With all the talk of Swine Flu/MexiFlu/H1N1, I find it amusing that the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 actually started in Kansas - I do recall seeing something a couple of years ago in one of the local papers about the time when the 1918 flu passed [...] 
With all the talk of Swine Flu/MexiFlu/H1N1, I find it amusing that the "Spanish Flu" of 1918 actually started in Kansas - I do recall seeing something a couple of years ago in one of the local papers about the time when the 1918 flu passed [...] The WNYC "Radio Rookies" recently went on a search for the "Flushing Pimp," whom many have consistently seen on the streets in Queens throughout the years (he's even got a Facebook page dedicated to him). Their search took some dark turns, however, when they ultimately found out through [...]
The Health Department is holding weekend clinics for people in the priority groups—more details here—to get H1N1 vaccines. Here's a PDF of the locations and hours in each borough and there are two more weekends of clinics scheduled after the Thanksgiving Day weekend. Last weekend, 15,000 people [...]
If it's almost Thanksgiving, it means the city is gearing up the influx of visitors to the city for the holidays. The Department of Transportation released its calendar of "Gridlock Alert Days" (PDF) and its "Holiday Traffic Mitigation Plan" (PDF)—above all, the [...]
Last Friday around 7 p.m. a young woman entered a building on 31st Road near 23rd Street in Flushing,and was accosted in the elevator by a young man, pictured in this police sketch, who forced her...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Flushing Sexual Assailant" > [...]
The New York University web-rendition of contemporary metropolitan reality shows like Gossip Girl and The City is looking to expand its cast for the spring season. Executive Producer Michael Flutie's webisode venture titled Under The Arch follows select NYU students and alums as they go [...]
A little over a month ago, as the second wave of the great H1N1 hysteria of 2009 began to swell, it seemed like vaccines would be made available to any New Yorker who’d decided he would rather not gamble on contracting the feverish, vomit-inducing, kinda-maybe-sorta-lethal porcine plague.
Things didn’t [...]
The Assembly is scheduled to go into session at 1 p.m., but the Senate’s schedule is a bit more, um, fluid.
The members are “on call” as negotiations continue. Senate sources speaking on background say that while budget talks are moving forward at a good pace, it’s unlikely that anything definitive [...]
Thirty-eight of the 51 City Council members have signed on to a bill, Intro 1059, that would require private employers in the city to give their worker paid sick days. But the most influential member — Council Speaker Christine Quinn — said she still has not decided whether to [...]
Thirty-eight of the 51 City Council members have signed on to a bill, Intro 1059, that would require private employers in the city to give their worker paid sick days. But the most influential member — Council Speaker Christine Quinn — said she still has not decided whether to [...]
Yesterday afternoon it was reported that Ken Ober, best known as the host of MTV's Remote Control, died on Sunday at the age of 52. The cause of death hasn't been announced, but his agent has come out with some details, saying: "His body'" [...]
Yesterday, the United States Preventive Services Task Force ("an influential group that provides guidance to doctors, insurance companies and policy makers") recommended that women get mammograms starting at age 50, reversing its previous position that mammograms should start at age 40. According to the [...]
Photo taken inside P.S. 290 by Peter Sang After opening up its weekend H1N1 vaccination clinics to priority groups beyond public school students, the Health Department gave out 15,606 free vaccines this past Saturday and Sunday (the previous weekend's clinics saw less [...]
Since 2008, the city has received 23 complaints about illegal apartments and an unsanctioned daycare center in a Flushing, Queens building, but inspectors haven't been able to bring the building up to code, the Daily News reports.
Continuing its investigation of illegal apartments following' [...]
Still from The Kite Runner One 12-year-old was recently the victim of some kite fighting leftovers. The "sport," made famous in The Kite Runner, is popular in Flushing Meadows Corona Park — and now the city is on the receiving end of [...]
Saturday's free flu clinics were much more popular than the kids-only version last week, with city officials reporting that more people had been vaccinated by 1 pm than the total number vaccinated...
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Photograph by Jake Dobkin/Gothamist
Since turnout for last weekend's swine flu vaccine clinics for public school students was low, the Health Department decided to open up this weekend's clinics to other priority groups—pregnant women; anyone 4 years through 24 years of age; [...]
Earlier this week Google Maps launched a flu shot finder at [www.google.com]. Google said it has "been working with HHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health agencies to gather information on flu vaccine locations across the" [...]
Earlier this week DOT and the MTA showed plans for Bus Rapid Transit on the east side of Manhattan to the Seaport/Civic Center committee of Community Board 1. With implementation scheduled for next September, the question of how to allot space on First and Second Avenues is increasingly urgent. [...]
