Articles about “Woodside”
Midweek Special: NYC Restaurant Review Roundup
Saul (Tyson Reist) We recently interviewed chef Saul Bolton, whose eponymous restaurant in Boerum Hill just celebrated ten years in business. Today Pete Wells at the Times bestows two stars on the place, where the elegantly...
Queens Blvd Ghost Bike A Sobering Reminder Of Cycling Dangers
Photo of James Langergaard courtesy Streetsblog; Langergaard's ghost bike via Ghost Bikes. On Friday night some two dozen cyclists gathered in Queens for what has become a sadly familiar ritual in NYC: The installation of an...
Queens Dad Allowed To Kick Son Out Of Co-Op
A Queens judge ruled that a 45-year-old man can be evicted from the Woodside, Queens co-op his dad has let him live in for 18 years. According to the Daily News, even though Richard Carnivale was...
Jollibee Adds Breakfast, Brings World Peace
When fast food chain Jollibee opened its first East Coast location earlier this year in Queens, lines quickly formed out the door and essentially wrapped around Woodside. Filipino ex-pats and food explorers have been keeping the...
Cabbie Says Alleged Sexual Assault Victim Attacked Him
The "not my baby back" cabbie who made headlines last year for his questionable Good Samartian act has now officially been charged with first-degree attempted rape. Klever Saliema is accused of forcing himself on a female passenger...
Jollibee, Filipino Fast Food, Comes to Queens
The Jollibee line on Sunday at 3 p.m. New York City has a strange relationship with fast food restaurants—our first McDonald’s, for example, opened in 1973, ten full years after the franchise had sold its one-billionth...
Smoking, Punching, Cursing Queens Woman Forces Jet Blue Flight Detour
Get this woman a reality TV show! Christina Szele of Woodside, Queens created such a disturbance during a Jet Blue flight from JFK airport to San Francisco that pilots diverted the plane and landed in Denver, where...
Queens Man Kills Wife, Stabs 7-Year-Old Daughter
Queens DA Richard Brown announced that a 34-year-old Woodside resident will be charged with second-degree murder, second-degree assault, and child endangerment after killing his wife and stabbing his young daughter on Sunday night. Balbar Singh and Kulvinder...
Feast on Filipino Fare Outside Little Manila at Tito Rad's
The blue awning above Tito Rad’s Grill and Restaurant, a homey spot situated next to a strip joint at the juncture of Queens Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue declares “Finest Filipino Cuisine.” Culinary boasts aside Tito Rad’s might...
Elderly Neighbor Rescued by Alert Woman
An 80-year-old woman was rescued Thursday by a former neighbor whose concerns were aroused when she spotted newspapers piling up outside the Woodside, Queens woman's front door. Kim Russo used to live next door to Rose Schwing...
Ethnic Pizza Patrol: La Chonta
It could be argued that all pizza is by definition "ethnic," but some pizzeria fare is especially deserving of this designation. Ethnic Pizza Patrol strives to find unique cultural interpretations of this classic New York City...