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All posts tagged "Queens"

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  NY Korean American community begins holiday sharing

  By The Korea Times New York staff The New York Korean American community is joining in on end-of-the-year charity efforts. The Korean American Presbyterian Church of Queens delivered 150 fruit baskets to about 20 local fire stations,...

  • Posted December 14, 2015
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  Queens public library to begin free Korean classes

    The Korean Education Center of New York reached an agreement with Queens Library in Flushing Thursday to offer free Korean-language lessons once a week. Classes will begin Oct. 16 and be held every Friday from 4...

  • Posted October 9, 2015
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  Queens Korean community services looks to open $8 million center

  By The Korea Times New York staff Queens Koreans may soon have a community center to call their own. Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York is pushing forward with its plans to install an $8 million...

  • Posted September 25, 2015
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  NY senior citizens group delivers rice to needy

  By The Korea Times New York staff A New York Korean American senior citizens group is sharing goodwill this Chuseok — Korea’s moon festival — by delivering rice to the needy. Homeless shelters, churches and community centers...

  • Posted September 25, 2015
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  Korean American Queens legislator tackles street purse snatcher

  Purse snatchers of New York, watch out for your district assemblyman — Ron Kim (D-Flushing), the state legislature’s first-ever Korean American member, chased and caught a thief on the streets of downtown Flushing last week. The assemblyman reportedly...

  • Posted September 21, 2015
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  Libraries sign MoU to expand Korean collection in Queens

  By the Korea Times New York staff Queens Library and the National Library of Korea shook hands on a Memorandum of Understanding Thursday to continue bringing Korean content to the “Window on Korea” collection in Queens, New...

  • Posted September 4, 2015
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  Queens Koreatown plaza project faces opposition

  A proposed project in Queens for a Koreatown Plaza has hit a roadblock. The project, slated to be located at Leonard Square on Northern Boulevard and 156th Street, has been met with resistance from the local Broadway-Flushing...

  • Posted August 6, 2015
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