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Elpida Vasiliadis, known as “The Souvlaki Lady,” has operated her food truck, practically a landmark, in Astoria for decades. Speaking to Greek Reporter recently, she stated that, although New York summers are brutally hot and winters unbearably cold, the relationship she...

Astoria was the place to be for Greeks who moved from their homeland to the United States around the turn of the last century.

A pair of Greek-American artists used New York's snowy weather to beautify their neighborhood by making a snow sculpture of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. Melissa Vadakara and Marios Tzavellas, residents of the Greek-American hub of Astoria, who are prolific...

Election fever has also caught the Greek-American community in Astoria, New York, as millions of Americans are heading to the polls for the Presidential election which is regarded as one of the most divisive and polarized ever. "Politics was so...

Friends and family, along with the entire Greek-American community of Astoria, are mourning the tragic sudden loss of 49-year-old schoolteacher Anastasia Paterekas, who was found dead at her home on Wednesday, June 10, 2020. At 9:09 p.m., New York City...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave an emotionally powerful speech to hundreds of Greeks and Americans of Greek descent in Astoria, New York on Wednesday evening. "I feel like I'm one of you, and I want you to feel that...

Two screenings of the film Maria by Callas are set to take place on January 27 at the Museum of the Moving Image, in Astoria, in Queens, New York. The 2018 film documents the fascinating, turbulent life of the...

As of Friday, October 26, 2018, 27th Street between 23rd and 24th Avenues in Astoria, Queens will also be known as “AKTINA FM Way” in honor of AKTINA FM Greek-American Radio and its important contributions to Greek-Americans and Americans...

A documentary tracing the 2,000-year history of the Sephardic Jews who lived in the picturesque lakeside town of Kastoria in northwestern Greece and their wipeout by the Nazis will air on September 26 on WNET Channel 13. Kastoria, in West...

Melina Mercouri, the most emblematic woman in modern Greece, is celebrated in a theatrical play presented by the Silver Thespian Cyprus Theatre Company, for three nights only, October 27, 28 and 29, at the Hellenic Cultural Center, Astoria New...

  An outdoor barbecue of souvlakia and baby lambs was held on Sunday, May 7 at the Geros Tou Morea chapter of the Pan Arcadian Federation of America celebration on Sunday, May 7. The event took place at an NYPD closed street in front...

The largest donation ever made to an educational institution of the Greek diaspora was made by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to benefit St. Demetrios High School in Astoria. The donation to the high school exceeded 2 million USD and...

    The Nisyrian Society of New York celebrated their Apokreatiko Glendi, Friday evening February 24th in its headquarters at 31-80 41st St, Astoria, New York. Asteri band entertained over one hundred and fifty hundred islanders and their guests. Where is Nisyros?...

Instead of consistently trying and failing to curb repeated graffiti bombed locations, Congressman Joseph Crowley and Councilman Costa Constantinides have decided to fund murals at certain key points in Queens. “We wanted to do something that fit with the Federation of Hellenic Societies’...

George Patouhas, 55, owner of a liquor store in Queens, was stabbed to death by 23-year-old James Patrick Dillon on Sunday, according to The New York Times. The Greek-American shopkeeper was known for his friendly manners and lenient payment plans....