Stephen Stirling
The Archive
VIRUS' REâ'EMERGENCE TAXES BORO HOSPITALS
May 20, 2009 | 10:13pmThe swine flu outbreak is intensifying pressure on Queens' beleaguered health care system, and while the borough's emergency rooms have been coping with huge patient increases following the closure of...
FALL FROM GRACE: DEMOCRATS CRITICIZE PADAVAN'S SUPPORT OF MCLAUGHLIN
May 13, 2009 | 11:24pmA letter written by state Sen. Frank Padavan (R−Bellerose) on behalf of disgraced former colleague Brian McLaughlin set off a firestorm of political rhetoric last week. State Democrats blasted Padavan...
FALL FROM GRACE: MCLAUGHLIN FACES SENTENCE
May 13, 2009 | 11:24pmThe more than three−year−long saga that has obliterated the reputation of one of Queens' most influential political and labor leaders may finally come to a close next week. The U.S....
MCLAUGHLIN, A HUMBLED RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC, AWAITS SENTENCING
May 7, 2009 | 4:29pmJust over a year after pleading guilty to bilking millions of dollars from labor groups, his own re-election committee and the Electchester Little League, court papers paint former Flushing assemblyman...
PETROCELLI ELECTRIC INDICTED ON LABOR VIOLATION CHARGE
April 3, 2009 | 10:01pmThe head of Long Island City-based Petrocelli Electric Company was indicted on corruption charges in Manhattan federal court last Thursday for allegedly giving payouts to a "representative" of a union...
TRUCK HITS ROAD SIGN, SNARLING WHITESTONE BRIDGE TRAFFIC
March 27, 2009 | 10:20pmA road sign collapsed onto the Queens side of the Whitestone Bridge after a truck crashed into it, injuring two people and snarling traffic for miles along the Whitestone Expressway...
REPUTED MS-13 GANG MEMBER CHARGED IN FLUSHING DRIVE-BY SHOOTING
March 19, 2009 | 9:43pmTwo men, including the reputed New York leader of the ferocious MS-13 gang, were arraigned in Brooklyn federal court Thursday in the murder of Flushing-native Maurice Parker, who was gunned...
MALFUNCTIONING PLANE DUMPS SHRAPNEL ON COLLEGE POINT CORPORATE PARK
March 11, 2009 | 8:37pmHundreds of pieces of shrapnel rained down on a Flushing business Wednesday morning when a plane departing from LaGuardia Airport experienced engine failure, forcing it to make an emergency landing...
FLUSHING GAL'S GIFT A HIT WITH ROURKE
March 4, 2009 | 10:27pmWhen Betina Wassermann sent an eâ'mail to Mickey Rourke's agent Paula Woods a few days before the Academy Awards, she said she did not think for a second that she...
SCHLEICHER'S COURT TENANTS GET OK TO MOVE BACK HOME
February 19, 2009 | 11:10pmAfter more than eight months, Edna Rodriguez will finally get to sleep in her own bed. “I can’t wait,” she said. Rodriguez and the tenants of six other apartments at...
WILLETS POINT REPAVE SHOCKS BIZ OWNERS
February 18, 2009 | 8:38pmIn the warped reality of Willets Point — where the sight of roosters prancing through mangled auto parts is not out of the ordinary — little shocks the business owners...
CITY PLANS WILLETS POINT BUSINESS MOVE TO COLLEGE POINT
February 18, 2009 | 8:05pmIn a meeting with Community Board 7 members Tuesday night, the city Economic Development Corp. announced that it plans to move five Willets Point businesses to the College Point Corporate...
ISLANDERS' MOVE TO QUEENS FLOATED
February 11, 2009 | 8:59pmCould the New York Islanders be Queens-bound? Stranger things have happened, says Jack Friedman. It started as an off-the-cuff response that Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce,...
FIVE WILLETS POINT BUSINESSES TO MOVE TO COLLEGE POINT CORPORATE PARK
February 11, 2009 | 8:59pmIn a meeting with Community Board 7 members Tuesday night, the city Economic Development Corp. announced that it plans to move five Willets Point businesses to the College Point Corporate...
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK GRIM FOR QUEENS IN '09
January 28, 2009 | 8:31pmQueens is reeling. Rising unemployment rates, falling home sales, a skyrocketing number of foreclosures and sagging retail sales paint a grim picture of how the borough is being affected by...
GILLIBRAND DROPS IN ON QUEENS
January 28, 2009 | 8:31pmShe may not have been a household name just days ago, but newly minted U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) wasted no time in making sure southeast Queens’ political leadership knew...
UNPAID LOAN COULD HALT SKY VIEW PARC: SOURCE
January 28, 2009 | 8:31pmComplications with a primary lender could threaten the construction of Muss Development’s Sky View Parc on College Point Boulevard, according to sources familiar with the planned Flushing megacomplex. Arbor Realty...
MONSERRATE HAS PRICKLY HISTORY IN BORO POLITICS
December 26, 2008 | 10:44pmThe counts against City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D−East Elmhurst) sent a shock wave through Queens this week, but the fiery domestic violence advocate has been a polarizing figure for the...
POLS WEIGH IN ON MONSERRATE
December 26, 2008 | 10:44pmFollowing the arrest of state Sen.−elect Hiram Monserrate Friday, Democratic players in the borough said the East Elmhurst politician is an essential piece to delivering the Senate majority post to...
MONSERRATE ASSAULT ON CAMERA: SOURCES
December 26, 2008 | 10:44pmAuthorities have obtained video surveillance that allegedly shows embattled City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D−East Elmhurst) pulling his girlfriend's hair outside his apartment early Friday morning just hours before he was...