On Saturday, April 9th the Bayview Houses Community Association held their annual children’s spring event. The children and their parents were treated to an afternoon consisting of crafts, bunny bean bag toss, coloring eggs, delicious cupcakes and making their own spring baskets filled with trinkets

Elizabeth Figueroa is at it again – beautifying the seventh floor of her Penn-Wortman home, at 875 Pennsylvania Avenue!  Easter is just around the corner – Sunday, April 17th to be exact – and Elizabeth has been a busy bunny decorating her hallway, a tradition

PaleFO Cinema Presents:  Youth Town Hall at Bayview Community Center Eileen Level’s dream is to start an Outdoor Cinema Series that will launch at the Bayview Houses Community Center.  As founder of PaleFO Cinema, her goal is “leveraging the potential of the cinematic experience to

The songs and skills of the H.E.S. Music School students have returned to the stage! On Sunday, March 6th, the H.E.S. Music School held its first in-person recital since the pandemic began two years ago.   Performers and audience members alike shared in their excitement at

Legendary singer and actor, Bobby Rydell, passed away on April 5, 2022 at the age of 79. One of the Golden Boys out of Philadelphia, along with Frankie Avalon and Fabian, Bobby Rydell became a teen idol in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with

  Kids and adults enjoyed an Easter Family Arts & Crafts Day at the Carmine Carro Community Center, 3000 Fillmore Avenue, in Marine Park on Saturday.  Instead of the traditional Easter Egg Hunt festivities, the hosts of this event – Millennium Development, Marine Park Alliance

The Canarsie Safety Alliance held a four-day event, where many organizations reached out to the community, with the goal of “We are One, Making the Community Whole Again!”  Booths lined Flatlands Avenue from East 80th Street to East 82nd Street on Wednesday, March 23rd through

It takes various members of the NYPD, all with very different – but equally important – roles, to fight crime across the city.  Captain Khandakar Abdullah, commanding officer of the 69th Precinct, recognized these dedicated officers and awarded four of them with Cop of the

The 69th Precinct Clergy Council held a Prayer Vigil on Monday night at the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Seaview Avenue.  The vigils are held on a monthly basis, at busy areas where crime is high.  Due to the cold winter months, this is the

According to GasBuddy, the average price of gasoline in NYC was $4.36 per gallon as of Monday.  That’s slightly above the national average of $4.24 per gallon.  No matter where you live, everyone’s feeling the pain at the pumps – and in their wallets. Remember