9-story housing project with 124 units proposed near Hallets Cove in Astoria

Sep. 3, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

As the IBX moves south from Maspeth’s Grand Avenue, the proposed light rail line’s third stop is Eliot Avenue in northern Middle Village, a mostly serene, tree-dense neighborhood of single-family homes that has virtually had the same personality since the 1950s. Public transportation is limited in this part of Queens, but the IBX – also known as the Interborough Express – would give residents of this suburban-like town more access to and from the area. 

Sep. 3, 2025 By Athena Dawson

For students attending Zeta Queens Jamaica Elementary School, Sept. 2 was the first of many first days of school. 

Sep. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry

State Sen. James Sanders and Council Member Joann Ariola met with a number of city and state agencies on Aug. 28 to discuss ongoing issues on the Joseph P. Addabbo Bridge connecting the neighborhoods of Howard Beach and Broad Channel.

Sep. 2, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Real estate developer TF Cornerstone announced the opening of a new nail studio, “sundays studio,” on the ground floor of the North building of the Malt Drive residential development, located at 2-21 Malt Dr. in the Hunter’s Point South section of Long Island City.

Sep. 2, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

The Louis Armstrong House Museum is set to debut a new oral history exhibition next month exploring the voices, memories, characters and legacies of the Corona and East Elmhurst communities that the iconic jazz musician was part of.

Sep. 2, 2025 By Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas

Four years ago, Hurricane Ida tore through our neighborhoods of East Elmhurst, Corona and Jackson Heights, leaving behind devastation we will never forget. We lost neighbors to the floodwaters. Families saw their homes destroyed, their basements wiped out, their lives upended. Immigrant families—so many of them undocumented—were hit the hardest, often excluded from relief altogether. Ida was not just a storm; it was a wake-up call.

Sep. 2, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

The average cost of homes for one to three families reached $1,013,558 in the second quarter of 2025, marking the first time that price has reached $1 million dating back to the second quarter of 2024, according to a report by the real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens.

A Long Island City woman was fatally struck by an unlicensed driver in Dutch Kills on Sunday afternoon and the motorist from St. Albans was arrested near the scene of the collision.

Sep. 1, 2025 By Claude Solnik

Dressed in her Sunday best in the form of a colorful, floral dress and a yellow hat and coat, Louise Stamp took the bus to church on Aug. 31, as she does each weekend. But this was also the first day of new bus routes across Queens, as she offered her opinion not on a Sunday sermon, but the Sunday commute to church.

Sep. 1, 2025 By Mayor Eric Adams