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Gun Joke Prompts Another Scandal For Famed Astoria Pizza Chef
Astoria's Bellucci's Pizza owner was criticized for a gun-related Instagram post.

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.
Astoria's Bellucci's Pizza owner was criticized for a gun-related Instagram post.

Here are the must-read Patch NYC stories for Wednesday, April 28.
One parent explains how her daughter struggled without the program amid the pandemic, and how she's doing now that it reopened this week.
Three Queens high schools made it to the top 100 nationally, and two ranked in the state's top 10, according to U.S. News and World Report.
In an incident captured on video earlier this month, two people shot at a man on Northern Boulevard in Long Island City.
Police are looking for three women who beat up a 16-year-old at her Queensbridge Houses apartment, before stealing her iPhone.
Shop Small Astoria is featuring 18 small businesses in this year's spring retail crawl, which is a week-long for the first time ever.
The Douglaston ZIP code of 11363 has a lower coronavirus positivity rate than any other ZIP code in Queens, Brooklyn, or the Bronx.
The bi-annual recycling event is coming back to Forest Park for the first time this year, and this time it'll be a drive-through drop-off.
The Regal UA Midway theater in Forest Hills is slated to reopen on May 14, as Regal Cinemas reopens hundreds of theaters across the country.
A suspect punched an elderly man on a Forest Hills sidewalk on Friday, causing him to fall to the ground, police said.
Two ramps will have alternate overnight closures from Grand Central Parkway to the northbound and southbound Francis Lewis Boulevard.
Drivers on the Kew Gardens Interchange will access Exit 13W from the left lane instead of the right lane as early as Thursday, said the DOT.
Drag racing complaints rose in Bayside in 2021. A bill to cut down on street racing just passed the State Senate’s Transportation Committee.
A 23-year-old mother was charged with murder on Friday after cops found her twin babies dead inside her apartment at the Woodside Houses.
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The 2021 study highlights disparities between northwestern Queens areas where rents dropped, and areas hard-hit by COVID where rents rose.
A young mother was taken into police custody on Thursday after cops found two twin babies dead inside her apartment at the Woodside Houses.