Little Neck Week in Review

It was a pretty quiet week in the Little Neck area — that is, for everyone except one FDNY crew along Queens Boulevard and police officers responding to a early morning crash in Douglaston.

On Tuesday, firefighters in Sunnyside made a rare rescue, on the pavement near one of the borough's busiest thoroughfares. The last we heard, the hawk, which wildlife experts believe became disoriented and hit the side of a building near 41st Street, was expected to make a full recovery. 

Meanwhile in a flight of a different sort, a Douglaston man , smashing the vehicle into a utility pole in Douglas Manor. The perpetrator, Joseph Emmerich, produced one of the more memorable exchanges to grace a story published on Little Neck Patch: 

“He was pretty heavily intoxicated,” a police source said [of Emmerich]. “When he woke up chained to the bed, he asked the cop, ‘Am I in the hospital?’”

“The cop was like, ‘Dude, you’ve got a drinking problem,’” the source said.

Monday
The city Department of Education released . Because of tenure rules, it looked like District 26 schools were spared the worst of the possible cuts, which will become a reality if the state does not provide more education funding, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Tuesday
Remembered Places looks back at the history of a .

Wednesday
requiring crisis pregnancy centers to disclose certain info to clients, Councilman Dan Halloran, R-Whitestone, waded into the increasingly divisive issue of family planning. 

Thursday
Benjamin Cardozo's varsity boys basketball team advanced to PSAL's 'Elite 8' with over East New York Transit Tech.

Friday
Queens Library put out for help rebuilding 'sister' institutions hit by protests in Egypt's capital.

Saturday
Read about this Eagle Scout, "A" student at Queens High School of Teaching and gifted athlete — and now