Apr. 4, 2024 By Athena Dawson April is Earth Month and New Yorkers are taking to the streets to clean up their communities. The Sanitation Foundation, the official non-profit partner of New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), has launched their NYC Big Spring Clean event throughout the month of April. The foundation will connect…
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Apr. 4, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
May the odds be ever on your favor.
Apr. 4, 2024 QNS News Team The New York Mets have announced “A Celebration of Queens Culture,” a groundbreaking event set for Aug. 13 and 14 at Citi Field. This initiative marks a departure from the team’s traditional approach to heritage celebrations, offering a multi-day experience that aims to inclusively honor the borough’s diversity. Historically,…
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Apr. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Bellerose man is criminally charged with grand larceny and other crimes for depositing stolen and bogus checks totaling more than $40,000 into his bank account.
Apr. 3, 2024 By Athena Dawson A local college student is hosting a vegetable seed distribution event on Saturday, April 20 at the Springfield Park picnic area, located on 146-2 Springfield Blvd., from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Linda Derry, 19, is a Springfield Gardens resident and self-proclaimed environmentalist. Her event, sponsored by Volunteers for…
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Apr. 3, 2024 By Dean Moses
A Queens bartender’s boyfriend allegedly stabbed her to death at her workplace over the weekend, then turned the knife on herself, because she planned on returning to her native Ireland, police reported Wednesday.
Apr. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry
The NYPD is searching for four men in a gray Nissan Sentra with New Jersey plates who snatched a 33-year-old man off a Jackson Heights street in broad daylight on Monday morning and proceeded to beat and rob him before he escaped from the vehicle nearly eight miles away in Jamaica.
Apr. 3, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Sitting side by side in two hospital beds pushed together, Philip Baldi and Donna Johnson exchanged vows and rings at LIJ Forest Hills Hospital as their final wish. The couple has been together for over 40 years, but never legally tied the knot despite their commitment. But after lengthy…
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Apr. 3, 2024 By Emily Davenport After two recent police surges and help from the National Guard, transit crime significantly decreased in New York City, the NYPD reported Wednesday. The 23.5% downturn in transit crime during March actually led to a first-quarter decrease in 2024, police sources said. The NYPD also reported an across-the-board…
Apr. 3, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan The Queens World Film Festival is returning for its 13th year this month with a roster of 152 independent films representing 19 nations and dozens of filmmakers from the five boroughs. Over the course of 11 days, the films will be screened together in unique thematic blocs that serve…
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