83-Year-Old Man Fatally Hits Elderly Woman in Oakland Gardens While Backing Out of Garage

Apr. 16, 2024 QNS News Team

The 2024 Bethpage Best of the Boro winners gathered on Wednesday, April 10th, for a night of celebrations at the Penthouse at Terrace in The Park, a Flushing Meadows—Corona Park venue boasting beautiful views of the city’s famous skyline. 

Apr. 16, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The average rental price of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units across Queens increased 3.42% year-over-year from March 2023 to March 2024, according to a report released by the real estate firm M.N. S. Real Estate.

Apr. 16, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld

New York City lawmakers are seeking to ban “non-essential” helicopter flights from city-owned heliports, in a bid to curb excessive noise and pollution they argue is generated simply for unnecessary flights by tourists and wealthy commuters.

The driver involved in the fatal shooting of NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller in Far Rockaway last month was indicted on weapons charges, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday.

Lindy Jones, 41, of Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Edgemere, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with criminal possession of a weapon for a gun found in the car from which his codefendant Guy Rivera allegedly fired the fatal shot.

Apr. 16, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

The once-popular Triple Crown Diner, which has been closed for years, has now become a makeshift residence for a group of squatters.

Apr. 16, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Eight talented middle school musicians from Queens will grace the stage at Carnegie Hall on Apr. 29. They are set to perform alongside the New York Pops during the orchestra’s 41st Birthday Gala, honoring legendary producer Clive Davis.

Firefighters and EMS personnel rescued two construction workers who were trapped and pinned under a concrete slab after a retaining wall collapsed on them in front of a Springfield Gardens home on Tuesday morning. The FDNY received a call of a trench collapse at around 9:42 a.m. at a two-story home at 135-40 229th St., where the workers became trapped after the porch caved in on them.

“They were trapped under there for a while, one looked unconscious,” a concerned neighbor said at the scene.

Apr. 16, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki

Belmont Park saw Secretariat move “like a tremendous machine” around its massive oval more than five decades ago when “Big Red” won the 1973 Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown in record-setting glory before tens of thousands of fans who packed the massive, quarter-mile grandstand.

Apr. 16, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

In celebration of National Volunteer Month, Chandra Darsan, a local Astoria Park resident, was inducted into the 4th Annual New York Road Runners (NYRR) Volunteer Hall of Fame, along with six others.

The FDNY announced Monday that a 2-alarm fire that tore through an Ozone Park deli on Sunday morning was caused by exploding uncertified lithium-ion batteries.

Firefighters responded to a call at around 6:22 a.m. of a fire in a commercial building at 94-24 Rockaway Blvd. and found heavy fire conditions inside a ground-floor deli.