Manhole Fire Sends Smoke Billowing into LIC Restaurant, Windows Get Smashed

Sep. 11, 2025 By Dean Moses

The man allegedly responsible for brutally murdering a senior couple in Queens and setting them ablaze on Monday was charged with a staggering 16 counts of murder and went on an unhinged rant at his perp walk on Thursday. 

A former NYPD officer from Bellerose was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court on Sept. 10 to three years in prison for defrauding over 20 investors out of more than $4 million in a foreign exchange (forex) trading fund.

Jason Rodriguez, 38, pleaded guilty last November to conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to his role as the chief operating officer of Technical Trading Team LLC, based on a slew of misrepresentations.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Dean Moses

Nearly a quarter-century ago, the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001 not only stole the lives of 2,977 people but also irreparably reshaped the lives of survivors and their families.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

Mayor Eric Adams‘ campaign continued to insist Thursday that Hizzoner would stay in the mayoral general election, even while saying that it would conduct its own “independent poll” to make a decision on whether or not he will drop out.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Mount Sinai Queens maintenance worker Frank Parlatore remembers nothing of the day that changed his life, when his heart stopped for 45 minutes following a major cardiac arrest.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

It’s just not ‘fare’ — for both the MTA and New Yorkers!

U.S. Secret Service agents executed a search warrant at a Jamaica warehouse on Wednesday afternoon, following the arrests of four Queens men and a Brooklyn resident after an indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court on charges that they stole and resold more than $20 million in building and construction materials and appliances from home improvement and hardware stores in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island and elsewhere.

Kai Xu, 44, Xiang Chen, 39, Songhal Lee, 35, and Kang Zhang, 30, all from Queens and Zhi Bin An, 56,  of Brooklyn, were arraigned on a five-count indictment variously charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, access device fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

Metropolitan Avenue is the next stop on the MTA’s IBX (Interborough Express), a proposed light rail that would connect Queens to Brooklyn without going through Manhattan. The station will be located near the last stop of the existing M train line, which starts its run at 71st Street in Forest Hills, Queens and loops through Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

In recognition of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the New York Mets released a documentary on YouTube, “11 Days in September,” which details the pivotal role Shea Stadium and the organization played in the relief efforts in the days that followed the terrorist attacks.

Sep. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry

Long before Bayside became one of New York City’s most coveted residential neighborhoods for high-income families during the last century, the land in northeast Queens belonged to the Matinecock Native Americans until the Dutch West India Company acquired the area alongside the western edge of Little Neck Bay from the tribe in 1639 as part of a broader New Netherland settlement.