Oct. 28, 2021 By Allie Griffin A number of renewable energy projects will be soon be coming online — negating the need for NRG’s proposed peaker plant that the state rejected earlier this week, according to several Queens leaders. Local politicians said the state has no need for NRG’s proposal, which sought to overhaul the… Read more »
Oct. 28, 2021 By Allie Griffin Police are looking for a senior who got handsy with a stranger onboard a subway train in Long Island City Tuesday. The suspect, believed to be in his 70s, allegedly grabbed the butt of a 49-year-old man on board a northbound E train near the Court Square-23rd Station at… Read more »
Oct. 28, 2021 By Allie Griffin Queens Community Board 6 will host a public hearing next Wednesday on a developer’s plan to build a mixed-use tower where a popular diner and synagogue in Rego Park are located. Development company RJ Capital Holdings plans to demolish a number of Queens Boulevard buildings including Tower Diner and… Read more »
Oct. 27, 2021 By Allie Griffin The state has rejected a controversial proposal put forward by a Houston-based energy company to build a natural gas power plant in Astoria. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation denied permits sought by NRG Energy to revamp its 50-year-old Astoria Generating Station on 20th Avenue by replacing… Read more »
Oct. 26, 2021 By Allie Griffin A beloved music teacher at an Astoria Catholic school was fired from his teaching position earlier this month after the diocese learned he married his longtime boyfriend. Matthew LaBanca was let go from both his teaching position at St. Joseph Catholic Academy and his position as the music director… Read more »
Oct. 25, 2021 By Allie Griffin A mixed-income housing lottery has opened for 270 units in a new development on the Long Island City waterfront. The city is accepting applications for units in the mixed-use, two-tower development known as Gotham Point. The 270 apartments up for grabs are located in one of the two waterfront… Read more »
Oct. 25, 2021 By Allie Griffin Queens leaders and NYC Parks Department officials celebrated the opening of a new playground and adult exercise station in Glen Oaks Oval in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday. The officials marked the completion of the $1.5 million upgrades to the park during the ceremony. The upgrades were finished in April,… Read more »
Oct. 22, 2021 By Allie Griffin An Astoria assembly member has joined a hunger strike taking place outside City Hall in support of taxi drivers fighting for debt relief. Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani and more than a dozen yellow cab drivers are on day three of a hunger strike they started Wednesday to demand the… Read more »
Oct. 22, 2021 By Allie Griffin A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man on hate crime charges for allegedly attacking Muslim New Yorkers in three separate incidents over the summer. Naved Durrni, 30, was indicted and arraigned Friday on robbery, assault as a hate crime and other charges in Queens Supreme Court. Durrni, of… Read more »
Oct. 22, 2021 By Allie Griffin A sports field in College Point will get a $4.5 million facelift — including the conversion of a baseball field into a soccer field — via council funding secured by Council Member Paul Vallone. The money will fund the conversion of a portion of College Point Fields baseball diamond… Read more »