Jackson Heights / Elmhurst News Briefs
This section contains a number of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst news briefs
JHBG Tree Lighting Ceremony 2009
Jackson Heights / December 16, 2009. Ah yes, another year gone by. So hard to believe that ought ten is only two weeks away. The Jackson Heights Beautification Group [aka JHBG] hosted another tree lighting event in front of the U.S. Post Office on 37th Avenue near 78th Street.
This year the emcee was Len Maniace and the prayer was given by the reverend Ronald Tompkins standing next to him [see photo album for many more and larger photos]. Teachers and students from 82nd Street Academics provided a little holiday performance of a reading, chorus accompanied by guitar. The band from PS 69 [Community United Methodist] also entertained the audience with a few musical numbers from its repertoire. Meanwhile the post office Christmas tree sat waiting quietly for its big moment. Click here to view photos of the Jackson Heights Beautification Group's annual Christmas Tree Lighting 2009.
Jackson Heights Food & Film Festival Cancelled
Jackson Heights / October 2009. This year the Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival [hereafter referred to as JHFFF] did not take place. First there were difficulties obtaining access to the Eagle Theater, which had served as the host for the film portion of the program in 2008. Since they could not obtain a commitment for a date for the film portion of the festival, the JHFFF held off scheduling the food portion.
In September the JHFFF managed to gain some sort of agreement from the Jackson Triplex theater on 82nd Street to host the event in one theater for one night only in October. Because of the limited time duration, the JHFFF had to reduce the number of films shown to two: a short film and a documentary. The JHFFF also couldn't pull together a full blown food festival on such short notice, and so decided to host a reception following the scaled back screening. When the arrangement with the Jackson Triplex theater fell through, for reasons unknown, the film portion was completely cancelled.
By this time the food portion was scaled down to an after party reception at nearby Limoncella. Limoncella hosted a small reception, as what remained of "the show must go on". Needless to say, all in all it wasn't a good year for the Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival. Click this link to view stories about the Jackson Heights Film Festival and the Jackson Heights Food Festival of 2008.
Jackson Heights Film Festival Preview
Jackson Heights Film Festival Cancelled - See Report Above
October 19, 2009. This weekend is the 2009 Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival. It's on Saturday at the 82nd Street Triplex theater which is a beautiful classic turn of the last century movie theater. There will be a reception starting at 6.30 pm with food from six different area restaurants. The program includes three films: two shorts and one longer one. And the event will be followed by an after party at nearby Limoncello which is a small charming Italian restaurant. You might want to purchase your tickets through the Jackson Heights Film and Food Festival website [jhfff.org - $20 / $15] as seating is limited. Our full report of this event was cancelled due to cancellation of the festival.
Battle: Park Vs Parking
Jackson Heights / September 21, 2009. Summer is over and today is officially the first day of Autumn. Enjoy the week as the current forecast calls for dry and moderately cool.
Last Friday Transportation Alternatives and the Friends of Travers Park installed a temporary park along 37th Avenue near 78th Street [see photo to right]. The new park opened around 9.30 am. There were more visits to this park per square foot, than in nearly every other park in the city, and yet in spite of the large per capita square footage occupation rate, there wasn't any littering, rapes, murders or burglaries reported in the new park. But alas, all good things must come to an end and at 6 pm the city closed it and converted it into - of all things - a parking space!
All kidding aside, the event was intended to get people to think about how much space is devoted to automobile parking versus how much space is devoted to recreational space for people. Click here to view a photo album containing additional photos of the 'new park', as well as a few other photos of Jackson Heights this past weekend. In other events we covered this weekend, click here to learn a bit about the Jackson Heights Art Club.
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