Grant money to be used to spruce up Whitestone

By Chris Fuchs

Bayside envisions quaint brick sidewalks, College Point an improved shoreline. Whitestone plans to buy an empty lot, Bellerose to uproot a line of galvanized lampposts.

And with a $1.78 million state grant, secured from the Empire State Development Corporation by state Sen. Frank Padavan (R-Bellerose), to be doled out to parts of northeast Queens in this year