Dr. Stradford began his dental career in 1988, according to Advance records, and has had practices in St. George, Sunnyside and Newark. Prosecutors said he most recently practiced in Berlin Township.

Published by SI Live on July 23, 2008.

I'd passed the Pharoh (sic) Café in Ridgewood several times before finally deciding to stop. Ridgewood is right across the Queens border from Bushwick, and it must be one of the cheapest places in town to find an apartment.

Published by Village Voice on July 23, 2008.

The shooting happened inside a barber shop on Wilson Avenue in the Bushwick section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 19, 2008.

Frank Cilento, president of Innovative Planning Services, a financial planning company in Sunnyside, is advising his clients to take a breather. Cilento said the most important thing investors can do is make sure their portfolios are diversified.

Published by SI Live on July 19, 2008.

The e-mail reminders alert the principals to who's coming up for consideration, to remind them that this is their chance to try to block tenure if they wish. Anthony Lombardi, principal of PS 49 in Middle Village, Queens, said the administration has reformed tenure largely through its emphasis on improving the quality of teachers and principal accountability.

Published by New York Post on July 19, 2008.

Michael Russell, 27, of Glendale, Cynthia Walters, 64, of Manhattan, and Karen Kenny-Jones, 48, of Manhattan, are also charged.

Published by SI Live on July 18, 2008.

This figure ranks the "44" behind only the 75th Precinct, covering East New York, Brooklyn (349 complaints), and the 73rd Precinct, covering Ocean Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn (280 complaints), according to recently-departed CCRB spokesman Andrew Case.

Published by West Bronx Blog on July 14, 2008.

Newtown Creek, the polluted estuary that separates Queens and Brooklyn, should be named a federal Superfund site, a move that could hasten long-stuttering cleanup efforts, a pair of New York lawmakers say.

Published by New York Times on July 13, 2008.

Since the late 1800s, Greenpoint and its Newtown Creek have been a hub of industrialization, and its side effect – pollution, mostly air pollution.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on July 13, 2008.

Two boys have been shot in East Williamsburg early Friday morning.

Published by WNBC on July 11, 2008.

At 8 am on July 13, a truck will show up with several tons of sand, donated by the Quadrozzi Concrete Corporation. A team will go to work smoothing out the sand into courts for as early a start as possible. Eighty teams of three will then compete in a good-natured, community-building round-robin tournament for bragging rights.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on July 10, 2008.

Martinez's wild tale began on June 29, 2007, when he bought a handful of tickets at a minimart in Sunnyside.

Published by New York Post on July 10, 2008.

The Fire Department of New York says the blaze at the three-story building on Knickerbocker Avenue in the Bushwick section broke out about 3 p.m. Monday.

Published by WNBC on July 8, 2008.

The preschooler, Jay Morales, was angry about being punished, and told a neighborhood child, "I'm going to burn down the house and kill my grandmother today," the sources said. The boy went to the Bushwick home of his grandmother, Nancy Herrera on Sunday morning.

Published by New York Post on July 8, 2008.

A 5-year-old was critically injured in a Brooklyn fire he set Monday as revenge for being punished by his grandmother, police and fire sources said. Jay (Tito) Morales suffered third-degree burns to 70% of his body after he used a lighter to ignite the curtains in Nancy Herrera's Bushwick home, fire sources said. Herrera, 63, suffered minor injuries.

Published by New York Daily News on July 8, 2008.

Three people, including a 5-year-old boy, were hurt in an apartment fire in Brooklyn Monday. The flames broke out just after 3 p.m. in a multi-unit building on Knickerbocker Avenue in the Bushwick section.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 8, 2008.

George, stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey, served seven years in the Army but on weekends would go home to Cypress Hills to see his son, 7, and daughter, 5.

Published by New York Post on July 6, 2008.

Family members were too distraught to speak at the boy's Ridgewood home and a man who answered the phone at the 136th Street house declined to comment.

Published by New York Post on July 6, 2008.

"I been harassed so much, I'm selling my business," said Espinoza, owner of Delicias de Mi Tierra on 91st Place in Elmhurst.

Published by New York Daily News on July 2, 2008.

“The strike was a surprise because it seemed that the negotiations were going well until the 11th hour and then it fell apart,” said John Quadrozzi, president of the Quadrozzi Concrete Corporation, which has 50 trucks and calls itself the city’s largest concrete company.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

Neighborhoods with the greatest number of cases included Borough Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint and East New York.

Published by New York Times on July 2, 2008.

The 52-year-old victim claims Dennis Gallagher raped and assaulted her in a local bar last year. Gallagher pleaded guilty to a lesser sex-abuse charge and resigned in return for no jail time. But the victim said last night, "It's not enough. He got away with a ticket." Gallagher, a Republican from Middle Village, said he'd be vindicated.

Published by New York Post on July 1, 2008.

The three undercover cops - Henry Tavarez, Steven Anderson and Alan Figueroa - could be hit with perjury, official misconduct and filing false documents charges stemming from the Jan. 4 incident inside Club Delicioso, sources said. Video footage from the Elmhurst club exonerated the four men arrested and contradicted the officers' claims that they had purchased two bags of cocaine from the quartet.

Published by New York Post on June 29, 2008.

The latest flap to hit the Organized Crime Control Bureau - revealed in The Post today - involves a botched "buy-and-bust" operation on Jan. 4 in which undercover officers allegedly framed two brothers and their friends at Elmhurst bar and restaurant Club Delicioso.

