Aug. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach are looking for an alleged gunman who opened fire on a crowd in broad daylight near a playground and a senior living residence in Arverne on Tuesday, Aug. 12. Police say the shooting occurred at around 1:40 p.m. near Beach…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Bourbon Street celebrated its rooftop’s tenth anniversary by hosting a special party on Friday, Aug. 15, at 40-12 Bell Blvd. in Bayside. The celebration featured live music, complimentary drinks and tasty appetizers and raw beer. Several community members were on hand to take part in the celebration of…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Athena Dawson A Ridgewood trade school student won a significant scholarship for his future automotive career. Blerim Bibovic, a Lincoln Tech Queens campus student, won the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association (GNYADA) $5,000 Excellence in Automotive Education Scholarship. Bibovic, a 2024 graduate of Glover Cleveland High School, was presented…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Community Education Council 30 (CEC 30) has called on the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) to reinstate Ashley Rzonca after the union representative for Community School District 30 was dismissed from her position earlier in the year for what the CEC describes as “political” reasons. CEC 30, which…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Athena Dawson Dozens of Richmond Hill residents celebrated the grand opening of a new Family Enrichment Center (FEC) last month. Celebrants spent the day on on Saturday, July 26, enjoying a block party, located between 112 Street and Jamaica Avenue to 91st Avenue, where they enjoyed free food, bounced in…
Aug. 18, 2025 By Bill Parry An elderly Sunnyside woman was robbed by an unidentified intruder just inside her apartment building entrance on the morning of Tuesday, Aug. 12. Police say the stranger slipped into the vestibule of the residential building on 42nd Street and 43rd Avenue at around 11 a.m. and, once inside,…
Aug. 17, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Transit police are on the hunt for the young woman who attacked a male straphanger with pepper spray on board an L train in Queens earlier this month. The NYPD released images on Sunday of the suspect behind the painful attack that occurred on board a Manhattan-bound L…
Aug. 17, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann and Barbara Russo-Lennon NYC mayoral candidates reacted with anger and frustration following a mass shooting at a Brooklyn restaurant and club early on Sunday morning that left three people dead and multiple other victims injured. The tragic incident at Taste of the City, located near Prospect Park in…
Aug. 17, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon and Lloyd Mitchell Police in Queens are investigating a shooting at a neighborhood convenience store on Saturday night that left two people wounded. According to law enforcement sources, two men, ages 52 and 48, were shot multiple times inside the store located at 84-48 Manton St. in Briarwood…
Aug. 17, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Police in Queens are still looking for the hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a pedestrian near JFK Airport last week. According to law enforcement sources, officers from the 116th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a crash near 155th Street and South Conduit Avenue in Springfield Gardens…