Views: 487Bria Braithwaite engages 100K+ audience, supports restaurant industry By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com With her iPhone, ring light and zest for life, Brooklyn-based influencer, Bria Braithwaite, strives to engage her audience and support the local restaurant...
Views: 505A small business with a huge heart By Michael Perlman mperlman@queensledger.com Queens is nicknamed the “The World’s Borough.” Holding up to its title is a most diverse culinary landscape, where Lime & Salt Cantina holds...
Views: 375Dominican immigrant embraces New York tradition By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com At one point in his life, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was something Dominican-born Carlos Garcia admired from afar as a New York tradition. Now,...
Views: 380Give & Go Delivery Project supplies food, necessities By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com Following her own personal humanitarian mission, Angela Gaton-Wiltshire dedicates much of her life to assisting those in need any way she can. After...
Views: 472Comedian/Comedy Writer By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com Tom Padovano of East Elmhurst loves nothing more than making people laugh. When he’s not up on stage performing at a private gig or a local open mic night,...
Views: 354Dog and seven puppies rescued by 104th Precinct By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com Last Saturday, officers from the 104th Precinct rescued an adult great dane and her seven puppies during a car stop on Woodhaven Boulevard...
Views: 363Reviving forgotten postcard treasures By Michael Perlman mperlman@queensledger.com Historians consider the first Thanksgiving meal to date to 1621, where 53 Mayflower pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Native Americans at Plymouth shared an autumn feast for a...
Views: 378By Jessica Meditz jmeditz@queensledger.com David Bonola was sentenced to 25 years in prison last Wednesday for killing Orsolya Gaal, a 51-year-old mom from Forest Hills, in April. Bonola, 44, of South Richmond Hill, pleaded guilty...
