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Winter Solstice Celebration & Tree Lighting in Flushing
On Sunday, Dec. 6, the Queens Botanical Garden is getting in the holiday spirit with a number of festive activities. During the Winter Solstice Celebration & Tree Lighting, there will be live music, arts and crafts, a tour of the garden’s grounds and an appearance from the big guy, Santa Claus.
Here’s a rundown of the day’s schedule:
- Garden tour at 1 p.m.
- Photos with Santa (separate fee) from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Botanical crafts (while supplies last) from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Join artist Mayen Alcantara on a walk through the Garden as she creates a site-specific art piece at 2 p.m.
- Live musical performances by The Rough Dozen a cappella group at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
- Tree lighting ceremony with Santa at 5 p.m.
Dress for the weather and don’t forget your camera for holiday snaps of your family.
SING program expands to Queens high school campuses
SING, a musical program in which students write, cast, rehearse and perform their own musicals, is coming to 20 more high schools, including five in Queens.
Thanks to Taylor Swift, who donated in partnership with the Fund for Public Schools, students from Flushing High School can participate in the public school tradition.
“SING gives our high school students an opportunity to work with their peers, and create and execute a project from start to finish,” said Chancellor Carmen Fariña. “This is a wonderful program for developing passions in the arts and for building school and community spirit. In particular, co-located schools will also be collaborating, bringing new excitement and camaraderie for our high schoolers. The SING students are going to gain skills and experience that they can use in college and throughout their lives.”
Bayside High School, John Bowne High School, Martin Van Buren High School and Thomas A. Edison CTE High School will also have SING.
Students will receive training and support as they build their school’s SING programs.
Police looking for man that groped teenager
Police are looking for a light-skinned man in his early 20’s that reportedly grabbed a 16-year-old girl’s buttocks in Flushing.
According to DCPI, the victim was walking in front of 138-12 60th Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. on November 17, when the man approached her and attempted to engage her in conversation. When she attempted to leave, the suspect grabbed her and then fled the scene.
Surveillance video of the suspect inside a nearby deli just prior to the incident below, courtesy DCPI:
77 year old man loses leg after being struck by hit-and-run motorcyclist
Min-Tsu Lin was engaging in his routine morning stroll when he was struck by a motorcycle on Parsons Blvd. near Rose Ave. in Flushing about 5:45 a.m., the Daily News reported.
The cold-hearted cyclist left his wheels and fled on foot after the accident, police said.
When first responders arrived, the senior was lying in the road unconscious. He was knocked out of his shoes and lying in a pool of his own blood. The upended blue motorcycle lay about 100 feet away, witnesses said.
Lin was rushed to New York-Presbyterian/Queens with critical injuries, officials said.
“His right leg had to be amputated and he has bad bruising,” the victim’s son, Tom Lin, 43, told the Daily News. “He hasn’t been conscious.”
The motorcyclist is still being sought by cops.
Lamborghini worth $450K stolen in Flushing
How does one go about successfully stealing an eye-catching $450,000 white Lamborghini Aventador convertible?
The Michigan-based firm Pinkerton has launched a private investigation into the missing vehicle that was stolen outside of the Al Oerter Recreation Center on October 28. They are offering a $100,000 reward for anyone who can provide information on the location of the car.
They are worried that the car might already be shipped off to a foreign market in either Asia, Russia, South America, Africa or the Middle East.
“With an exotic car like that, you can’t sell it here and you can’t drive around in it,” Chris McGoey, a private investigator and expert in crime and loss prevention, said to Fox News. “The only option is to ship it overseas, somewhere that nobody really checks on registration of cars.”
Oddly, the NYPD have no police reports regarding the missing vehicle and the car’s ownership hasn’t been identified.
Someone has clearly watched one too many ‘Fast and Furious’ films.
Police looking for alleged Flushing burglar
Police are looking for a man they say robbed a commercial office last week.
On Oct. 28 at about 7:30 p.m., police say a man – described as as a male in his 40’s who was last seen wearing a hooded sweatshirt, black head cover and sweatpants – entered a commercial business at 132-15 41st Ave., through a rear window. Once inside, he allegedly removed a computer, iPhone and about $300 in cash from the desk in the reception area.
The office was unoccupied so nobody was hurt, as a result of the alleged burglary.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS.The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.
New bike tour promises international food under the 7 train
If you’d like to sample a slew of Queens’ most diverse foods, but still keep in shape, you could join the Queens Bike Initiative on a bike tour that stops for various foods along the 7 train route.
The special “Cycle the #7” tour will be led by Joe DiStefano, a longtime food writer and expert, and will begin at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. The group, designed for bikers of all skill levels (as long as you are comfortable on a bike), will start the tour at John Brown Smokehouse in Long Island City and end at the Food Court in Flushing. Pit stops include Ecuadorian food carts in Corona, Turkish markets in Sunnyside, as well as stops to sample Tibetian, Japanese and Filipino cuisines.
The Queens Bike Initiative is hoping that the tour will help garner support for their plans and petition for bike lanes connecting parks in Queens.
Tickets for the tour are $30 each and include food. There are 15 spots available and you can purchase tickets here.
Stop and Shop opens new Flushing location
Stop and Shop opened its new location at 31-06 Farrington Street this week. The site was formerly a Pathmark but transformed into a Stop and Shop after Pathmark filed for bankruptcy.
An an introduction to the neighborhood, the company donated $2,000 to the local Flushing YMCA.
Flushing bar creates Mets-inspired drinks
Okay, so the Mets have not been doing so well. Still, don’t count the team out! In fact, while the team is back in Flushing, you can stop by their neighbor Leaf Bar & Lounge for drinks that are named after some of the players.
The bar, located at 133-42 39th Avenue, has a number of specialty drinks that are available during each World Series game for $8. The drinks will be sold from 5pm until the end of the game. They include:
· The deGrominator – a blue curacao cocktail honoring pitcher Jacob deGrom.
· The Dark Knight – for pitcher Matt Harvey and made with bourbon, a splash of club soda and a dash of bitters.
· Thor’s Hammer – a Scandinavian cocktail of lemonade, Aquavit liquor and muddled basil for pitcher Noah Syndergaard.
· The Murph – a Jameson Irish Whiskey homerun of a cocktail that honors infielder Daniel Murphy.
Fans of Murphy can recreate this drink at home by combining 1.5 oz Jameson, .25 oz Chartreuse Green, .5 oz lemon juice, 1 tsp of brown sugar and 5 muddled cucumbers in a cocktail shaker. Then, shake and double strain over a rocks glass filled with a two-inch ice cube. Garnish with a brandy cherry on a skewer.
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