March 29, 2023 By Bill Parry As the number of street vendors using Corona Plaza to earn a living has exploded since the neighborhood was devastated during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, so too has the trash problem, which has grown exponentially. On March 28, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards joined city agencies… Read more »
March 29, 2023 By Bill Parry Several firefighters were injured while battling a three-alarm fire in a one-story commercial building in Astoria on Wednesday morning, according to the FDNY. One firefighter was seriously injured and another five firefighters suffered minor injuries battling the fire that tore through the Lion-Aire warehouse at 34-38 31st St., beneath… Read more »
March 28, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn woman was criminally charged with murder in the killing of a Dutch Kills resident at the Queensbridge Houses in 2021, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on March 28. Tandika Wright, 35, of Mother Gaston Boulevard in Ocean Hill, was arraigned on March 26 before Queens Criminal… Read more »
March 28, 2023 By Bill Parry An Astoria businessman is facing two decades in prison after admitting he targeted the Bengali community of Queens in a real estate scam that bilked them out of nearly a million dollars over three years. Rashidun Bokhari, 57, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday to wire fraud from… Read more »
March 27, 2023 By Bill Parry Formerly homeless, best-selling author Frank McKinney visited with the residents of Pam’s Place women’s shelter in Dutch Kills Thursday, March 23. McKinney is on a 25-city tour to support his new book “Adversitology,” which chronicles his recent battle with Leukemia as well as his experience in overcoming homelessness. The… Read more »
March 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Long Island City-based tech startup Datalogz announced it raised $2.3 million in seed funding after successful pilots with Fortune 500 companies. Datalogz is a Business Intelligence Ops platform that aims to end analytics sprawl. Companies today have an ever-growing pile of reports on data and while the abundance provides… Read more »
March 22, 2023 By Bill Parry Through the New York Entertainment Workforce Diversity Grant Program, LaGuardia Community College is receiving a $205,000 grant to recruit, hire, promote, develop, and train a diverse and inclusive workforce for New York’s motion picture and television industry. With its campus in Long Island City, LaGuardia Community College is just a… Read more »
Tuesday, March 21 By Bill Parry New York’s hometown airline has a disgruntled faction among its hometown workforce. Over 100 JetBlue flight attendants and members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 579 rallied outside the air carrier’s Long Island City corporate headquarters Monday. During an informational picket, flight attendants called on JetBlue to provide… Read more »
March 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Woodside man and his girlfriend were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on March 19 in connection with the vicious beating of a man in Sunnyside last week that left the victim critically injured and fighting for his life. Arturo Cuevas, 30, of 48th Street, and his live-in girlfriend… Read more »
March 10, 2023 By Bill Parry A car service driver was robbed at knifepoint near the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City last week, and police from the 108th Precinct are looking for four men who remain at large. In the early morning of Friday, March 3, the 41-year-old Lyt driver picked up two men… Read more »