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Not All Of Bayside's Open Streets Are Operational, Study Finds
While many Open Street closures point to inequities, the study found, the program's absence in Bayside might be about community buy-in.

Kayla Levy covers all things Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills and Bayside for Patch. She has written for New York Magazine's Curbed and the Strategist, and Time Out. Follow her on Twitter @kaylev and send story tips to kayla.levy@patch.com.
While many Open Street closures point to inequities, the study found, the program's absence in Bayside might be about community buy-in.

While many Open Street closures point to inequities, the study found, the program's absence in Forest Hills might be about community buy-in.
The last time that Amy drove her mom to the hospital her GPS routed them through Astoria, where her parents first lived together.
The lane reductions, which make the exits 11-feet wide, come a couple of days before a stretch of the Cross Island Parkway totally closes.
The mother was in the backseat of a car with her 3-year-old son when the child's father, who was behind the wheel, crashed into another car.
The Forest Hills homeowner found the first memento, a letter from 1929, when workers were renovating her upstairs bathroom, Fox reported.
The New York Post included six homes in its roundup of the city's "spooktacular" Halloween displays, two of which are in Astoria.
The elderly woman disappeared from her Ravenswood Houses apartment on Oct. 13. As of Monday she had been found, police said.
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Popular pumpkin patches and farms in New York offer a ton of autumn fun for the family.
Halloween and fun are right around the corner, and you don’t have to travel too far to find the best fall pumpkins near northwest Queens.
Halloween and fun are right around the corner, and you don’t have to travel far to find the best fall pumpkins near Bayside.
Police allowed the spa to reopen when the tenant blamed a prostitution claim on an old renter. Reports of sex work, however, go back months.
Tikkun BBQ, a mission-driven pop-up, is bringing a day of free food and events to Astoria's 31st Avenue Open Street with other local groups.
Baysiders are aiming to raise $100K on Sunday for the hospital's special needs programming. Participants get zoo day-passes, too.
Of the 13 active Open Streets in Queens more than half are in Astoria and LIC and none are south of Forest Park, a new study found.
The deep hole in Cunningham Park caused Jeremy Rosario to trip and fracture his collarbone, leaving him incapacitated, the suit says.
Derrick Gibson, of Forest Hills, was a local business owner before he launched a far-right podcast and gubernatorial campaign.