Frank Padavan

Off to the Races: These are the three Republicans from New York City currently serving in the New York State Senate Frank Padavan: The Queens pol has served in the Senate for 36 years, but is getting a spirited challenge from city councilman Jim Gennaro...

Menus, circulars and other advertisements on New Yorkers' doorsteps could now drum up fines rather than sales as enforcement of a new law gets underway, a councilman warned Sunday. Under the so-called "lawn litter law," property owners who post a sign...

There's a pivotal election coming this fall, and it doesn't have anything to do with senators named Obama and McCain. Instead of a national stage, this one plays out in a little corner of Queens, and the candidates squabble over water rates, property...

Gov. Paterson did some of those closely-monitored hail-fellow statements at a Queens press conference today -- where Sen. Frank Padavan stayed on hand for some Paterson WWF-type hype as the Republican elephant in the room, as Liz posts here. In......

The fox is yanked from among the rows of cramped, filthy cages where it has spent its short life. Metal rods are attached in two locations and a battery turned on, electrocuting the animal for its fashionable fur. And it doesn't always work the first...

For waterfront access, there's no better city neighborhood than Whitestone, the sleepy residential area between the Throgs Neck and the Bronx Whitestone bridges in Queens. The modest single-family houses that form the backbone of the housing stock are...

Indian land claims are the migraine headaches of New York State governance: Lasting relief is hard to come by. Since the 1970s, tribes that once dominated the state have been trying to reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres they argue was unlawfully...