Feb. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing man is criminally charged with attempted arson and other crimes for trying to torch an auto repair shop in Long Island City late last month. Ping Huang, 37, of Blossom Avenue, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Feb. 6 after he was seen trying to start… Read more »
Feb 14, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD has identified a suspect in the fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a Jackson Heights woman on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 1. Pursuant to an ongoing investigation, detectives have determined that Jackson Lima-Arteaga, 33, of Bond Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey was behind the wheel of a… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »