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ipickblue:
90th Street and 50th Avenue
Newtown of Elmhurst, Queens, NY 11373
Catholic HS goes coed: McClancy will enroll girls
One of the last all-boys Catholic high schools in Queens is hoping that going coed will lead to financial salvation.
Girls will begin taking classes at Msgr. McClancy Memorial High School in the fall of 2012, officials announced this week.
Accepting the fairer sex may save the East Elmhurst institution by giving its dwindling enrollment a boost.
“It’s going to be a real plus for our school,” said Principal James Carey. “We’re going to grow and continue to thrive.”
The 55-year-old school has bandied about the idea of going coed over the past decade. Several other schools run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, which oversees McClancy, have also added female students.
“It’s the wave of the future,” said Brother Joseph Holthaus, president of the school. “There’s definitely an interest for the girls to come here.”
McClancy decided to take the plunge because Catholic schools nationwide are suffering steep drops in enrollment due to the recession and students choosing to attend coed schools. The number of students has declined to about 450, down about 100 in the last five years, Holthaus said.
more via NY Daily News
 notaqueensphotoblog:
three dozen fun warm weather activities to do in queens…
spring, it’s finally here. and in no time summer-in-the-city’s brutal humidity and sweaty concrete jungleness and marinating stinky trash heaps and a/c drips drip-dropping on innumerable disgruntled faces as the sun harshly beats down will have us collectively craving the fleeting fall. but wait… oh yes, summer. queens may not have a park as nice as the one in brooklyn or any of the trendy outdoor brunch spots, shake-shacks, or highline promenades that manhattan boasts, but there certainly are some serious warm weather only-in-queens queenstastic gems waiting to be taken advantage of in this here borough.
a few suggestions…
1. hit up the lemon ice king in corona for some tasty ices and then watch the old italian dudes bet on competitive bocce ball at the park across the street.
2. smoke rich double apple hookahs and drink an arabic crushed ice fresh lemonade made w/ mint and rosewater on the sun-drenched steinway street sidewalks.
3. have an impeccably-poured pint of guinness outside at sean ogs in woodside.
4. rent bikes and aimlessly ride around flushing meadows park (it’s huge).
5. pack a bottle of wine and check out the glorious outdoor global cinema series at socrates sculpture park.
6. tacos and beach dayz at rocaway taco in far rockaway.
7. on a warm night, eat the greatest warm weather desert item ever, the colombian cholado, from el palacio de cholados on northern blvd. in jackson heights.
8. arm yourself with some board games and some friends and drink czech brews and eat sausages at the bavarian beer garden in astoria.
9. sweaty dancing summer warm-up dj/art parties at ps1 (free for lic/sunnyside residents!).
10. walk around 5ptz before scummy yuppie developers unceremoniously raise it to the ground and replace it w/ gaudy unsold lofts for citibankers.
11. sit outside and rock some cold horchata and the best fish tacos in the city at toterilla niximal in corona.
12. street food walking tour of roosevelt ave (61st to 100th st is my fav route).
13. swing on swings while brownbagging in the evenings at doughboy park in woodside after the kids depart.
14. visit the el guayaquileno ecuadorian truck in jackson heights and treat your senses and sweat glands to a spicy encebollado de pescado (fresh tuna soup).
15. devour paraguayan empanadas in the park on greenpoint ave. in sunnyside after paying a visit to i love py bakery for the very best empanadas in queens.
16. check out some top-class tennis and shameless peddling of luxury goods at the us open in flushing meadows.
17. enjoy the chill city views and some bbq at astoria park and, if feeling adventurous, the public pool.
18. relish a spicy green papaya salad and shrimp summer rolls w/ a thai iced coffee at chao thai in elmhurst.
19. check out the taiwanese boat races in flushing and be sure to cop a lychee smoothie at annual the dragon boat festival.
20. summerstage old school hip-hop shows at queensbridge park.
21. watch uruguay’s copa america tournament soccer matches over dulce de leche-filled churros and coffee at la nueva bakery in jackson heights.
22. daytime pints of magners irish cider over ice in the outdoor garden at the gaslight on queens blvd in sunnyside.
23. take in the sights, sounds, and tastes of the colombian Independence day fiesta in flushing meadows park.
24. ride on ziplines, climb walls, and hike in real live nature at alley pond park.
25. sing the praises of pat bing soo, a traditional korean shaved ice w/ fruit and red beans and all sorts of other crazy bangin’ ingredients in flushing.
26. take the 7 to flushing and walk to the gnesha temple for tasty vegetarian indian food and beautiful architecture.
27. doubles, rum, and soca music in trini richmond hill.
28. watch the semi-pro, mini nyc world cup soccer tournament copa nyc in flushing meadows park.
29. walk around the waterfront in long island city and then have a few drinks outside in the sun at lic bar.
30. visit the queens botanical garden in flushing meadows.
31. grab a dark coffee-ice-cube-iced coffee from baruir’s armenian coffee shops on queens blvd and then walk up skillman ave into tree-lined sunnyside gardens.
32. eat cheap but delicious greek food outside at pinocchio palaceon 30th ave and people watch in astoria.
33. enjoy the dynamic music and film at the latino cultural festival at queens theater in the park in flushing meadows.
34. eat a late night egyptian lamb sandwich on a crusty baguette from halal sandwich shop in astoria and then waltz up steinway for the devilishly good watermelon hookah, smoked out of an actual whole watermelon at melody lounge.
