BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

This article is right on! Despite moving from Astoria almost 7 years ago, I still shop there - one of my children's schools is there, my children's doctors and dentist is there. I spent a week in the hospital there last January. I have friends there. I belong to WHY LEAVE ASTORIA and ASTORIANS for news and opinions on local businesses, which I support. Astoria has some recent additions in the form of world class restaurants - places which I gladly take my children! Just today I went to a small store that's only open a few days a week - and showcases the work of local Astoria artists. I went to pick out a nice birthday gift for one of my dearest friends and took one of my kids with me to help. I circled the block for 20 mins looking for parking, since I am disabled and can't walk very far many days. When I came out, I had to climb over poorly removed snow while a ticketing agent stood tapping his ticket machine by my car. My disabled placard tag was clearly pla...

PLEASE GET OUT OF MY CITY! ... and find somewhere else to be impotent, antisemitic, lame, rude and blind! Check out what these self-involved narcissistic "diplomats" actually DO spend their time on. THEMSELVES!! UN Seeks Immunity From NYC Lawsuit. New York, NY - First, it was parking tickets. Now, the dispute between New York City and United Nations diplomats centers on whether foreign countries should pay taxes on the high-rise apartments where they house their diplomatic workers. The Supreme Court was to hear arguments Tuesday from lawyers representing India and Mongolia, which are fighting New York's effort to collect property taxes from nations that operate diplomatic offices and house their employees in the same buildings. The two countries -- and the State Department -- want the court to declare that foreign missions have immunity from such a lawsuit. Under U.S. treaties, embassies and other diplomatic buildings are generally tax-exempt, but the city claim...