Truck Driver is Dead After Plowing Into Concrete Piller on Grand Avenue in Maspeth

Dec. 18, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

The Astoria Car Club and the NYPD Community Affairs Queens Outreach Division joined forces on Sunday, Dec. 8, to kick off the holiday season with their 10th annual Toy Run.

A 65-year-old man was killed during a collision of two trucks on the Long Island Expressway in Bayside on Wednesday morning.

The victim was behind the wheel of a Ford F-550 flatbed truck when it became disabled just after 5 a.m., and he pulled over on the westbound shoulder near Exit 27 to the Clearview Expressway.

Dec. 18, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

The MTA Board approved on Wednesday a budget plan for 2025 that includes public transportation fare hikes and toll increases slated to take effect next summer.

Dec. 18, 2024 By Emily Swanson

Reona Alam from Castle Hill, a current freshman at Hunter College, doesn’t have a typical college student’s part-time job. Instead of babysitting or working retail, she is an intern with Council Member Shekar Krishnan’s office in Queens, getting a front-row seat to local politics in action. 

Dec. 18, 2024 By Athena Dawson

In the heart of Southeast Queens, one creative entrepreneur is proving that big empowerment can come in small packages.

Dec. 18, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Popular Astoria wine bar and café Tootles & French has been nominated for USA Today’s Best New Restaurant for 2025.

A Whitestone mobster was sentenced on Dec. 13 to two-and-a-half years in federal prison for racketeering in connection with operating an illegal gambling business in Lynbrook, Long Island.

Carmelo Polito, 64, a former acting captain and soldier in the Genovese organized crime family, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on April 5 to operating a gambling parlor out of the Gran Caffé and attempting to extort an individual who owed him money stemming from a separate online sports betting business.

The NYPD has released surveillance images of two alleged gunmen who allegedly shot a Brooklyn man to death in Far Rockaway last month.

The murder occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, Nov. 24, in the rear of a store at 1025 Beach 20th St. Milton Headley, 35, of President Street in Red Hook, was approached by two unidentified men at just after 3 a.m. Both perpetrators pulled our firearms and began shooting, striking Headley multiple times in his chest, police said. The gunmen ran off in an unknown direction.

Dec. 18, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

New York City has launched a housing lottery for 72 units at AURA, a 37-story mixed-use building in Long Island City.

Dec. 18, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Kew Gardens Hills locals are now running on Dunkin’.