Burgeoning Health-Food Chain Makes City Debut In … Queens?

Is crunchy Bobo Brooklyn out of retail space already?

Arizona-based nutritional fast-food purveyor Beyond Juice announced on Friday its first New York City location — at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center in the Bayside section of Queens.

"[I]nitially it was a difficult choice,” admitted Doug Weinstein, the company's managing director, in a statement.

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The Invention of Human Topiary

I spoke to Ivan Rezki, who still lives in the house where he grew up, in Bayside, Queens.

SPARROW: I understand your mother, Sarah, invented human topiary.

MR. REZKI: Yes, she did.

Sparrow: Can you explain?

Mr. Rezki: Topiary, of course, is the art of trimming trees and bushes into amusing shapes. My mother was Read More

Events for August 25-27, 2006 [updated]

Tonight, Jonathan Tasini rides with Critical Mass bikers in Union Square.

Tom Suozzi appears on NY1.

On Saturday, a march “against Israel aggression in Lebanon and Gaza” kicks off at 2 p.m. in Astoria’s Athens Square Park.

Democrats in Bayside car pool to help Andrea Stewart-Cousins’s campaign in Westchester.

Hiram Monserrate campaigns Read More