Jun. 13, 2024 By QNS News Team The Queens-based non-profit Keep Fighting organization announced a charity event for Sunday, June 16, aimed at supporting young athletes who dream of becoming national junior Olympic champions. The event will be held at the Eastern Queens Boxing Club, 217-07 Hempstead Avenue in Queens Village, from 2 to 7 p.m….
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Episcopal Health Services welcomes new leaders to enhance health outcomes in Far Rockaway
Jun. 13, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Episcopal Health Services (EHS) recently announced the addition of two key executives to its leadership team, strengthening its commitment to improving healthcare delivery and quality for the Rockaway Peninsula and surrounding communities. Dr. Jameela Yussuf, appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, brings nearly two decades of…
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Queens Jazz Orchestra to honor late jazz icon Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath at Flushing Town Hall
Jun. 13, 2024 By Athena Dawson The Queens Jazz Orchestra will host a tribute concert for the late NEA Jazz Master Albert “Tootie” Heath on Friday, June 28, at Flushing Town Hall. The event, set to begin at 8 p.m., celebrates Heath, who passed away in April at the age of 89. Heath was the…
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‘Ghost car’ driver arrested in East Elmhurst after traffic stop reveals weapons, threatening note: NYPD
Jun. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst discovered an arsenal of weapons in a ghost car they pulled over on Ditmars Boulevard and 86th Street in East Elmhurst early Wednesday morning.
Congestion Pricing: Comptroller Lander assembling potential plaintiffs for suit to restart paused Manhattan toll
Jun. 12, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld City Comptroller Brad Lander said Wednesday that he is assembling a coalition of legal minds and impacted parties to potentially sue New York state over Gov. Kathy Hochul’s eleventh-hour decision to indefinitely pause congestion pricing. Because the governor framed her decision as a “temporary pause,” and the original…
Cyclist fatally struck by van driver along 41st Avenue in Flushing Monday morning: NYPD
Jun. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry
A 61-year-old Flushing woman was struck and killed by a van driver on Monday morning while she was cycling on 41st Avenue.
Congressman Suozzi joins delegation to Normandy in commemoration of 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Jun. 12, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Congressman Tom Suozzi was part of a bipartisan congressional delegation that joined President Joe Biden in Normandy, France, earlier last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The eastern Queens representative, who also represents Nassau County, was among thousands around the world who commemorated the anniversary of the…
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AOC hosts discussion on antisemitism and its threat to democracy
Jun. 12, 2024 By Emily Swanson U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who represents parts of Queens and the South Bronx, hosted a June 10 livestreamed conversation on antisemitism and its undermining effects on American democracy. According to Ocasio-Cortez, while Jewish people are the target of religious and racial prejudice, they are also the subject of a…
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Queens murder-suicide: Cops believe business failure and family argument led man to kill brother, then himself
Jun. 12, 2024 By Dean Moses
Arguments over a failed business venture allegedly led a Queens man to shoot his mother and brother, killing his sibling, before taking his own life last week, police officials said.
Henry ‘Hank’ Krumholz, stalwart pioneer of Queens LGBTQ Pride, dies at 73
Jun. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry
Henry “Hank” Krumholz, a pioneering gay rights activist in Queens, passed away on Sunday in his Flushing apartment at the age of 73.