$1 million prize-winning Powerball ticket sold in Woodside

Oct. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

State Sen. Mike Gianaris hosted the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) at the Queens Public Library in Elmhurst Wednesday to help local residents secure their REAL IDs, which will be required to board domestic flights and access some federal facilities starting May next year.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Seniors across the world’s borough are invited to get active at the Queens Public Library, Mitchell Linden branch.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Shekar Krishnan has co-sponsored two bills presented to the City Council as part of efforts to crack down on alleged human trafficking and forced prostitution at illicit hotels and massage parlors in the city.

The FDNY and the city’s Department of Buildings (DOB) have shut down a Halloween haunted house in Hollis.

On Saturday, Oct. 5, they conducted a joint inspection at 211-17 Hollis Ave. and found unsafe conditions inside that posed a danger to the public, as well as first responders.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Julie Won has announced plans for the long-delayed “Long Island City Ramps” project, which aims to transform a gritty area under the Queensborough Bridge ramps into 50,000 acres of public land and park space.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Athena Dawson

A local nonprofit organization supporting developmentally disabled adults and children celebrated a significant funding injection of $550,00 from Assembly Member Nily Rozic (D-25). 

Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry

Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for a brazen burglar who broke into an East Elmhurst home late last month and was caught on a security camera making off with a large flat-screen television in broad daylight.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

As the city is set to take the next step in the “Trash Revolution,” many New Yorkers wonder what these new mandates and initiatives will mean for their households. 

A Flushing man was found guilty on Tuesday of brutally killing a 29-year-old woman at his Main Street apartment after a jury deliberated for just two hours before reaching a verdict.

Quming Wan, 55, was convicted of murder, sexual abuse, and related charges for the November 2021 death of Jiaomei Zhou, whose body he carried from his blood-soaked residence to the lobby before he was interrupted by other residents of his building across from Kissena Corridor Park.

Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry

An Astoria man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle near Citi Field on Monday afternoon.