🌱 Sunnyside Center Cinemas + Elderly Woman Fatally Struck

Good morning, people of Queens! It's me again, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Queens Daily.

First, today's weather:

Cooler with rain and drizzle. High: 50 Low: 48.

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Here are the top three stories in Queens today:

1. A popular Sunnyside cinema that closed in 2015 will finally be torn down. According to owner John Ciafone, the old Sunnyside Center Cinemas building at 42-17 Queens Blvd. may soon be demolished to make way for an apartment complex. Ciafone, who has owned the property since 2012, filed plans on Tuesday with the city to demolish the cinema building, at last paving the way for construction to begin. (Patch)
2. Surveillance footage released by police shows the suspects they believe stabbed two students during a brawl outside John Adams High School on Tuesday — seriously injuring one. The footage shows the attacker running off, and photos show the male and female walking together on the sidewalk. The male suspect was pictured wearing dark sweats and a pair of light-colored slippers, and a female was seen in light-colored sweats and a red hat. (New York Post)
3. An elderly woman was fatally struck by an elderly driver in Queens on Tuesday. According to police, an elderly driver was backing out of a garage behind 73-55 217 Street, a duplex in Oakland Gardens, at around 3:35 p.m. when he hit Georgiana Belfiore who was standing behind the car. Belfiore, who died at the scene, had lived nearby on the opposite side of the residential complex located on 220th Street. (Queens Post)

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Today in Queens:

• Meditation Is An Antidote To Stress, At South Jamaica Branch Library (10:30 AM)

From my notebook:

• Queens congresswomen helped secure a visa for the son of the Asian woman who died after being attacked with a rock in Corona. (QNS.com)
• The office of the Queens Borough President Richards hosted a Women's Herstory Month Celebration on Wednesday. (Press Release Desk)
• A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on Tuesday in Broad Channel to celebrate a new, state-of-the-art replacement building for PS 47, which was demolished last year. (Twitter)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander, now living in New York. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, drinking tea, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.