Apr. 24, 2024 By Anthony Medina The Ridgewood Older Adult Center has started a GoFundMe campaign to help maintain its neighborhood program, which provides seniors with one of the few places offering exclusive services in Ridgewood. Staffers at the long-time senior center say the cost of staying at the building, located on 59-14 70th Ave.,…
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Apr. 24, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills and Transit District 20 are looking for a man, who is built like an NFL player, for allegedly groping a 50-year-old woman as she waited for the subway near the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst on Monday morning.
Apr. 24, 2024 By Anthony Medina The St. Matthias Catholic Academy has launched a GoFundMe campaign seeking $1 million in donations in order to eliminate its debt and prevent it from closing this June. Since learning last week of the school’s impending closure due to financial challenges, parents and faculty at St. Matthias have banded…
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Apr. 24, 2024 By Dean Moses
A Queens teenager shot a neighbor’s dog on Monday while apparently playing with guns, police said.
Apr. 24, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Eight months after ordering most city agencies to dramatically cut their spending, Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday unveiled a $111.6 billion budget plan that restores some slashed funding — but still leaves areas such as the city’s public libraries on the chopping block. Hizzoner’s Fiscal Year 2025 executive…
Apr. 24, 2024 By Athena Dawson Representatives from the MTA and DOT gathered at the King Manor Museum in Jamaica last week to host an open house meeting focusing on the MTA’s Queens Bus Network Redesign proposal. The open house ran from 5-8:30 p.m. on Apr. 17. Throughout the night, a handful of residents trickled…
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Apr. 24, 2024 By Félix V. Matos Rodríguez For most CUNY students, attending college would be impossible without financial aid. But this year, the chaotic rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form threatens to derail the educational journeys of many current and prospective CUNY students. That’s why we’re doing all…
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Apr. 24, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Thirteen subway stations are about to get a healthy dose of spring cleaning and other improvements in the MTA’s latest “Re-NEW-vation” round, as announced Tuesday. The “Re-NEW-vation” program is the MTA’s concentrated effort at providing quick fixes at subway stations throughout the system — such as performing repairs,…
Apr. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry
The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) has launched a probe into the death of Jesus Alberto Nunez Reyes, 65, who was shot and killed during an encounter with NYPD officers in Corona on Saturday morning.
Apr. 23, 2024 By QNS News Team New York City Football Club (NYCFC) celebrated the recent approval of a new 25,000-seater stadium in Willets Point with a 2-0 victory over DC United at Citi Field on Saturday, Apr. 20. Goals from Santiago Rodriguez and Julián Fernández gave NYCFC a deserved victory that saw them leapfrog…
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