Queens Tribune

The future is now.

It was a sad start to the New Year for Community Board 11, as they remembered member Andy Rothman, who recently passed away. The board also put forward a resolution on a term limits bill and heard from the 111th precinct on the latest crime stats. 

In this week's Queens Tribune cover story, we look back at the life and career of Gov. Mario Cuomo. 

The former governor died of natural causes due to heart failure on Jan. 1 in his Manhattan home at the age of 82, hours after his son Andrew Cuomo was inaugurated for his second term as governor. 

Assemblyman David Weprin delivered more than 350 pounds of food to the River Fund food pantry in Richmond Hill on Monday.

A curving, glassy annex to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona is expected to break ground this spring or summer.

As part of a “day of service” organized by the mentoring organization Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, artist Don Rimx visited PS 151 to collaborate with its students on a hallway mural. 

Queens enters the New Year pockmarked from multiple tragic fires, which altogether left at least four dead.

Charles Williams is the star center of the LaGuardia Community College Red Hawks basketball team, which first hit the courts in the fall of 2013. As LaGuardia announced last week, Williams is the first Red Hawk to sign a basketball scholarship to a four-year school.

The Bacon and Beer Classic is coming back to Citi Field next year and this time, you will be able to see both of New York’s baseball teams play as you enjoy delicious bacon while throwing back a cold one.

Last Wednesday, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced the creation of a Cultural Immigrant Initiative, aimed at bolstering cultural funding that targets the City’s immigrant communities.

Further details have been released about Telebeam Telecommunications Corporation’s lawsuit against the City over PlanNYC.

Elected officials and residents are working to fix traffic problems created by the Flushing Commons project, which began construction earlier this year.

Seven months after an F train derailed at 65th Street in Woodside, injuring more than 30 people, the MTA has released its report on what caused the accident.