April 29, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted an Astoria man on charges of manslaughter, assault, and unauthorized practice of a profession for allegedly performing cosmetic surgery without a license in his 35th Street home. The 31-year-old victim, a mother of two young children from Whitestone, went into cardiac arrest and died… Read more »
April 25, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man turned himself in at the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills on Friday morning after a Queens grand jury indicted him for the murder of a motorcyclist from Astoria during a fatal road rage incident in Rego Park. Jordan Rosen, 42, of Ocean Harbor Drive in… Read more »
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Asian assault that occurred on board an R train in Long Island City on the night of Wednesday, April 16. A 29-year-old woman was riding a northbound R train approaching Queens Plaza subway station just before 7 p.m. when an… Read more »
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A Corona man is being held without bail for allegedly stabbing a Rockland County man to death during an altercation over a stolen bicycle just after midnight on Monday, April 14. Nelson Torres, 33, of 37th Avenue, was initially taken into custody as a person of interest in the… Read more »
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A non-verbal autistic boy who was reported missing from a Jackson Heights eatery just before noon on Friday was found by a good Samaritan on Manhattan’s Upper East Side a few hours later. Seven-year-old Ruwaid Karim slipped out of Dera Restaurant, at 72-09 Broadway, when his mother went to… Read more »
April 21, 2025 By Bill Parry A group of concerned Astoria residents held a vigil on Athens Square on Wednesday evening in memory of their neighbor, who was gunned down by police on Tuesday morning after they repeatedly ordered him to drop a knife he was holding. The police fired tasers at the 61-year-old man… Read more »
April 18, 2025 By Bill Parry A 31-year-old Whitestone mother of two has died weeks after undergoing a cosmetic procedure at an illegal medical practice in Astoria, authorities said. María Paz Peñaloza visited the unlicensed clinic inside a house at 20-59 35th St. around 1 p.m. on Friday, March 28, to have a buttock implant… Read more »
April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are searching for a serial burglar who targeted mail rooms in at least five Queens apartment buildings last month — including one Jackson Heights location he struck three times, authorities said. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for the lone burglar who broke into… Read more »
April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to 3 ½ to seven years in prison Tuesday in connection with five residential apartment mailbox thefts in Queens last year. Brandon Sestoso, 43, of McAlester Avenue in Hicksville, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court on March 24 to burglary in the third… Read more »
April 15, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted nine individuals in connection with the sale and possession of controlled substances—including fentanyl, cocaine, and crack—following a 17-month investigation into a drug-dealing crew operating on 95th Street in Jackson Heights, District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday. Undercover officers made 40 purchases during the… Read more »