Queens Policy Watch: CB1 Backs Full-Length 31st Street Redesign in Astoria, 35–4
Queens Community Board 1 voted overwhelmingly in favor of NYC DOT’s plan to redesign the entire length of 31st Street in Astoria with protected bike lanes and traffic calming. Here’s what the plan includes and what happens next.
Queens Openings This Week: Gyro City Soft-Opens in Astoria, Wonder Lands in Forest Hills
Astoria gets a Greek soft opening with a grand opening this Saturday, Forest Hills welcomes a Wonder food hall on Austin Street, and the Queens Night Market is back at Flushing Meadows.
Queens This Week: QPL Central Library Turns 60, Middle Village Reopens, and Earth Week Events
Queens Public Library celebrates 60 years of Central Library on April 20, Middle Village Library reopens, and Earth Week programming rolls out across the borough. Here is what to do this week.
Queens CB1 Meets Tuesday: What’s on the Astoria-LIC-Woodside Agenda This Week
If you live anywhere between the Triboro Bridge and the Kosciuszko Bridge — Astoria, Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside — your community board meets tomorrow night, and spring is when the calendar gets interesting. Queens Community Board 1 — Tuesday, April 21 Queens CB1 holds its full board meeting the third Tuesday of each month […]
Astoria Spotlight: 100+ New Homes, a Pizza Revival, and the Market Is Back
Astoria in 2026 is filling in fast — five new residential projects bringing 100+ units, a genuine dining renaissance with Gyro City, Freddy’s Pizza, and L’oro Espresso Bar, and the farmers market returning May 11.
Jackson Heights Faces a Crossroads: Chains vs. Culture
Walk down Roosevelt Avenue between 74th and 82nd Streets in Jackson Heights and you’ll pass through a stretch of sidewalk that might be the most diverse eating corridor in the United States. Nepali momos, Colombian empanadas, Indian chaat, Ecuadorian ceviche, Tibetan dumplings — all within a few blocks, all made by immigrants who brought their […]
Astoria & Sunnyside Boom with New Spots This April
Gyro City soft-opens in Astoria ahead of its April 25 grand opening, Freddy’s Pizza brings its 1961 Whitestone legacy to Broadway, and Sunnyside welcomes The Screen Door ice cream shop. Western Queens is having a strong spring.
Queens’ Jewel Streets Plan: Rezoning, New Homes, and Fixing The Hole
There’s a stretch of Queens — and Brooklyn — that locals call “The Hole.” The name says it all: a low-lying, perpetually flooded neighborhood along the border of the two boroughs, near the Jewel Streets area of South Ozone Park and East New York. For generations, residents here have lived without city sewer connections, watching […]
Queens New Openings: Gyro City, Ice Cream Pizza, and More
Queens continues to prove that it’s the most delicious borough in New York City. This April, a fresh batch of restaurants, cafés, and food halls are opening across the borough — and two major restaurant weeks are giving you even more reasons to eat your way through the neighborhoods. Gyro City Grand Opening in Astoria […]
Queens Community Board Meetings This Week: Transportation, Safety, and Land Use
Queens has more community board meetings this week than any other borough, and the topics on the table read like a checklist of things residents actually care about: transportation, public safety, housing, and park access. Community Board 2, which covers Sunnyside, Woodside, Long Island City, and Astoria, is leading the charge with a meeting nearly […]