Ken had just graduated high school. Henry Rudzewick, a New York City firefighter, was determined to see him get a job. "You're not going to be hanging around the house all the time," Ken, who is 88, recalled his father saying. Henry called his friend, Franklin Frontera, president of the depositor-owned Maspeth Federal Savings. Ken started as a teller the next day. "I had my shirt and tie on, and I walked to the bank," he told American Banker. "I lived four blocks away."
There's a line out the door at Datz Deli, and somebody's waiting three hours for an oxtail macpatty. For most New Yorkers, that sounds insane. For Hollis, Queens, it's just another day at Datz Deli. The family-run Guyanese-American deli has become one of New York City's most viral food spots, known for overstuffed mac patties, Caribbean flavors packed into deli-style creations, and social media videos that regularly pull millions of views.
A 15-month-old baby boy who died under unclear circumstances was found in a bathroom alongside his mother, who had slit her wrists in an apparent suicide attempt inside their Queens home on Monday, cops said. Both the toddler and his mother were found inside the bathroom of their single-family home on 157th St. near 109th Ave. in Jamaica around 1:37 p.m., said police.
Hasidic rabbis attended the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries and gathered in prayer Friday in the Queens borough of New York City at the resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He was known as "the Rebbe" and was one of Judaism's most influential figures of the 20th century.