Man Wanted For Public Lewdness on E Train in Forest Hills Friday

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has announced a plan to provide 13 Sunnyside households displaced by a devastating fire in December 2023 with an additional round of six-month temporary housing agreements.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams

A Long Island woman was struck and killed by the driver of a yellow cab in a chain-reaction crash in South Ozone Park during the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 28.

Vidya Dookran-Franco, 51, of Bernard Street in Merrick, was walking with two men on the sidewalk near the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and 115th Avenue at 3:10 a.m. when the cab struck a vehicle and jumped the curb ramming the three pedestrians, police said Sunday.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Colum Motherway

The New York Lottery announced on Saturday, Dec. 28, that a top-prize winning ticket for the Take 5 Midday draw on Dec. 27 was sold in Ridgewood.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Council Member Sandra Ung partnered with a local nonprofit organization to provide relief to elderly victims of a benefits scam that left them without essential resources ahead of the holiday season.

Dec. 29, 2024 Reuters and amNewYork Metro

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died on Sunday at the age of 100 — the first president ever to live to be a centenarian. 

Dec. 29, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell

A fast-moving Queens fire on Sunday morning left one person critically injured and more than 20 people and pets homeless, Fire Department officials said. 

Dec. 29, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki

Queens detectives need the public’s help in finding the suspect behind a violent stabbing earlier this month.

Police from five Queens precincts are looking for a pair of burglars who targeted independent mom-and-pop drugstores from Fresh Meadows to Astoria throughout December.

The two men allegedly broke into three drugstores in three different neighborhoods in a half-hour during the morning of Sunday, Dec. 15. While one stood guard outside a drugstore at 63-09 39th Avenue in Woodside, his partner broke through the glass front door at 5:50 a.m. Police from the 108th Precinct reported that he removed $400 in cash before leaving.

Dec. 27, 2024 QNS News Team

The Annual Chanukah Celebration, widely recognized as the largest event of its kind in New York City, is set to return to Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows on Monday, Dec. 30.