We’re a good couple of weeks into a heat wave so it seems like a good time to think about a swim. Help us out by letting us know about your favorite public pool in Queens.
Photo of Astoria Pool from Mackenzieland
We’re a good couple of weeks into a heat wave so it seems like a good time to think about a swim. Help us out by letting us know about your favorite public pool in Queens.
Photo of Astoria Pool from Mackenzieland
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New Schools
Bloomberg administration touts new Queens schools to open in September [Queens Chronicle]
City to put new schools in several struggling Queens high school buildings [Daily News]
Overcrowded Schools
Hunters Point Kindergarten Wait List Jumps 50 Percent in Growing Nabe [DNAinfo]
New Hunters Point School to Focus on Ecology and the Waterfront [DNAinfo]
Queens ‘Epicenter for Schools Overcrowding’ Works Within Limitations [DNAinfo]
Closing Schools
Panel votes to phase out two Queens schools, may still truncate third [Queens Courier]
DOE: Students can transfer out of failing schools [Queens Courier]
Two Queens Schools Set To Shutter [Queens Tribune]
Queens schools set for shuttering get squeezed instead [The New York World]
With Anthony Weiner contemplating a bid for mayor, the answer to our question of the day may not be 9.5 miles.
Source: GMAP
This is where Weiner lived in Forest Hills.
This is where he lives now on Park Avenue South.
Let us know how far you think it is in the comments or on Twitter @QueensNYCity.
Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin’s Post-Scandal Playbook [NY Times]
Anthony Weiner And Huma Abedin Yank Listing For $449,000 Forest Hills Condo [Huffington Post]
Weiner Rises To Fancy $3.3 Million, 12th-Floor Manhattan Apartment [Gothamist]
Where can you get a towel shave in Queens? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter @QueensNYCity.
We all know that it is not legal to make a right hand turn at a red light in New York City. But it’s legal in the rest of the free world. Tell us the best places in Queens to make a right on red….. legally of course? Let us know in the comments or on Twitter @QueensNYCity.
Gorge – Verb – Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food
Photo Courtesy of Joe DiStefano
If yes, our post at 11am is for you!
Let us know – leave us a comment here or via twitter at @queensnycity!
Image Courtesy of James Gulliver Hancock
Source: NYC DOT
Phased rollout back on the calendar.. Manhattan and some Brooklyn first.. LIC and Sunnyside to follow..
How you feeling about CitiBike?Let us know – leave us a comment here or via twitter at @queensnycity!
Complete Coverage [QNYC]