It’s wonderful to see that so many cultural venues have reopened to in-person events, and we hope this new Covid surge peters out soon enough and doesn’t thwart the city’s revival.There are countless shows, activities and exhibits worth going…

When former Mayor Ed Koch asked people, “How’m I doin’?” as he loved to do, the answer probably never came back “Perfect in every way, your honor!” In fact, Koch also famously said, “If you agree with me on nine out of 12 issues, vote for me.…

In the New York Press Association’s 2021 newspaper contest pitting weeklies from all across the state against one another, the Queens Chronicle racked up more points for its news content than any paper in the city.We won three first-place awa…

No chief executive wants to give up power over any part of government, but Mayor Adams could very well benefit from accepting federal leadership of Rikers Island. So too could the guards, inmates, visitors — and all New Yorkers.Conditions at …

The New York Times has dutifully reported on the worldwide environmental situation, changing its everyday terminology over time from global warming to climate change to climate crisis.It regularly attributes significant weather events to risi…

“Maspeth Minimum” has long been the term for Maspeth High School’s practice of providing students, through fraud, with whatever grades or classes they needed to graduate so the kids could be pushed into college or the real world whether prepa…

Combine the determination of Mayor Adams to turn the city around in both the long and short term, the innovation of the Success Academy charter school network and the largesse of fabulously wealthy former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and what do you…

Maybe former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is right, and Tuesday’s terror attack on a train in Brooklyn that injured 29 people, 10 of them with gunshot wounds, will be an inflection point. Speaking on WOR Radio Wednesday morning, Bratton s…

As the players step up to the plate for the first time this season across the country today, April 7, the Mets are looking mighty fine. For decades, and especially since the Bernie Madoff scandal, they’ve been the lesser franchise in New York…

Want to see kids get excited about the STEM fields that are vital to not only their future but that of our very nation? Get them building robots! Then let them pit their machines against those built by other kids. That’s what the FIRST Roboti…

Need a job? JetBlue has 5,000 of them available. Queens’ own airline — which not only flies out of both our airports but keeps its corporate headquarters in Long Island City — is expanding and needs a bigger workforce. That’s great news not o…

On any given night these days there are about 8,400 homeless families living in a shelter in the city, all of them dealing with the various stressors that comes with that, on top of what landed them there in the first place.Among the things t…

Thank goodness the governor didn’t keep her word.Just two months ago, Gov. Hochul said she would not “cave to pressure” and call for adjustments to the insane bail and other criminal justice “reform” laws Albany forced on the innocent people …

Ferries are how New Yorkers crossed the East River before we had bridges. Now they’re a novelty commuter option for a relatively small number of people who cost the rest of us a good amount of money on each ride.They’re also one of the 14 (ye…

As if we’re not already subjected enough to a bombardment of ads for mobile sports betting, state lawmakers are looking to let more companies into the game. The Assembly wants to increase the number of vendors taking bets from nine to 14, whi…

City Councilman Jim Gennaro is furious. Two weeks ago he stood among a proud crowd of Asian immigrants to honorarily rename a street corner in his east-central Queens district “Little Bangladesh Ave.” in recognition of their growing community…

If former Gov. Andrew Cuomo harbors any delusions about mounting a political comeback, he should forget them and get to finding a new line of work and returning his $16 million war chest. He could even be a political consultant — he’d be a gr…

It’s been two years and two days since the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in New York on March 1, 2020. Since then the people of this country, and most of the world, have faced a crisis not seen in a century; and this city has been on a…

Everyone’s furious at Con Ed for jacking up electric rates this year. And some of that anger is justified, but mostly the utility is just passing along increased costs and hedging against more in the future. The real culprits, aside from the …

After a man was hit by not one SUV but two Feb. 12 in a horrifying Glendale accident caught on video, officials promised safety improvements to the notorious intersection in question, where Cypress Street meets Cooper Avenue. No doubt better …

Here we go again, with the city putting in another bus lane that might help speed riders along but meanwhile is devastating businesses that saw parking spots in front of their shops get taken away.This time it’s in Downtown Jamaica, where abo…

Remember their names: Yao Pan Ma, 61. Michelle Alyssa Go, 40. Christina Yuna Lee, 35. They’re all people of Asian descent who recently were brutally killed in this city, the first by being kicked in the head repeatedly (he clung to life for e…

As state legislators scramble to get their preferred programs into this year’s budget, one of the best things they could do for the children of Queens and the rest of the city is to lift the arbitrary cap on charter schools.Right now there ar…

We need more affordable housing but must be careful that creating it does not harm existing neighborhoods.That’s why we agree with groups like the Queens Civic Congress and Community Board 11 that a set of bills in Albany designed to override…