35. get a frozen custard from timmy-o’s in corona.
36. cheer on the hapless mets at citi field.
escoffiette:
It was a debacle the last time I tried to convince my great aunt and uncle to get dim sum. It was actually my birthday request in 2010, but we got lost, couldn’t find parking and my great uncle confusedly pulled up to the wrong restaurant altogether. They felt like they had to make it up to me and…
Audit Finds Long Waits for Breast Exams
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Women have had to wait dangerously long times for mammograms at several of New York’s public hospitals, a city audit released on Wednesday found. The audit examined waiting times at nine health care facilities in the 2009 fiscal year and found that the worst were at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, where women had to wait 148 calendar days for routine screening mammograms and 50 working days for diagnostic mammograms, when cancer is suspected.
John C. Liu, the city comptroller, said in a statement accompanying the audit that the long waiting times “placed women in jeopardy” and violated the city’s policies, which recommend waits of no more than two weeks for routine screening.
He said women who had to wait long times for appointments were more likely to miss them.
Ana Marengo, a spokeswoman for the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the public health system, said that the comptroller’s data was outdated and that high-risk patients at its hospitals received mammograms within 24 to 72 hours.
“If there is a lump, if there is a family history, if there is a high-risk individual that had cancer before, all those are considered urgent,” and the patient would be seen within 72 hours, Ms. Marengo said. She conceded that “two years ago, the wait time was longer,” and that even now, in cases in which the risk of cancer was considered lower, the wait could still be longer.
At Elmhurst, she said, the wait as of December 2010 was 20 days for screening and 23 days for a general diagnostic test, as opposed to an urgent one.
At Queens Hospital Center, the wait for a screening test was 56 days in December, Ms. Marengo said. “It’s due to volume and higher demand,” she said. “We only have a certain amount of resources.
”The audit found that the longest waits for diagnostic tests were at Bellevue Hospital Center, with 17 working days; Gouverneur Healthcare Services, with 20; Kings County Hospital Center, with 21; Woodhull Medical Center, with 28; and Elmhurst, with 50.
For screening tests, the longest waits were 41 calendar days at Woodhull in Brooklyn, 49 days at Queens, and 148 days at Elmhurst.
Elmhurst Hospital conducted the most mammograms, 11,425, and Queens was second, with 10,544, the comptroller said.
Last year, public hospitals performed 100,000 mammograms systemwide, up from about 92,000 in 2009, Ms. Marengo said. (Source: The New York Times)
@ForgottenNY Glendale, Queens Walking Tour
WHEN: Sunday, May 22, 11:00 AM
WHERE: Meet on sidewalk below Fresh Pond Road M train station, Fresh Pond Road
HOW MUCH: $20 (includes 1-year membership in the Newtown Historical Society. NHS members: $5
HOW LONG: abt 2.5 hours
TERRAIN: mostly flat
RAIN DATE: Sunday, June 5th, same time
Above: Glendale Veterans Memorial, Myrtle and Cooper Avenues
Tour led by Forgotten New York’s Kevin Walsh and Christina Wilkinson, President of the Newtown Historical Society
Ignored by the guidebooks and historical guides, Glendale is one of the most stable neighborhoods and, like many communities in western Queens, resembles a small town that has been swallowed up by a bigger one. It has been said that because of the many cemeteries on its southern end, there are more dead people than living ones in Glendale (and that could account for some of the stability!) Myrtle Avenue, its main drag, can get as busy as any throughfare in Flushing or Long Island City, though, and we will get a glimpse of some of that vitality, as well as plenty of Glendale’s former glories, anomalies, and quieter areas too (parts of Glendale approach rurality, not merely a small-town feeling).
The $20 admission fee for this tour includes a year’s membership in the Newtown Historical Society. $5 (cheap!) if you’re already a member.
If attending, contact your webmaster at erpietri@earthlink.net or kevin@forgotten-ny.com, or the NHS at newtownhistory@gmail.com. Tour limit: 35 - 40
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/glendale.tour.html
ipickblue:
3 “Love Padlocks” on a fence.
This custom was meant for couples to symbolize their undying love for the other by placing a lock on a fence, or something similar, lock it, and throw away the key. It shows that they’re committing their love for one another forever.
Picture taken in Elmhurst, New York.
I forgot the exact location, but it’s on the bridge that’s above the Long Island Expressway, Middle Village side.
dontcookbilly:
The Creek and The Cave got mentioned in the Daily News. Cool.
NYC’s first Asian-American woman firefighter rides a bike to work, and loves it
Think you’ve got a good idea of what a New York firefighter is like? Or a New York biker?
Well, get ready to reexamine some of your stereotypes, if you’ve got ‘em.
Sarinya Srisakul is the FDNY’s first Asian-American woman firefighter (she also happens to be a vegan). She rides her bike to work 10 miles from Elmhurst, Queens, to the East Village in Manhattan, because it gets her there faster than the subway, it keeps her in shape, and she loves it.
Srisakul’s story is the first in a series Streetfilms is doing for Bike Month in New York City. “My best advice for people out there is if you want respect out there on the road, you have to give respect,” she says. “Give respect to pedestrians, give respect to other cyclists, give respect to cars.”
Srisakul even schleps all her heavy firefighting gear on the bike when she is detailed to another firehouse.
“People think it’s absolutely nuts,” she says with a laugh. “Good thing I don’t really care what other people think. Otherwise I wouldn’t be a firefighter, either.”
via grist
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11PM, Jun 24 2011
