Jan. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry No criminality is suspected in the death of a three-month-old infant girl who was found by her mother unconscious and unresponsive inside a migrant shelter in Long Island City on Sunday afternoon. Police from the NYPD 114th Precinct in Astoria and EMS responded to a 911 call of an… Read more »
Jan. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry A Jackson Heights man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a child relative beginning when the girl was 5 years old. Edgar Chalco, 42, of 92nd Street, was convicted by a jury in Queens Supreme Court last month of sexual conduct against a… Read more »
Jan. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry An R train rider was stabbed during an unprovoked assault near the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City last week. Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City and Transit District 20 are looking for an unidentified man who approached the 36-year-old victim as he was… Read more »
Jan. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry Mount Sinai Health System announced on Tuesday the opening of Mount Sinai Queens-Crescent Street in Astoria, a new outpatient practice offering multispecialty care in a new state-of-the-art facility. Located across the street from Mount Sinai Queens at 30-14 Crescent St., the new location will enhance health care accessibility for… Read more »
Jan. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry A 43-year-old man was sucker punched in the face by a stranger during a random attack inside the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue transit hub earlier this month, according to the NYPD. Police from the NYPD 110th Precinct in Elmhurst reported that the victim was inside the subway station at 74th… Read more »
Jan. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are on the lookout for a moped-riding chain snatcher who has been targeting young women in broad daylight since late December. The first incident took place on the morning of Friday, Dec. 8, when a 15-year-old girl was in the… Read more »
Jan. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry Sunnyside attorney and community leader Johanna Carmona formally launched her campaign to represent the 37th Assembly District in western Queens and unseat embattled Assembly Member Juan Ardila in the June Democratic primary. Carmona, a lifelong Sunnyside resident, and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, has worked in the Special Victims… Read more »
Jan. 15, 2024, By Bill Parry A Maspeth man was nabbed Friday for a fatal stabbing that took place in Long Island City nearly four years ago after coming into contact with cops for smoking at a Brooklyn subway station. Luis Hernandez, 36, of 56th Street in Maspeth was taken into custody by police from… Read more »
Jan. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills are looking for a disheveled vandal who allegedly had the audacity to tag the stationhouse on Austin Street with graffiti last week. The suspect allegedly approached the front wall of the 112th Precinct at around 2:40 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11… Read more »
Jan. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry Sunnyside community leader Ty Sullivan and a core group of friends are organizing a fundraiser for their 450+ neighbors who were displaced by a raging five-alarm fire just days before Christmas. The group is collaborating with Sunnyside Community Services (SCS) to host the Fire Relief Fundraiser on Friday, Jan…. Read more »