We had thought the era of educational policies that would thwart the hopes and dreams of Asian-American students was over now that Bill de Blasio and his race-focused schools chancellors were out and a new team was in.But alas, even as new Sc…

Mayor Adams’ “Blueprint to End Gun Violence” is just what the city needs as it confronts the top three issues facing us today: crime, crime and crime.First, the mayor is creating new Neighborhood Safety Teams to replace the plainclothes Anti-…

We agree with Mayor Adams: It’s vital that schools remain open, even as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to infect more people in the city.For one thing, if you’re not yet aware, new cases are now falling as swiftly as they we…

It’s Restaurant Week in New York City, and we urge those who have the means to go out and support participating eateries by enjoying a quality meal with friends and loved ones — or to order takeout if you’re more comfortable with that. Much a…

“Every citizen shall be entitled to vote at every election for all officers elected by the people and upon all questions submitted to the vote of the people provided that such citizen is eighteen years of age or over and shall been a resident…

“Racial equity does not mean simply treating everyone equally, but rather, allocating resources and services in such a way that explicitly addresses barriers imposed by structural racism (i.e. policies and institutional practices that perpetu…

Upholding a campaign promise, Mayor Adams on Tuesday signed an order designed to get city agencies to finally stop fining small businesses unnecessarily.The “Small Business Forward” executive order requires key city agencies that issue summon…

Incoming Mayor Eric Adams has his hands full on every front by definition, but on two of the issues that matter most, crime and education, he’s making all the right moves and saying all the right things so far.When it comes to violent crime, …

Don’t panic.It won’t do you any good. It’ll add to your stress, possibly enough to affect your health, and it’ll leave you less able to think rationally.

Just as every car has a vehicle identification number, every gun has a serial number, which obviously is vital when police have to track down a weapon that’s been used in a crime.Except today, more and more guns do not have a serial number. T…

What is it with the City University of New York and anti-Semitism?Its Law Student Government Association on Dec. 2 demanded that CUNY sever all ties and end all exchange programs with Israel, slamming the country with anti-Semitic lies and gi…

Everything in moderation is not just sound advice in most circumstances that dates back to Ancient Greece at least; it could be interpreted as a guiding principal of this page when it comes to politics and policy.That’s a key reason why we ba…

They say that personnel is policy when it comes to a new chief executive assembling his team. Incoming Mayor Eric Adams has a chance to break with the policies of his predecessor across the board, and we hope he will do so in a major way in k…

There will be no new lockdown in New York City when the Omicron variant of the coronavirus gets here, as it inevitably will. The people would not allow it.Acting ahead of time, Gov. Hochul declared a state of emergency, accruing to herself va…

As we gather in deep celebration this Thanksgiving, most of us find so much to be thankful for and send our best thoughts and, when we can, assistance to those who are sick or suffering, lonely or impoverished this holiday season. We also rec…

Mayor-elect Eric Adams knows the deal: that there’s no recovery for the city from the rapid damage of the Covid era and the slow decline of the de Blasio era without a reversal of violent crime.Out-of-touch Pollyannas like Mayor de Blasio and…

We know you love your community just as much as we do at the Queens Chronicle, your community newspaper. So this week you’re in for a treat!In our 43rd annual Anniversary edition, entitled “Welcome to the neighborhood!”, you’ll find profiles …

Before he was elected mayor, Bill de Blasio won plaudits as public advocate for having studies done on the negative impact fines for petty infractions have on small businesses and for advocating on merchants’ behalf. It was a big issue then, …

Last year the restaurant industry survived in large part thanks to outdoor dining. Indoors, eateries were subject to the vagaries of Cuomo math, as the then-governor used his expertise in air currents and geometry to determine just how many p…

Now that the final debate between mayoral candidates Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa is over, you’ve seen all you need to see. It’s time to go vote. This page has endorsed Democrat Adams over Republican Sliwa for reasons of experience, policy and…

There is little our two most recent mayors agree on — certainly not when it comes to major issues such as crime, education or their attitude toward the business community. But somehow they both believe Democrat Eric Adams is the right person …

Stepping up to the plate one last time for educational mediocrity and against excellence, lamest-duck Mayor de Blasio last week announced the end of Gifted and Talented programs for students citywide.The move came as a surprise in the sense t…

Congratulations, civic and environmental activists of East Elmhurst and Flushing Bay! We did it! You did it. You defeated the folly of the LaGuardia Airport AirTrain planned by former Gov. Cuomo. No longer is the idea that people will ride th…

It’s one of our favorite institutions, with such a noble mission, generally solid history and world-renowned reach and quality, but this week the Queens Library let us down. It did so by jumping aboard the equity express with the city’s other…

It might be nice to think that knowledge and a sense of responsibility were all that are responsible for 96 percent of city schoolteachers and 99 percent of principals getting at least one shot of the Covid vaccine by Monday, but the fact is …