The funeral for 55-year-old Greek-American George Patouchas will take place on Friday at 10 am. Patouchas was murdered in his shop in Astoria by a 23-year-olod maniac, Sunday at noon. A minute's silence was observed at the event of the New York City Council for Greek Independence.
A deranged slasher terrorized a Queens neighborhood for more than six hours Sunday, killing a 55-year-old Greek liquor store owner, burning a homeless man's skin off his body (who is also Greek, sources say), knifing a mother of four and tossing a caustic liquid at two cops before officers' bullets ended his madness.
The founder of the country's first Greek cable station is being honored with a street renaming in Astoria.