Apr. 7, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Illegal vendors are a common sight throughout the city’s subway system, and not everyone is welcoming of them. During amNewYork’s recent visit to multiple Queens subway stations, vendors sold items such as soft tacos, churros, hot coffee, and even jewelry. Shoppers browsed the displays, and many purchased a…
Apr. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry Marking one year since the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario, members of the South Asian community joined his family and friends on Thursday, April 10, for a vigil at Frank McConnell Park in Richmond Hill, followed by a march demanding justice. Rozario, a Bangladeshi teen experiencing…
Apr. 7, 2025 By Shane O’Brien U.S. Rep. Grace Meng has called on the Department of Homeland Security to restore millions of dollars in funding for food pantries across Queens and New York City. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Meng contended that New York City food pantries are…
Apr. 6, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Dozens of 9/11 first responder advocates and New York’s US senators gathered on Sunday to demand the Trump Administration fully restore staffing cuts to a critical program that provides medical services for those who risked their lives at the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist…
Queens detectives are on the hunt for a brute who assaulted an 86-year-old woman last week because she asked to move so she could pass him in an apartment building hallway. According to police sources, the attack occurred inside the Ravenswood Houses located at 23-03 36th Ave. in Astoria at around 7 p.m. on…
Apr. 5, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell & Robert Pozarycki Tens of thousands took to the streets of Manhattan Saturday as part of a nationwide coordinated “Hands Off” protest against President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk following weeks of government chaos, attacks on democratic rights and economic turmoil. A huge crowd in Manhattan marched…
Apr. 5, 2025 Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society One of Woodhaven’s most well-known streets, Forest Parkway, celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. Beginning at a T-intersection on Jamaica Avenue, it extends just 2,500 feet before ending atop a hill in Forest Park at Oak Ridge, the former golf clubhouse and current home of the…
Apr. 5, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller City Comptroller and 2025 mayor’s race hopeful Brad Lander is pitching a plan to improve the Big Apple’s vast but crumbling public housing stock, as a group of New York City Housing Authority tenant leaders will on Saturday announce their support for his City Hall bid, amNewYork has…
Apr. 4, 2025 By Christy Hinko This summer, the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame will host its first-ever All-Star Summer Band Camp, offering high school students a unique opportunity to learn, perform and explore the region’s rich musical heritage. The week-long camp, which runs from July 28 through Aug. 1, is designed…
Apr. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry A Jamaica man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for stabbing his older brother to death in July 2022 and eluding law enforcement as a fugitive for months until he was tracked down in Florida and extradited back to Queens to face justice. Henry…