Aug. 5, 2024 By Athena Dawson All was good and pleasant—or “irie” as the Jamaicans say—at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens on Thursday, Aug. 1. Dozens of residents dressed in green, black and gold—the colors of the Jamaican flag—gathered in the Helen Marshall Cultural Center to celebrate Jamaica’s Emancipation Day and Jamaican Independence…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil & Dean Moses The 32nd annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, marking the Year of the Dragon, returned to Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park this weekend. As the largest multicultural festival in New York State and one of the largest Dragon Boat festivals in the…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses An off-duty New York City Parks Department employee was arrested in Queens over the weekend for allegedly endangering himself and the public with his motorcycle, authorities said. Police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Hebron Joseph, who was apprehended around 3:07 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3 at Murdock Avenue and…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters battled a raging five-alarm fire in Queens as temperatures soared in the New York City area on Saturday afternoon. The fire erupted just after 4:05 p.m. on Aug. 3, when an EMS supervisor spotted heavy smoke in the vicinity of 188-21 Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens Village.…
Aug. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses Police are searching for two suspects after a night out on the town in Queens ended with five people stabbed. Authorities said the bloody brawl unfolded just before 12 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3 near the corner of 100th Street and 37th Avenue in Corona, where two groups…
Aug. 3, 2024 By the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society Emanuel United Church of Christ sits at the corner of 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, giving it the unique distinction of being either the first or last thing people see when entering or leaving Woodhaven. Emanuel began in various locations in Manhattan in a…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina The New York City Department of Transportation has announced temporary single-lane closures for the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge over English Kills starting on Monday, Aug. 5. The DOT Division of Bridges is expected to conduct routine maintenance of the Brooklyn-Queens bridge from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. has called the attack on an MTA Q53 bus rider in Woodhaven last month a senseless act of violence and is urging commuters to practice caution on public transportation. Police say a 37-year-old man riding the Q53 bus on Sunday, July 7 suffered…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A St. Albans man was arrested by the Port Authority Police Department after a loaded handgun was detected in his backpack at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Terminal C in LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday, July 31. Anthony Richard Morgan, 31, was checking in for a flight…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Ethan Marshall National Grid, a multinational company that supplies natural gas to New York, announced on Thursday, Aug. 1, that Sally Librera will be the new president of its New York business starting in September. Librera will also join National Grid’s Group Executive Committee, where she will work to help…