Feb. 13, 2024 By Bill Parry The city has launched a search for an operator for the long-term outdoor vendor concession area in Corona Plaza. The Department of Transportation released a Request for Proposals (RFP) on Monday seeking an entity to manage the 15,000 square-foot plaza to ensure a vibrant, clean and safe concession area… Read more »
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Jackson Heights man killed in hit-and-run crash on the Whitestone Expressway: NYPD
Feb. 13, 2024 By Bill Parry A Jackson Heights man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the Whitestone Expressway in College Point on Saturday morning, police said. Officers from the 109th Precinct in Flushing responded to a 911 call of a multi-vehicle collision near Linden Place where they found 43-year-old David Berney unconscious and… Read more »
DA Katz continues crackdown on illegal motorbikes, takes another 133 scooters, mopeds off the streets of Woodside, Long Island City
Feb. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz provided an update Friday on her ongoing crackdown with the NYPD on illegal scooters and mopeds in western Queens. Detectives from the DA’s office working with officers from the NYPD’s 108th Precinct in Long Island City and the 114th Precinct in Astoria searched 18… Read more »
More than 175 victims of massive five-alarm fire in Sunnyside retain Manhattan-based law firm to represent them
Feb. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry More than 175 tenants who were displaced from their Sunnyside apartment building following a massive five-alarm fire just days before Christmas are being represented by attorneys from the law firm of McLaughlin & Stern LLP. The Manhattan-based law firm, established in 1898, will represent the more than 175 victims… Read more »
Woman subjected to act of public lewdness by creep aboard 7 train in Corona: NYPD
Feb. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry A 7-train rider was accosted by a stranger in broad daylight on Monday and police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights and Transit District 20 are looking for the suspect who subjected her to “public lewdness.” The 46-year-old woman was seated aboard a Flushing-bound train at around 2:45… Read more »
Gospel music hall of famer Bishop Hezekiah Walker to headline benefit concert for NYC Kids RISE at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in LIC
Feb. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry Multi-Grammy-award winner Bishop Hezekiah Walker and the Love Fellowship Tabernacle Choir will headline the Concert for College 2024 at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night to raise funds for the NYC Scholarship Accounts of students at nine Queens elementary schools through the Long Island City-based NYC Kids… Read more »
Astoria man, Chinese national, busted by FBI for a 2023 shooting and robbery at Flushing gambling joint: Feds
Feb. 5, 2024 By Bill Parry FBI agents arrested an Astoria man and a Chinese national on Thursday, Feb. 1, for engaging in a violent armed robbery at an illegal Flushing gambling parlor in July that left one man shot in the abdomen, according to federal prosecutors. Jamel Berry of Astoria and Zhong Wang of… Read more »
Queens DA in collaboration with NYPD confiscates 40 illegal scooters in western Queens
Feb. 5, 2024 By Bill Parry While the use of scooters and mopeds have proliferated in recent years, so too has their use as a tool for criminals in armed robberies and drive-by shootings—including a bloody rampage in July that left an 86-year-old grandfather dead in Richmond Hill, authorities say. On Monday, Queens District Attorney… Read more »
Queensbridge Houses resident busted for allegedly gunning down ex-con in Long Island City in November: NYPD
Feb. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queensbridge Houses man was arrested on Monday and booked at the 114th Precinct in Astoria in connection to a fatal shooting of an ex-con on the night of Monday, Nov. 20. Yasser Saleh, 36, of 12th Street, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment… Read more »
Astoria man kidnapped, tortured by 3 New Jersey men in 2022 extortion attempt: Feds
Feb. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry Three New Jersey men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for kidnapping and viciously torturing an Astoria man in 2022—in an attempt to extort $150,000 in cash. Jarrett Bruce, 40, of Englewood, N.J. was arrested on Thursday, one day after Aasim Boone, 41, also of Englewood, was… Read more »