The singer surprised an assembly full of students at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in the borough of Queens on Thursday, appearing with Tony Bennett, who opened the school in 2001 through his Exploring the Arts program.

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At the Jay Street station, Bedford-Stuyvesant student Shaniqua Robinson, 18, who rides the C to school in Queens, cataloged the train's failings.

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The singer surprised an assembly full of students at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, N.

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The three Muslim clerics are, respectively, the director of a Jamaica Muslim Center Koranic Memorization School in Queens, the deputy Amir (leader) of Majlis Ash Shura (a group that advocates the repressive theocratic code known as Shari'a Law) and New York University's imam, who forced the NYU administration not to display the Danish editorial cartoons of Mohammed that Islamofascists used to foment violence around the world.

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It's too bad that the system did not exist when Roth went to high school in the late 1960s in Queens, N.

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Gabrielle's school, Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School 109 in Queens, received an overall rank of B in the city's 2012 school progress reports, but a C in the "School Environment" portion, which includes rankings on safety and respect, communication and engagement.

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Public School 244, in the Flushing section of Queens, has been serving tofu wraps and vegetarian chili since going all-veggie earlier this year, schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said during a lunchtime visit.

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In 2004 the autistic daughter of Marvin and Suzette Josif, then 4 years old, was accepted at the New York Child Learning Institute, a private school in Queens, N.

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At Public School 169 in Queens, third-graders performed "Test Me Maybe" to the tune of "Call Me Maybe" for Walcott on Friday.

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