Aravella Simotas

Assemblywoman Simotas wants to ban all but emergency vehicles between Astoria Park South and Ditmars.

Illegal electric bikes continue to be a scourge, despite a city ban, Queens politicians said.

The borough's only Planned Parenthood center is expected to open at 21-41 45th Rd. in May.

The plan would extend the median separating Astoria Boulevard North and Grand Central Parkway.

Three local officials have asked the mayor for an extra daily pickup service for public trash cans.

Parents and local leaders say the rumble of the N/Q outside P.S. 85 is disrupting students' learning.

Critics came out Wednesday night against the city's plan to co-locate a school at LIC High School.

The owners of a proposed 'bikini bar' on Steinway Street lost their liquor license bid Tuesday.

The group is hoping to purchase the Astoria property to one day turn it into a museum or community space.

CB1 voted against a recommendation for Racks, where the servers would don skimpy bikinis.

The owners behind proposed Steinway Street bar Racks are set to go before Community Board 1 next week.

Friends of Steinway Mansion want to find a buyer for the property, in hopes of making it a public space.

Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas wants state law to include forced anal and oral sex as rape.

Current gifted students will be granted spots at a new program that will launch next year at I.S. 126.

Aravella Simotas says the state's current definition of rape is too narrow.