Jackson Heights Community Supported Agriculture program

Farm Spot will be a Jackson Heights Community Supported Agriculture program.
Sign up at www.farmspot.org

For informational fliers leave a message at 718-512-5097
Or send your name, email and building name and address to
mnlehmer (at) yahoo (dot) com

You will also be able to sign up at The Towers Book Fair, Sat, April 8th.

Jackson Heights Tour in April

by John Roleke for about.com

...You'll get a sneak peek of spring plantings in a co-op's gardens -- and maybe even step inside...

...April 23, 2006, 2 - 4 p.m.; Fees $12, $10 for Queens Historical Society members
Queens Historical Society, 718-939-0647 X17...

Commuter hit by subway train

WABC, March 26, 2006

... It happened at the 74th Street and Roosevelt station on the R subway line in Jackson Heights just after 2:00 p.m. Sunday.

Police say a 53-year-old man was standing on the Manhattan bound platform when he was struck by an oncoming train. ..

Immigration Debates Echo Concerns in Washington

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE for the new York Times Published: March 26, 2006

Hundreds of people attended pro- or anti-immigration rallies in the New York area yesterday, the latest in a nationwide series of demonstrations held as Congress debates legislation that would substantially revamp the country's immigration laws.

The rallies, held in Manhattan and Queens, and in Bogota, N.J., were mostly modest affairs. The largest was in Queens, where organizers estimated that a few hundred people gathered at a meeting in Jackson Heights billed as a "dialogue with elected leaders." ...

Queens Men Seek Seat in a Congress 2,500 Miles Away

By COREY KILGANNON Published: March 11, 2006 for New York Times

If the voters turn out for Jairo Casas this Sunday, he will say goodbye to all that — meaning, all that shark cartilage, bee pollen and cat's claw — and take up a prestigious congressional seat in Colombia, representing Jackson Heights and other enclaves of Colombian expatriates beyond New York...

..Mr. Casas is one of three candidates running from the Jackson Heights area of Queens, which has the largest enclave of Colombians in the United States outside of Florida.