Aug. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses Police are searching for two suspects after a night out on the town in Queens ended with five people stabbed. Authorities said the bloody brawl unfolded just before 12 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3 near the corner of 100th Street and 37th Avenue in Corona, where two groups…
Aug. 3, 2024 By the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society Emanuel United Church of Christ sits at the corner of 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard, giving it the unique distinction of being either the first or last thing people see when entering or leaving Woodhaven. Emanuel began in various locations in Manhattan in a…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina The New York City Department of Transportation has announced temporary single-lane closures for the Metropolitan Avenue Bridge over English Kills starting on Monday, Aug. 5. The DOT Division of Bridges is expected to conduct routine maintenance of the Brooklyn-Queens bridge from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina Senator Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. has called the attack on an MTA Q53 bus rider in Woodhaven last month a senseless act of violence and is urging commuters to practice caution on public transportation. Police say a 37-year-old man riding the Q53 bus on Sunday, July 7 suffered…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A St. Albans man was arrested by the Port Authority Police Department after a loaded handgun was detected in his backpack at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at Terminal C in LaGuardia Airport on Wednesday, July 31. Anthony Richard Morgan, 31, was checking in for a flight…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Ethan Marshall National Grid, a multinational company that supplies natural gas to New York, announced on Thursday, Aug. 1, that Sally Librera will be the new president of its New York business starting in September. Librera will also join National Grid’s Group Executive Committee, where she will work to help…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The number of reported rapes spiked in southern Queens during the 28-day period from July 1-28, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. Meanwhile, felony assaults jumped in northern Queens over the same respective period. Rapes in southern Queens…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD is looking for six members of a retail theft crew that has targeted nine sportswear and clothes shops in three boroughs during a three-month-long crime spree, with one of their biggest scores carried out in a sporting goods store inside the Queens Center Mall in late…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Anthony Medina A targeted operation launched in May to shut down illegal smoke shops has led to the shuttering of over 195 locations in Queens and hundreds more throughout the five boroughs, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced at a press conference in the Bronx Wednesday. The Mayor’s announcement…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Athena Dawson The NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced Wednesday, July 31, that they have started their planned $51.8 million infrastructure project in Rosedale. The project, which the DDC is managing, will address reoccurring…