Fire Truck Hits Boy

from WNBC

In Jackson Heights, a fire truck trying to avoid a double-parked car struck a boy Saturday who slipped and fell on a wet street, New York City fire officials said...

...Authorities said the truck was traveling with its lights and sirens on. It was responding to a call about a possible fire at 8109 Northern Blvd. That call turned out to be unfounded...

Declaring War on Street Cuisine

By ALEX MINDLIN for The New York Times September 3, 2006

IN the noisy shadow of the elevated No. 7 train in Jackson Heights, Queens, an assortment of Mexican and Ecuadorean restaurants lines the mile-long stretch of Roosevelt Avenue between 80th Street and Junction Boulevard.

These restaurants are mirrored by one of the city’s most exuberant arrays of pushcarts. .. Local restaurants have long maintained an uneasy truce with these pushcarts. But over the last year, restaurant owners say, the number of food vendors in the neighborhood, many of them unlicensed, has crept upward...
...City Councilman Hiram Monserrate, whose district includes part of Jackson Heights, is weighing in on the side of the restaurant owners. He plans to introduce legislation to cap the number of city permits for street vendors; currently, more than 9,000 have been issued...

Million mutinies

by ANJALI KAMAT for The Hindu Sunday, Sep 03, 2006

Fatal Love, the annual South Asian cultural event organised in New York, elegantly traversed the double worlds of ongoing struggles in the U.S. and South Asia...
... This time the annual gathering, with art, performances, readings, and film screenings, was dubbed "Fatal Love", after the title of an article Suketu Mehta read at the first such event organised in 2000 by the Queens Museum and artist Jaishri Abichandani in the nearby South Asian immigrant stronghold of Jackson Heights. Since 2002, Abichandani has curated this well-attended event to build and celebrate solidarity among the many peoples of South Asia. ..

Sabini v Monserrate

Campaign Notebook: Dueling Endorsements by Christopher Henderson, Queens Chronicle Assistant Editor 08/31/2006
As the heated race between incumbent state Sen. John Sabini (D Jackson Heights) and City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D Corona) enters the final two weeks of the campaign, the candidates are holding almost daily announcements of endorsements...

Senate Debate Includes Insults Aplenty by Christopher Henderson, Queens Chronicle Assistant Editor 08/31/2006
Until this week the fierce battle for the 13th state Senate seat in Northwest Queens has been waged with press releases and blog entries. That changed on Wednesday night, when the first face to face confrontation between incumbent Sen. John Sabini (D Jackson Heights) and insurgent City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D Corona) escalated the heated campaign to a fever pitch...

Boro pols pick sides in primary BY FRANK LOMBARDI, DAILY NEWS, CITY HALL BUREAU, September 1, 2006
Name-dropping is playing a big role in the hot primary contest for a Queens state Senate seat between incumbent John Sabini and challenger Hiram Monserrate...

The Other Unity Event Today by Azi Paybarah, The New York Observer, September 5, 2006
Ferrer and Green will be in Jackson Heights endorsing City Councilman Hiram Monserrate for state senate against incumbent John Sabini...