Over the past 4 years it has been my pleasure to put together our yearly Queens Week issue. Queens Week was born in a meeting with Jack Friedman of the Queens Chamber of Commerce many years ago with one simple idea in mind. How can we let all of NYC know all the great things Queens has to offer in one felt swoop. We looked at the calendar and went back and forth on dates but we found, that year that the month of May had an extraordinary number of events going on all over Queens and we listed them all, from the Rockaways to Long Island City, we had an event from every town in Queens and our first issue launched on Sunday May 8th, 2011.
We have continued to run this issue yearly right around May and have seen other projects like the LIC Arts Open flourish. Queens is definitely on the map and the Daily News has been there every step of the way. We have been proud sponsors of the Queens Chamber's Expo and more recently have been the title sponsor of the business breakfast going back to 2011. We are a media sponsor for the Taste of Queens, the QEDC's largest fund raiser and food tasting event as well, watching that grow by leaps and bounds year over year. We have also been involved at the hyper local level with great organizations like the LIC Partnership. We have been a media sponsor for them for everything from their huge annual trade show to smaller business card exchanges and their Real Estate breakfast. In addition to LIC, we have sponsored the Taste of Sunnyside, the Taste of Woodside, Taste of Bayside and donated tickets for raffles for plenty of organizations and always had giveaways for other events.
The Daily News continued their commitment to community organizations by partnering with them on special sections as well. We have visited so many towns in Queens by producing sections like "Summer in Astoria", "Summer is Hot in LIC", "Shop Sunnyside", "Shop Forest Hills" which comes out twice a year and we even did a section for Farmers Boulevard, talk about hyper local! When the QEDC saw the damage and destruction in the Rockaways from Sandy they came to us and together we did a Rockaway section to show the rest of NYC that the Rockaways were back and ready for business. Fuhgettabout Jersey Strong, we had the Ramones singing "Rockaway Beach" and we look to make that an annual issue.
The main reason we do these sections is that we believe that a person in Jamaica should know that they could go to LIC, Astoria, the Rockaways or anywhere in Queens to spend a your day or grab a bite, but the power and the brand of the Daily News helps extend past your towns borders and brings in people from the Bronx, Manhattan, New Jersey and more importantly the very airports that drive our economy. We are a global borough and have a ton to offer and with this year being the anniversaries of the World's Fairs that took place in Flushing Meadow Park we have so much to offer. All of our cultural institutions have stepped up their game and we published a huge calendar of events for this years celebration
So if you get a chance, check out our Queens Week issue. Its a passion project for us and one that we are very proud to work on year after year. Also if you are at the Queens Chamber of Commmerce's Trade Show on May 13th at CitiField, or if you're coming to the World's Fair celebration day in Flushing Meadow on Sunday May 18th, stop by and say hello to your friends at the Daily News booth, we would love to talk Queens with you
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