Even before the migration back to Poland began, the Polish community in Greenpoint was fracturing under the pressure of gentrification, which drove up property values. Young families, new immigrants and those of modest means have in turn settled in nascent Polish communities in the city, including Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens, and Borough Park in Brooklyn, while others have moved out of the state.

Published by New York Times on September 21, 2008.

Even before the migration back to Poland began, the Polish community in Greenpoint was fracturing under the pressure of gentrification, which drove up property values. Young families, new immigrants and those of modest means have in turn settled in nascent Polish communities in the city, including Maspeth and Ridgewood in Queens, and Borough Park in Brooklyn, while others have moved out of the state.

Published by New York Times on September 21, 2008.

Wong, 56, made life a living hell for single dad San Martin, 39, from the moment he moved into her Elmhurst apartment building in February 2006.

Published by New York Daily News on September 21, 2008.

She decided about two years ago to organize her own group and started recruiting members through the Internet. Eventually, several performers were meeting at Ms. Sapozhnikova’s loft in Ridgewood, Queens, teaching one another different skills.

Published by New York Times on September 18, 2008.

“It’s got to be one of the best-kept secrets in New York,” said Greg Ivan Smith, 38, a filmmaker from Sunnyside, Queens, enjoying a picnic of tapenade and bruschetta with friends and neighbors on Saturday afternoon. “You feel like you’re on a New England college campus.”

Published by New York Times on September 15, 2008.

Earlier Thursday, a worker was critically injured when he fell three stories at a construction site on Union Ave. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Published by New York Daily News on September 12, 2008.

The temporary lane planned for Kent Avenue would be a precursor to a 14-mile greenway stretching from Newtown Creek in Greenpoint to Sunset Park.

Published by New York Post on September 12, 2008.

9:30 a.m. Assembly energy committee members hold a press conference to address the expected winter home heating crisis at Self Help Community Service Inc., Maspeth Senior Center, 6961 Grand Ave. (11:30 a.m. at Staten Island Borough Hall.)

Published by The New York Observer on September 11, 2008.

At the moment, Dosa Garden is the only Indian restaurant to serve dosas. Indian Clove in Sunnyside soon will be opening an offshoot to their upscale dining room with a vegetarian-Indian Dosa place next door. Dosa Garden delivers to some parts of the North Shore.

Published by SI Live on September 11, 2008.

On Withers Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the towers once loomed above the Williamsburg Bridge on the western horizon, Theresa Cianciotta, an assistant to a state assemblyman, said she never left her house now without casting a rueful glance at the skyline.

Published by New York Times on September 11, 2008.

"Nobody was really outraged at the time because nobody was sick at the time," said the 73-year-old Middle Village, Queens, resident, who was diagnosed with lung cancer last year. He was the last of the three friends to be diagnosed with the disease.

Published by New York Daily News on September 6, 2008.

While on post at the fire command center, the Elmhurst, Queens, native wreaked havoc by using his personal laptop computer to send three online messages to the Web site GoAmerica.com, which uses a live operator to relay the typed missives over the phone, prosecutors said.

Published by New York Daily News on September 5, 2008.

Mehmet M. Kadayifci, 19, of Elmhurst, made the threats while working early Wednesday morning at the U.S. Tennis Association's fire command center in Flushing Meadows where he was supposed to be monitoring surveillance cameras for signs of fire, said

Published by WNBC on September 4, 2008.

Mahmet Kadayifci, 19, of Elmhurst, was working his midnight to 8 a.m. shift Tuesday at the United States Tennis Association's command center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park when he made the prank calls, authorities said.

Published by amNY.com on September 4, 2008.

Cancel allegedly confessed after cops arrested him at about 12:45 yesterday at his father's home in Ridgewood, Queens.

Published by New York Post on September 3, 2008.

The suspect confessed after cops arrested him at about 12:45 this morning at his father's home in Ridgewood, Queens. The 22-year-old had allegedly been ransacking and trying to rob the home.

Published by New York Post on September 2, 2008.

Philomena Gotti, the mother of the late John (Dapper Don) Gotti, was buried in a plot next to her husband, John Gotti Sr., at St. John's cemetery in Middle Village.

Published by New York Daily News on August 31, 2008.

New Lots: wonder what that’s like. Dyre Avenue? Sounds kind of grim. Middle Village — what is that, a jousting park? As it turns out, the end of the line, like most ends, is a place of abiding mystery.

Published by UPTOWNflavor on August 29, 2008.

"I don't see why they can't be opend to the public," he stated. "I don't see anyone using the courts in Sunnyside at Petrides or in Huguenot at Tottenville sometimes. The courts are there. Why let them just go to waste?"

Published by SI Live on August 28, 2008.

