Sep. 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Joann Ariola has defended her decision to support a vote overriding Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of legislation decriminalizing illegal street vending amid fierce criticism from City Hall, describing her vote as a “protest” against what she described as previous mayoral inaction on the issue. Ariola had…
Sep. 15, 2025 By Athena Dawson A new state-of-the-art YMCA is coming to downtown Flushing. Council Member Sandra Ung announced on Friday, Sept. 12, that she’s secured just over $1 million in city funding to help bring a long-awaited new YMCA to Flushing. Ung was joined by YMCA Leadership, members of the Flushing YMCA…
Sep. 14, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon The four leading candidates in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race spent Sunday greeting constituents, visiting businesses and churches, and discussing local issues that are important to New Yorkers. Adams goes block by block in the outer boroughs Mayor Eric Adams visited with small business owners, voters, and community…
Sep. 14, 2025 By Dean Moses A Long Island man accused of fatally striking a teenage girl in Queens with his vehicle on Saturday morning faces murder charges for the alcohol-fueled hit-and-run, police reported. According to police sources, 38-year-old Edwin Cruz Gomez of Uniondale was not only intoxicated behind the wheel at the time…
Sep. 14, 2025 By Dean Moses Queens detectives have charged the son of a senior found stabbed to death in his home Saturday night in what police are calling a domestic killing. According to police sources, 76-year-old John Muraco was stabbed to death inside his home located on 159th Avenue and 102nd Street in…
Sep. 13, 2025 By Adrienne Farr Queens has over 295,000 mapped trees – more than any other borough – making it one of the most magical places in the fall to see leaves transform into majestic shades of orange and yellow. There’s no better way to celebrate the season than by getting outside with…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man and his accomplice on weapons and drugs charges for trafficking illegal guns from Georgia into southeast Queens. Teddy Gaston, 39, of Linden Boulevard, and Jezerel Huston, 41, of Macon, Georgia, were arraigned Sept. 9 in Queens Supreme Court on a…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Centric, a 12-story-tall condominium with 131 luxury units at 58-01 Queens Blvd. in Woodside, has officially topped off, becoming the largest condominium in Sunnyside East. The topping off comes just months after a record-breaking $1.512 million sale was made for a penthouse unit. The sale marked the highest…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Diocese of Brooklyn has announced that the Church of the Transfiguration in Maspeth will remain open on a “limited basis” following reports that the church was set to be closed down earlier in the summer. The church, located at 64-25 Perry Ave., has stood as a historic…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani will apologize for a 2020 social media post in which he called the NYPD “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety,” his campaign confirmed to amNewYork. Mamdani’s apparent shift on his past comments — he first revealed this in a…