Albert Einstein once said, “The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before,” and at the Queens District Attorney Far Rockaway Debate hosted by Senator James Sanders Jr. at Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Arverne this past Monday, June 9, some may argue that it was difficult to cipher the stand out candidate who will assume the seat hungrily sought after by a crowded camp of

How did a Queens kid, who never played a day of high school basketball, make it as a walk-on for St. John’s University, one of the highest-regarded college basketball teams? A dream, a bit of perseverance, and most importantly, some encouragement from dad.

One day in the late 1980s, Billy Mitaritonna returned from school to his home in Rosedale, Queens, and went upstairs to cry in bed. He had just been cut from the Archbishop Molloy basketball team—again. It was his sophomore year. Another

The Ocean Bay Apartments are good as new. On Monday, June 10, local elected officials and representatives from several state, city and federal agencies gathered in front of the newly-rehabilitated NYCHA Ocean Bay Apartments for a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion of the work.

Ocean Bay Apartments, a 24-building, 1,395-unit public housing complex, located between Beach 54th and Beach 58th Streets, recently underwent a $560 million redevelopment that was NYCHA’s first and the country’s