Police said a woman who was driving under the influence struck and killed a man who was trying to cross the street in East Williamsburg early Thursday.

Published by WNBC on August 28, 2008.

Dumping of industrial materials into Newtown Creek dates as far back as the 19th century, but the oil spill that is the subject of litigation and legislation is believed to have begun in the 1950s.

Published by New York Times on August 26, 2008.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to conduct “preliminary tests” that could lead to Newtown Creek being named a federal Superfund site, a designation that could accelerate long-stalled cleanup efforts in the polluted, oil-slicked 3.5-mile estuary between Queens and Brooklyn.

Published by New York Times on August 25, 2008.

Saturday night, a portion of the Mass at Christ Tabernacle Church in Glendale was dedicated to Donna Rypkema, who remains hospitalized in serious condition with head trauma, suffered after a dead tree branch fell on her while from a railway overpass in Ridgewood.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 24, 2008.

The first stop was Elmhurst, Queens, where a caller had reported that five pit bulls were caged in the back of a used-car lot.

Published by New York Times on August 23, 2008.

Jerry Antonacci, owner of Crown Container, says he reached an agreement earlier this week to sell his 23,000-square-foot parcel on 34th Avenue and move to Maspeth, Queens, should the city’s proposal pass successfully through the land-use process.

Published by Crain's New York Business on August 22, 2008.

New playgrounds are also set to open this fall at PS 12, on 72nd St. in Woodside; PS 134 at 109th Ave. and 203rd St. in Hollis; and PS 153, on 60th Lane in Maspeth.

Published by New York Daily News on August 21, 2008.

The toppling tree hit Rypkema, a 10-year veteran of the Correction Department, in the head and knocked her unconscious Sunday afternoon as she walked on Myrtle Ave. in Ridgewood, officials said.

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

Rikers Island Officer Donna Rypkema, 37, was crossing Myrtle Ave. about 4:15 p.m. when a tree toppled from the elevated tracks in Ridgewood, a Correction Department official said.

Published by New York Daily News on August 18, 2008.

The tornado will be near Ridgewood and 6 miles north of Paramus by 4:50 pm, 6 miles north of Oradell and 6 miles south of Monsey by 4:55 pm, Pearl River and Nanuet by 5:00 pm, Tappan and Norwood by 5:05 pm, Orangeburg and Nyack by 5:10 pm.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on August 15, 2008.

Benjamin Chao, 52, of Maspeth, felt the same way - and hoped the end of the Olympics would bring a new appreciation of China.

Published by New York Daily News on August 15, 2008.

A hearing by the City Planning Commission on Wednesday combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

The hearing combined public testimony on Willets Point and two other rezoning projects, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and at south Hunters Point, along the East River in Queens.

Published by New York Times on August 14, 2008.

But the breakfast was nowhere near the 15th State Senate District, which stretches from Ozone Park and Howard Beach to Glendale and Maspeth

Published by New York Times on August 12, 2008.

Lastly, a car was reported stolen from Morgan Avenue, between Withers Street and Maspeth Avenue at around 7:50 am on July 31. The owner was given some good news; that the 113th Precinct in neighboring Queens had found and towed the car. Of course, this came with some bad news: the car was found without wheels and tires, and it was running without keys.

Published by Brooklyn Paper on August 6, 2008.

Residents and environmental activists in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn have also complained that the company abandoned a deteriorating barge in Newtown Creek.

Published by New York Sun on August 5, 2008.

The cars collided on the front yard of the home at the Grand Central Parkway service road at 69th Street.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 5, 2008.

The cars collided on the front yard of the home at the Grand Central Parkway service road at 69th Street.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 5, 2008.

The woman with a mental acuity roughly equivalent to a second-grader left her Sunnyside residence run by a Very Special Place last Tuesday to take a public bus to her Travis day program.

Published by SI Live on August 4, 2008.

Police raided Lynch's Middle Village home on Wednesday and discovered handguns, rifles, an AK-47 machine gun, a bulletproof vest, cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

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

A house built in the early 17oos, maybe even earlier, is now a historical museum but some locals still see it as a scary old house.

Published by New York Times on August 2, 2008.

Two days after they were seen at C.W. Post, Odierno's late-model Cadillac was recovered by the New York Police Department in Middle Village, Queens, after Odierno's wife activated the car's onboard OnStar tracking system, which pinpointed the car on Gates Avenue in the borough, Suffolk police said. The wife became worried after she hadn't heard from her husband, McCarthy said.

Published by amNY.com on July 30, 2008.

Karen Kelly, the developmentally disabled 55-year-old who disappeared Tuesday from her Sunnyside group home, sallied back into the residence run by A Very Special Place this morning.

Published by SI Live on July 26, 2008.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Published by WNBC on July 11, 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.

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.

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.