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• NYC DOT Public Input Session about Congestion on Woodhaven Boulevard - May 19th - 5:30 pm

  Published: May 17, 2008, 9:50 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Department Of Transportation

  Session about CONGESTION ON WOODHAVEN BOULEVARD between Queens Blvd. and Liberty Ave. - Monday, May 19, 2008 5:30PM Forest Hills Community Library 108-19 71stAvenue (Between Queens Boulevard & 110thStreet)COME AND SHARE YOUR IDEAS AND CONCERNS!Directions to Forest Hills LibraryView Larger MapSubway:E, F, R, V train to 71st Ave. 1 block

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• Bowlers in Queens to Lose Woodhaven Lanes by James Angelos - New York Times

  Published: May 19, 2008, 8:10 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Forest Hills, Queens, Glendale, Woodhaven, Ny Times

  company that has operated Woodhaven Lanes since 1966, announced that it would not renew its lease on the bowling alley. Fearing the loss of their beloved lanes, bowlers held two rallies in an effort to persuade the building's owner, Woodhaven Realty, to keep a bowling alley on the property, but they were unsuccessful.No one involved with the

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• Queens Bowling Alley Will Not Be Spared - NY1: Queens

  Published: May 19, 2008, 8:05 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Forest Hills, Queens, Ny1, Woodhaven

  neighborhood fixture failed.Woodhaven Lanes in Forest Hills closed for good Sunday after nearly 50 years.Brunswick Bowling, the company which leased the lanes, wanted a rent cut but building management said mortgage costs were too high.Rallies over the last couple of months to save the bowling alley struck out.Efforts to keep the lanes open fell

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• DOT Studies Congestion Problems on Woodhaven Blvd by Alex Christodoulides - Howard Beach Times

  Published: May 26, 2008, 12:44 pm

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Cb10, Cb5, Betty Braton, Cb9, Cb6, Transportation

  outlining the study goals, the intersections involved, public transportation, traffic and pedestrian safety and community outreach efforts. The audience then split into groups to discuss their concerns, which were discussed at the end of the meeting. One that all groups mentioned is that

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• Woodhaven Lanes in Glendale, a Beloved Bowling Alley, Rolls into History by Nicholas Hirshon - NY Daily News

  Published: May 27, 2008, 9:39 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Forest Hills, Queens, Daily News, Glendale

  Parkway Arena in Brooklyn. Woodhaven Lanes opened in 1959 with innovative "telescore" screens installed on a dropped part of the ceiling, so they'd blend in when turned off. "Anyone you talk to who's been around for a while will remember Woodhaven as being the most modern when it opened," said veteran bowling writer Chuck Pezzano, 79. In late

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• Goodbye To Woodhaven Lanes by Austin Considine - Queens Chronicle

  Published: May 30, 2008, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Forest Hills, Glendale, Woodhaven, Cb6

  50 years of operation, Woodhaven Lanes held its last day of bowling on Sunday, May 18, as longtime bowlers there rolled their final games in farewell.Jim Santora, president of the Ball and Chain bowling league the largest league at Woodhaven Lanes, which boasted no fewer than 44 teams had already been bowling since 11 a.m. when he

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• WOE-HAVEN BOULEVARD Residents Sound Off On Roadway's Congestion Issues At DOT Hearing story and photos by Robert Pozarycki - Times Newsweekly

  Published: May 31, 2008, 9:17 pm

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Cb10, Forest Hills, Department Of Transportation, Timesnews Weekly, Cb5, Betty Braton, Cb9, Cb6

  flow and safety along Woodhaven Boulevard were the focus of a public hearing held by the city's Department of Trans-portation on Monday, May 19 in Forest Hills, as community residents offered their suggestions on where changes are needed along the roadway. The session at the Forest Hills public library was the first of a series of

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• Education Council Meets on Issues Around New School by BY Christina Heiser - The Queens Courier

  Published: June 2, 2008, 1:09 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Community Education Council, Ozone Park, Schools, Woodhaven, Nyc Department Of Education

  to open this September in Woodhaven lacks a safety plan for the students.The new school, P.S. 306, New York City Academy for Discovery, is located at 89-15 Woodhaven Boulevard, formerly St. Anthony's Hospital. How can we open the school without some kind of safety plan? asked Andrew Baumann, president of the CEC, at a meeting held at M.S.

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• HB Civic Reports Good News by Aliza Moorji - The Queens Courier

  Published: June 9, 2008, 12:30 am

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Cb10, Howard Beach, Parks, Ozone Park Civic Association, Betty Braton, 106pct, Eric Ulrich, Frank Gulluscio

  Board participated in the Woodhaven Boulevard study, which overlooks the amount of traffic and congestion in that area. He said the study is moving along rapidly because it involved the community. With the onslaught of people moving in, it [traffic] will only get worse, he added.Gulluscio also mentioned that there will be changes

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• The Secret Gardeners of Queens by Lisa J. Colangelo - NY Daily News

  Published: July 17, 2008, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Woodhaven Blvd, Forest Park, Parks, Flushing Meadow, Nyc Department Of Parks And Recreation, Daily News

  of seven buildings off Woodhaven Blvd., grows more than 200,000 annuals, perennials and assorted groundcover plants every year. About 50,000 of those flowers and plants are used in Brooklyn parks while the rest are used in Queens parks and other projects around the city. Director of Horticulture Frank Colella highlights the aging structure

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