March 12, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for three burglars who broke into a nail salon, a bodega, and another shop on the same Queens Boulevard block in Sunnyside just moments apart during the early morning of Sunday, March 2. The perpetrators broke through the… Read more »
March 7, 2025 By Bill Parry Cops are looking for a cyclist who allegedly assaulted a pedestrian on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights late last month. The 28-year-old man was walking past 90-01 Roosevelt Avenue at around 5:06 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, when he engaged in a dispute with the suspect, a man riding… Read more »
March 7, 2025 By Bill Parry A 65-year-old man was killed when an early morning house fire gutted his home in the Sunnyside Gardens historic district on Friday. The FDNY received a call just before 3 a.m. of a blaze at 39-11 46th St. and dispatched 12 units with 60 firefighters and EMS personnel that… Read more »
March 4, 2025 By Bill Parry Some of the thousands of spectators lining Skillman Avenue for the St. Pat’s for All parade on Sunday might recognize a burglary suspect who committed mail theft in one of the apartment buildings on the border between Woodside and Sunnyside on three occasions last month. Police from the 108th… Read more »
March 3, 2025 By Bill Parry With a renewed sense of purpose in her fight against the mass firings of federal employees, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng invited Luke Graziani, the Woodside Army vet who was terminated from his job at a Bronx Veterans hospital, to be her guest at President Donald Trump’s address to a… Read more »
March 3, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 115th Precinct and Transit District 20 are looking for two muggers who slashed a 28-year-old 7 train rider who refused to hand over his money on Thursday morning. The victim was standing on the Manhattan-bound platform of the 90th Street-Elmhurst Avenue subway station at 5:06 a.m…. Read more »
Feb. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry An off-duty FDNY firefighter from Oakland Gardens is accused of driving three times over the legal speed limit while inebriated and high on cocaine and marijuana when he caused a pre-dawn collision that killed a Brooklyn man in East Elmhurst early Wednesday morning. Michael Pena, 28, of 220th Street,… Read more »
Feb. 27, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for a purse snatcher who allegedly targeted a young woman on a Manhattan-bound 7 train on the night of Friday, Feb. 21. The 17-year-old victim was sitting down as her train approached the Queensboro… Read more »
Feb. 27, 2025 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn man was killed in a fatal crash on Northern Boulevard in East Elmhurst early Wednesday morning, and an off-duty FDNY firefighter was arrested for causing the collision. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision at the… Read more »
Feb. 25, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria gunman was sentenced Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court to 20 years in prison for firing the stray bullet that killed an innocent bystander from Westchester who was working at the Astoria Houses in the spring of 2020. Jerald Bethea, 24, of 27th Avenue, pleaded guilty last month… Read more »