73-38 Cooper Avenue and asked for a sports drink, before displaying a firearm to the 58-year-old clerk. The suspect demanded money from the clerk, who handed over approximately $1,000 in cash.
The suspect then subsequently fled the scene. He’s described as a black male, about 40-50 years old, weighing approximately 200-220 pounds.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
Queens Beer Week is upcoming and it’s coinciding with a special celebration from Glendale’s Finback Brewery – a second birthday.
This Sunday, at 1 p.m., the brewery is tapping some special beers and celebrating two years of brewing some of the borough’s best beer. They’ll also be releasing Oscillation 4 in a can and BQExC in a bottle.
Throughout the day, pop-up food stand Gaddy Lane will be serving up delicious food.
Finback Brewery is located at 78-01 77th Ave. in Glendale. For more information about the event, check it out on Facebook.
State Senator Joe Addabbo poses with one of the new decorative lamp posts in Glendale.
New decorative lamps are popping up in Glendale thanks to State Senator Joe Addabbo who fought to preserve the funds.
“The funding and installation of decorative lighting in Glendale is something for which I have advocated for many years now,” said Addabbo. “I am thrilled to finally see the cooperative efforts of my office, constituents and the city result in this new lighting. By following through with this funding request from the community, it proves to New Yorkers everywhere that every issue brought to light is important and can be successfully addressed with the right combination of hard work, determination and patience.
“These decorative lights will add to the charm and character that Glendale already possesses, and I thank Serf Maltese for the original allocation and the NYC DOT for finally using the funds to make this project a reality,” he added.
According to Addabbo, the Inflatable Water Slide decorative lighting was originally requested by residents to place the old grey lamp posts in certain areas.
So far, new lamps have gone up along 88th Street and the DOT plans to install the posts along 74th Avenue from 88th Street to Woodhaven Boulevard, Rutledge Avenue from 88th Street to Woodhaven Boulevard, and Doran Avenue from 88th Street to Woodhaven Boulevard.
The total cost of the project, according to Addabbo, is expected to around $487,000.
Vincent Arcuri, Jr., the chairman of Queens Community Board 5 is calling on Mayor de Blasio to rescind the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) permits that were approved last year that would allow for 78-16 Cooper Avenue in Glendale to become transitional housing for homeless individuals run by Samaritan Village.
In the letter dated April 1, Arcuri applauds the de Blasio administration’s commitment to developing industrial properties in Queens and points out that 78-16 Cooper Avenue could be perfect as an incubator.
“This existing, approximately 50,000 square foot building that once housed aircraft manufacturers, cabinet makers and knitting mills could, with relatively little investment, become a major incubator site,” Arcuri writes.
In closing, Arcuri asks de Blasio to rescind the permits approved by the DOB last march and urge the New York City Economic Development Corporation to enter negotiations with the current owners to restore industrial usage to the property.
A court order closing an illegal massage parlor in Glendale this past December.
Police in the NYPD 104th precinct continued their crackdown on illegal massage parlors with a batch of arrests on Tuesday night.
According to NYPD Det. Thomas Bell, the four females were arrested byQueens North’s Vice Enforcement at parlors on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood and Myrtle Avenue in Glendale. He could not specific the exact locations due to active investigations.
In Ridgewood, Yun Qin Lin, 33, was arrested for practicing without a massage license as well as prostitution. Her co-worker, Ling Lu, 29, was also arrested for. practicing without a massage license.
At the spa on Glendale’s Myrtle Avenue, both Hua Li Chen, 51 and Ning Fang Zheng, 30, were arrested for practicing without a massage license.
A local Glendale Chef made his silver screen debut last night. Vinny Accardi, of Room 55 on 88th Street in Glendale, appeared on CNBC’s Restaurant Startup last night and walked away victorious.
According to a recap of the episode, Accardi accepted $100,000 in funding from Joe Bastianich – a television restaurant personality – in exchange for a 25 percent stake of what will be called 55 Steak.
Accardi invited locals down the restaurant last night to watch it with him and has been the target of local praise on social media today.
Three masked gunmen robbed a Glendale pharmacy of various prescription medicines yesterday, according to police.
Police said that the gunman entered the pharmacy, located at 75-21 Myrtle Ave., at around 12:48 p.m., and approached two male employees. One of the suspects displayed a firearm, while the other two jumped over the counter and demanded employees turn over prescription medication using a handwritten note.
After getting the medication, the suspects tied up the two employees, aged 40 and 39, using zip-ties on their hands. Then then took both employees wallets castillo hinchable and fled the store, heading westbound on Myrtle Avenue.
The suspects were last seen wearing black pants, black sweaters and black sneakers.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
Elected officials representing Glendale, Middle Village and Ridgewood secured more time for residents to sound off about plans to increase the amount of waste that rail cars transport through their communities.
DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens agreed to grant a 30-day extension after U.S. Reps. Grace Meng and Nydia Velázquez, State Senator Joseph Addabbo, Assemblymen Andrew Hevesi and Michael Miller, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley and Borough President Melinda Katz wrote a letter requesting they do so.
The public can now submit comments through August 9. The previous deadline was July 10. The comment period began on June 22.
For the One World Recycling permit, the public can submit written comments by email to OneWorldRecycling@dec.ny.gov or by regular mail to: Mark Carrara, NYSDEC, SUNY at Stony Brook, 50 Circle Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790-3409.
For the Costal Distribution permit, the public can submit written comments by email to NYAR.Coastal@dec.ny.gov or by regular mail to: NYSDEC, Susan Ackerman, SUNY at Stony Brook, 50 Circle Road, Stony Brook, NY 11790-3409
The DEC will use the public comments as a factor in deciding whether or not to issue the permits.
The New York and Atlantic Railway transports debris on freight rail cars through the Fresh Pond Rail Yard, the tracks for which run along residential communities in Glendale, Middle Village and Ridgewood.
Community groups originally raised concern earlier this month about uncovered debris being carried by rail cars: http://www.queensledger.com/view/full_story/26701689/article-Advocacy-group–locals-call-for-debris-to-be-covered?
A 56-year-old man was threatened and robbed by three men near the corner of Central Avenue bouncy castle and 66 Street in Glendale on June 2 at about 2:55 a.m.
The perpetrators fled the scene but were soon caught by officers. Charges against the men are pending.
