Oct. 23, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The MTA has launched a new ad campaign highlighting the 50,000 people that keep New Yorkers moving — a bid to humanize the transit workforce amid a spate of assaults against them. “I Move NY” will feature on physical and digital signage on city buses and subway stations…
Oct. 23, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Earlier this month, the owner of Pardon My Sub on Bell Boulevard in Bayside opened Tyger’s Bowl and Kimbap, a new Korean fast-casual eatery right next door. Chris Kim has been in the food business for almost a decade now, but this is the first time he’s been…
Oct. 23, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Permits have been filed for the construction of a 5-story mixed-use building at 31-15 Linden Pl. in Flushing. The proposed development, located between 31st Road and 32nd Avenue, would be 45 feet tall and yield 11,690 square feet. A majority of the space will be dedicated to residential…
Oct. 23, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The number of people traveling in and out of New York City by car is higher than ever before, even as mass transit ridership continues to lag behind levels seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report on MTA finances from State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli revealed. Crossings on…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Dean Moses The raids continue on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue a week after City Hall declared war on the prostitution and other illegal businesses that have long lined the thoroughfare. Late Monday night, cops shuttered an alleged brothel located at 90-25 Roosevelt Ave. in Corona as part of the “Operation Restore…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a 15-year-old boy on charges of murder, criminal possession of a weapon, and other related crimes for allegedly shooting and killing a motorist in St. Albans last month. The alleged gang member was arraigned Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court on a five-count indictment…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall and Ramy Mahmoud Wyckoff Heights Medical Center honored several outstanding medical workers and raised funds for a new Cardiac Rehabilitation Center during the hospital’s 66th annual gala held at Russo’s on the Bay in Queens on Friday, Oct. 18. Honorees at the gala included Dr. Parvez A. Mir,…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are still looking for two gunmen more than three weeks after a drive-by shooting in Douglaston left two men wounded. The incident went down on the night of Saturday, Oct. 5, with the two victims sitting in a car at the…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall New York City, in partnership with L+M Development Partners, Triangle Equities and The Bluestone Organization, has launched a housing lottery for 116 units in a mixed-use building located at 3-51 Beach 35th St. in Far Rockaway. Known as Beach Green Dunes III, the building has a total of…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson The Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts (FCCA), also known as Flushing Town Hall, celebrated its 45th anniversary at its Sapphire Gala fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 15. The event, held at the Flushing Town Hall Theatre, celebrated the arts institution’s ongoing commitment to arts equity and supporting…