This article was originally published by The CITY on May 19, 2022

The clock is ticking on the final days of a likely-to-expire tax break real estate developers rely on to build new apartments — and the rush is on to get foundations in the ground before June 15, when 421-a will end unless the state legislature passes an extension.

May 19, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A local nonprofit wants to keep some of the borough’s underprivileged children in good health by promoting exercise via a new sport.

May 19, 2022 By Christian Murray

A dead body was discovered near a children’s playground in Alley Pond Park Monday morning.

May 19, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

The average price for a gallon of regular gas broke the $5 mark in Queens today—for the first time ever.

May 19, 2022 By Christian Murray

The Flushing Business Improvement District is launching its first ever restaurant week on Monday.

May 19, 2022 By Czarinna Andres

The police are looking for a man who allegedly grabbed the buttocks of a woman at the Court Square subway station Wednesday.

May 18, 2022 By Christian Murray

A woman who got into a vehicle in Manhattan—thinking it was a car service taking her to Brooklyn—was taken for a wild ride to Forest Hills during the early hours Sunday where she was sexually attacked by the driver.

May 18, 2022 By Christian Murray

The Sunnyside Drum Corps., which has been in existence since 1977, is looking for kids to participate in its program.

May 18, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A new business is opening in Long Island City that will merge two concepts–Indonesian beverages and Indonesian style clothing.

May 18, 2022 By Christian Murray

Police are looking for three men who allegedly robbed a Maspeth smoke shop at gunpoint Saturday and took off with thousands of dollars of merchandise and cash.

May 18, 2022 By Czarinna Andres

The NYPD is looking for four individuals who were involved in an assault of a subway conductor on the N line Tuesday and stole the keys to the train.

May 17, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A street corner in Kew Gardens will soon bear the name of a well-known historian while an intersection in Richmond Hill will be modified to carry the name of a local preservationist.

May 17, 2022 By Christian Murray

An Elmhurst resident launched his campaign in Maspeth Tuesday to nab the 30^th Assembly District seat.

New York City has more vacant apartments overall than it did five years ago even as units with monthly rents under $1,500 have dried up, according to a new report that also shows maintenance issues are surging across the board.

The highly anticipated 2021 Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS) arrived a year late on Tuesday, delayed by the pandemic. A 91-page summary analysis of the report from the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development paints a vivid picture of the rental landscape across the five boroughs, the places where renters live — and what they can afford.

May 17, 2022 By Christian Murray

The new state senate districts in western Queens have undergone significant change with both Astoria and Long Island City residents slated to be in entirely new districts—while the maps across the borough are much more compact.

May 17, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A Long Island City group that is focused on public safety is bringing back its team of security guards this summer to monitor the Hunters Point waterfront. The group is also expanding its service to include sections of Vernon Boulevard.

May 17, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A Corona man who fatally shot another man at point-blank range inside a Jackson Heights bodega in 2018 has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

May 17, 2022 By Christian Murray and Czarinna Andres

The Department of Education has reversed course and will allow Dr. Philip Composto, the current superintendent of District 30, the opportunity to keep his job.

May 17, 2022 By Czarinna Andres

Several Queens elected leaders gathered in Elmhurst Sunday for a rally in support of Steven Raga who is running to represent the 30^th Assembly District.

May 16, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

The owners of a Woodside restaurant whose business was destroyed in a fire last month are calling on the public for financial help so they can rebuild.

May 16, 2022 By Christian Murray

The new congressional maps were released Monday and while Queens is likely to remain blue, many voters—particularly in the western portion of the borough—are likely to find themselves in new districts with new leaders to choose from.

May 16, 2022 By Czarinna Andres

A popular no-frills, low-price supermarket chain is opening its second Queens location in Jamaica at the end of the month.

May 16, 2022 By Czarinna Andres

Police are looking for an armed suspect who approached a 24-year-old man from behind and repeatedly bashed him in the head with a firearm in Queens Village Friday.

May 16, 2022 By Michael Dorgan

A coffee shop that closed earlier this year is reopening under new ownership — and with a slightly different twist.

May 16, 2022 By Christian Murray

Residents of Council District 22 voted to spend $500,000 on outdoor lighting at Astoria Houses and $275,000 on tech upgrades at local schools, along with two other projects, when they went to the polls last month to determine how $1 million of city capital should be spent in the district through a process called participatory budgeting.