Bayside (Queens, New York)

Cheyenne Hua, 14, of Bayside, Queens is the runner-up in the 14th Annual Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Cheyenne entered the competition with the speed bump project (essentially she designed a speed bump that, just using a lever and...

A new bill submitted by State Assemblyman Michael DenDekker would allow drivers to collect $100 for each ticket written in error. And as drivers rejoice at news of the bill, they should remember to thank DenDekker's mother, who may have been the...

If NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his way, the City will close twenty fire companies in July, and PIX11 News obtained the preliminary list from city officials Wednesday. The closures are not yet final as the city council and the mayor are still...

Residents of Bayside Queens are fed up with getting parking tickets for blocking street cleaners on Bell Blvd. -- especially since the streets haven't been cleaned for years. "In 2008 my wife and I paid $2300 in violations," said Gus Floropoulos, "We'...

In fifty years of living in Manhattan, 80-year-old Delia Gluckin has never been fined for throwing anything into a city trash can -- until last Sunday. Gluckin, of Inwood, left her house in a hurry to meet a friend downtown and took her morning paper...

Some time after checking into the Sheraton hotel in Towson last week, William M. Parente went across the street to the Towson Town Center and bought the knife he used to kill himself. Baltimore County detectives found a receipt from a mall store for...

Even as the early morning chill lingered in this spot of desolate desert most frequented by dune buggies and dirt bikes, the sunlight was fierce, highlighting every shadow and making even the faintest color bright. A string of worn flags around an...

Hello everyone! We are flying high at an altitude of 37,000 ft headed to Kuwait! Two hours ago we stopped in London to refuel and it's been a great flight so far! As you know, last evening Marvin, Dave, and I met at JFK airport to begin our journey...

Friday April 28, 2000      "The past is a funny thing," John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel) says in "Frequency," an effective but finally overreaching science-fiction thriller, but even he doesn't yet appreciate just how out of the ordinary it can be.      ...

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Two public schools and one Catholic school will shut down for up to a week beginning Monday. They are Middle School 158 in Bayside; Intermediate School 25 in Flushing; and Our Lady of Lourdes in Queens Village. That's on top of the six schools closed last...

Jail officers say New York City has agreed to scrub down a part of the Rikers Island jail complex. Ten inmates in the complex have confirmed cases of swine flu. The city Correction Officers' Benevolent Association says officials laid out the plan for the...