Man Found Dead With Laceration to His Face on Northern Boulevard

A Queens grand jury indicted a homeless man for shooting and killing his estranged wife and attempting to murder her daughter on a St. Albans street in June.

Audwin Caines, 62, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday on an eight-count indictment charging him with murder in the second degree, two counts of attempted murder and other related crimes. Caines is also charged with using a broken bottle to allegedly stab his spouse in the chest in July 2024.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Adam Daly

City Hall is urging Lyft to implement proof-based age checks for Citi Bike’s electric bicycles to prevent underage riders from using them.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Athena Dawson

State Sen. John Liu’s office and the Tzu Chi Foundation are hosting a free vision screening and eyeglasses giveaway this weekend. 

Aug. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller & Lloyd Mitchell

Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday charged that his independent opponent, Andrew Cuomo, sees the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized tenants as “political pawns,” after the former governor floated a proposal this week to significantly limit who can access those units.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Retro Fitness Forest Hills is getting ready to serve pickleball with a side of pizza at their Pickleball and Pizza event on Monday, Aug. 18, in honor of National Wellness Month.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry

Three men were killed in a horrific multi-vehicle chain-reaction collision in Astoria on Tuesday morning, according to authorities.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry

A man was shot on a residential street in Jamaica and police from the 113th Precinct are still looking for the gunman more than three weeks later.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Assembly Member Sam Berger announced $200,000 in capital funding for the NYPD’s 109th Precinct during the precinct’s National Night Out event at Bowne Playground last week.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry

Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a woman who allegedly assaulted an E train rider at the Woodhaven Boulevard subway station near Queens Center Mall during an unprovoked attack in the early morning of Wednesday, Aug 6.

Aug. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

The latest Siena College poll had more good news for Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the November general election — and some troubling early news for Gov. Kathy Hochul in her 2026 re-election campaign.