Published by New York Post on June 28, 2008.

Rizzuto grew up in nearby Glendale but played baseball in Richmond Hill as a high school student. Famous residents of Richmond Hill have included Jack Kerouac, Jacob A. Riis and the Marx Brothers.

Published by New York Times on June 27, 2008.

Brown says the two women stole the identities of the married couple by asking the postal service to forward the couple's mail back to their old address in Rego Park, Queens. The DA says they then opened numerous credit card accounts in the couple's name between January 2008 and June 2008.

Published by amNY.com on June 27, 2008.

Park officials say "The Scooter" grew up in nearby Glendale, Queens, and played high school baseball in Richmond Hill.

Published by amNY.com on June 27, 2008.

Time has taken its toll on the funeral market in Elmhurst, Queens, snatching up mortuaries in the community.

Published by New York Times on June 21, 2008.

Agnes Bermudez, 48, a former stock trader, remains in critical condition at Jacobi Hospital's burn unit - and hasn't been able to talk with police and fire officials investigating the inferno that ripped through a Middle Village building last Sunday.

Published by New York Post on June 21, 2008.

Councilman John Liu said the MTA should formulate a new procedure for public input to determine bus routes, citing the controversial effort to extend lines to The Shops at Atlas Park.

Published by New York Post on June 20, 2008.

On Sunday, he was heard arguing with a woman shortly before the blaze broke out at the three-story building at 69th Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village.

Published by New York Times on June 20, 2008.

Back in April, as I was trying to figure out how the hell to get out to Glendale for my interview with the Cash Giveaway King of Queens, Damon Hemmerdinger, development director for the Shops at Atlas Park, I asked his rep...

Published by The New York Observer on June 20, 2008.

That’s for sure. Teen Spirit has been pretty scarce around here lately. He goes off to “Eric’s house” on weekend nights, when he’s not at band practice, at a show somewhere in Bushwick, Williamsburg or Fort Greene, or hanging out with friends in Brooklyn Heights.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on June 20, 2008.

Investigators believe Agnes Bermudez doused her boyfriend William Salazar with carpet cleaner while he slept and set him on fire Sunday morning.Salazar, 31 died from his injuries on Thursday while Bermudez remained hospitalized Friday.Three other people -- a married couple and their son -- were killed in the blaze.

Published by WNBC on June 20, 2008.

Bermudez, a 48-year-old former stock trader, has been in critical condition at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx since running out of Salazar's Middle Village apartment engulfed in flames.

Published by New York Daily News on June 20, 2008.

Police say a girlfriend with a grudge may be behind a deadly fire in Queens that broke out in a Middle Village apartment building on Sunday.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 20, 2008.

Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe testified this morning before the City Council's Committee on Parks and Recreation about the plan to develop the Ridgewood Resevoir in Queens into a public park.

Published by The New York Observer on June 19, 2008.

Dennis Rivera's family filed suit against the Department of Education, the NYPD and the city over the 5-year-old's treatment at Public School 81 in Ridgewood.

Published by New York Daily News on June 19, 2008.

Observer intern Bharat Ayyar reports that at this morning's City Council hearing on the development of the abandoned Ridgewood Reservoir, Bill Thompson, Adrian Benepe and Helen Marshall pushed to keep the area wild.

Published by The New York Observer on June 19, 2008.

The horrific blaze, which killed three family members living in the Middle Village building, likely began inside the second-floor apartment near the front door, said a utility inspector.

Published by New York Post on June 18, 2008.

Friends and family mourned a makeup artist killed on Sunday when a suspicious fire engulfed her Jackson Heights home.

Published by New York Times on June 18, 2008.

Her husband, Heriberto Garcia-Vera, 68, was found dead of smoke inhalation in the third-floor apartment they shared on 69th St. in Middle Village.

Published by New York Daily News on June 17, 2008.

The deaths of three relatives in a horrific Queens fire were labeled homicides, a published report said. The Daily News reports that investigators have labeled the Sunday's fast-moving blaze in Middle Village arson.

Published by WNBC on June 17, 2008.

"This has turned into a homicide investigation," Fire Marshal Commander William Law said at the scene in Middle Village at 69th Street and Metropolitan Avenue.

Published by New York Post on June 17, 2008.

Middle Village resident Ray Zerrenner, 50, said the high price of gasoline makes even short trips to Belmont and Aqueduct a hardship.

Published by New York Post on June 16, 2008.

Three people died and several others were injured when a fire ripped through a building in Middle Village, Queens, and forced people to jump from their windows.

Published by New York Times on June 16, 2008.

He said the family had just recently moved into the building in Middle Village from Richmond Hill.

Published by New York Daily News on June 16, 2008.

Fire department officials said the blaze began around 7:30 a.m. The two-alarm fire likely started in the stairwell on the first floor, but quickly spread to the rest of the three-story building at 66-76 69th St. in Middle Village.

Published by New York Sun on June 16, 2008.

Three of the injured were forced to jump out of a window to save their lives.Firefighters said the blaze engulfed a building in Middle Village with a deli on the ground floor and apartments on the second and third floors.The two-alarm fire was reported at about 7:58 a.m., authorities said.

Published by WNBC on June 16, 2008.

Fire marshals said arson may be to blame for Sunday's fatal fire in the Middle Village section of Queens.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on June 16, 2008.