Spring Returns to Jamaica Bay

Spring Returns to Jamaica Bay

Abundant Wildlife (but also Debris) Inundates New York’s Most Important Estuary By Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy Spring is nearly here, and with warmer temperatures Jamaica Bay will welcome new life. Plankton and algae will emerge, salt marshes will be...
PS/MS 183 Demands Respect for Paraprofessionals

PS/MS 183 Demands Respect for Paraprofessionals

On Tuesday, March 18, the staff at PS/MS 183 on Beach 79th Street wore Respect for Paraprofessionals shirts to convey the importance for the city to support the additional $10,000 respect check for paraprofessionals. The action is part of an effort to get City Council...
‘Spamalot’ Gallops into Rockaway

‘Spamalot’ Gallops into Rockaway

With coconuts clapping, broadswords brandishing, merry minstrels maligning, tap dancers tapping, lapins leaping and one golden Grail, Monty Python’s wildly comic musical “Spamalot” comes to the Rockaway Theatre Company’s John Gilleece Theater at Fort Tilden on Friday,...
New Year Baby Becomes Murder Victim

New Year Baby Becomes Murder Victim

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital’s first baby of the year allegedly became victim of a horrific murder earlier this month. On March 7, EMTs responded to a 911 call at a home on Maple Road in Inwood after an infant was reported to be in cardiac arrest. Marlon...
Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus

Some local brokers imply that they have special access to a magic formula. A client was promised a quick sale at TOP DOLLAR, and a guaranteed FAST co-op approval of the buyer. I warned him/her about hocus pocus. Of course, the sale didn’t happen. The co-op was rented...