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1 BR Coop for Sale @ Station Square in Forest Hills Gardens!!!
Jun 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 65 65 recommendations | email to a friend
Privacy and convenience are featured in this lovely Forest Hills Gardens Coop for sale. Offered for sale by George & Abigail Herrera of the Queens Home Team @ Keller Williams Realty Landmark II. T...
11th Annual RELAY FOR LIFE of Middle Village
Jun 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 138 138 recommendations | email to a friend
The American Cancer Society's RELAY FOR LIFE is a unique celebration of life in honor and in memory of those whose lives have been touched by cancer.  Relay for Life involves teams of people who ta...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: June 2013
Jun 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 131 131 recommendations | email to a friend
June 2013 Queens Market Update The recovery of the Queens housing market now appears to be well under way. While demand is still high even with credit conditions constraining buyers...
Is your sexual harassment policy effective?
Jun 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 113 113 recommendations | email to a friend
In our politically correct and litigious world, employers need to establish strong and specific policies regarding sexual harassment.  Not only is this behavior against the law but if a sexual har...
NY Estate Probate Attorney talks about Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Jun 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 108 108 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are an executor of an estate or an administrator of a trust, you are considered a fiduciary.  In either position you are required by law to ethically fulfill your fiduciary duties which are...
Business Owners Beware - Part 2
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 114 114 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 Employee testing & more… Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95...
Business Owners Beware
Jun 03, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 115 115 recommendations | email to a friend
Are you protecting your business? A column by John Rafferty – WATCH GUARD 24/7 It might be your employees... Each year millions of businesses fail; 50% of small businesses fail in the first year a...
NY Personal Injury Lawyers: The Importance of Treating Clients like Family
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 112 112 recommendations | email to a friend
Our Family Serving Yours for Over 60 Years When you suffer a serious injury, there is nothing more comforting than having caring family members at your side. Their support is part of the reco...
Brooklyn New York Divorce Attorney talks about NY Divorce Law Overhaul
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 110 110 recommendations | email to a friend
If you are looking for a shock and a laugh today, take a peek at . You’ll find a list of some of the silly, strange and/or outdated laws that are still technically in place in New York and New J...
Warning: Your social media policies may get you in trouble with the NLRB
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 115 115 recommendations | email to a friend
As social media becomes the norm in everyday life, federal regulators are getting touchy about employers creating policies that limit what employees can say online. In the past, employers ha...

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Dispatcher wrong on gay Scout decision
Dear Editor: This is in response to Frederick Bedell's letter in the June 6th edition in which he decries the Boy Scouts' decision to permit gay youth as "opposed to the principles of the Boy Scout...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Welcome to 1984
Dear Editor: The federal government has been accused of collecting data on all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as w...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Oppose the WEA
Dear Editor: I am strongly opposed to Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Women's Equality Act" because it includes language to expand abortion in New York State. New York leads the nation in its rate of abo...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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ConEd destroying trees
Dear Editor: They’ve struck again: the tree manglers hired by Con Edison to “trim” trees near overhead power lines. Trees are being mutilated and disfigured by the manglers cutting the centers out ...
Jun 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Willets Point fiasco
Dear Editor: Community Board 7’s vote two weeks ago to approve by a narrow margin the new expanded Willets Point plan further sealed the Iron Triangle’s fate. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now in a hu...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 76 76 recommendations | email to a friend
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Columnist right on with ferry observations
Dear Editor: I could not agree more with "The Importance of Rockaway Ferry Service" (Strictly Stasi - May 30). Our waterways are an underutilized natural asset which can offer significant transpor...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 69 69 recommendations | email to a friend
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Boy Scouts made a bad decision
Dear Editor: The Boy Scouts of America approved a resolution to allow gay youth to join the Boy Scouts, but not adults. Now that I find quite troubling. The Boy Scouts made a compromise that, in my...
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 63 63 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mayor Weiner? Why not!
Dear Editor: The news that former Congressman Anthony Weiner is going to run as a candidate in the New York City mayoral race is good. While his behavior a couple of years ago was not respectable, ...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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Return PS 130 to District 25
Dear Editor: PS 130, located at 200-01 42nd Avenue in Bayside, currently serves mainly District 25 students. The school, however, is geographically in District 26 and historically was a K-6 and K-8...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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Save city's newsstands
Dear Editor: Speaker Christine Quinn's recent proposal to allow newsstand operators to sell non-newspaper products for up to $10 versus today's current $5 limit makes sense. Prior to the 1962 newsp...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 49 49 recommendations | email to a friend
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Are we ready?
Dear Editor: Our planet’s climate is changing, and the impact on our daily weather has been extreme. Look at the tornado that hit Brooklyn and Northeast Queens, the Hurricane Sandy disaster, the am...
May 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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No to zo
nes for food trucks Dear Editor: Recent legislation introduced by Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick to limit the number of food trucks and establish “food truck zones” is disappointing to thousand...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 51 51 recommendations | email to a friend
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MTA fails again
Dear Editor: I wish I didn't have to write this letter, but the MTA monopoly failed the public trust once again. On May 14, at Beach 105th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard at 10:29 p.m. I waited...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Build the pipeline, just not for oil
Dear Editor: There is much talk, both positive and negative, relating to the XL Keystone Pipeline. It would pump crude tar sand oil from Canada across the U.S to Texas, where it would be refined an...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Remember the meaning of Memorial Day
Dear Editor: Memorial Day is fast approaching, and I hope it will not slip by with many forgetting the importance of this day. Memorial Day in my book is not just another day off to shop for sales...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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national news
Selma Blair abruptly exits 'Anger Management'

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, actress Selma Blair arrives at amfAR's Inspiration Gala in Los Angeles. In a brief statement Tuesday, June 18, 2013, series producer Lionsgate said that Blair won't be returning to "Anger Management," the FX sitcom starring Charlie Sheen. The company said it wished her "the very best" but had no further comment. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Selma Blair is making a sudden exit from the Charlie Sheen sitcom "Anger Management."


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Brazil protesters keep up pressure on government

Protestors gather in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Some of the biggest demonstrations since the end of Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship have broke out across this continent-sized country, uniting multitudes frustrated by poor transportation, health services, education and security despite a heavy tax burden. (AP Photo/Nelson Antoine)SAO PAULO (AP) — About 50,000 protesters energetically returned to the streets of Brazil's biggest city Tuesday night, a demonstration of anger toward what they call a corrupt and inefficient government that has long ignored the demands of a growing middle class.


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Singapore fumes as air pollution hits 16-year high

This photo taken on Monday, June 17, 2013 shows the Marina Bay Sands hotel and the Supertrees at Gardens By The Bay covered in haze. The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore’s main measure to determine air quality, crept into the “unhealthy” classification Monday as smoke from roaring blazes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island drifted across the sea and cast a gray pall over the city-state’s skyscrapers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)SINGAPORE (AP) — Singaporeans rolled back military training, kept cough-stricken children indoors and considered wearing protective masks to work after a smoky haze triggered by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia caused air pollution to briefly hit its worst level in nearly 16 years.


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