May. 2, 2025 By Czarinna Andres As New York City enters Bike Month, the Department of Transportation (DOT) is rolling out a slate of free events and safety programs in Queens and across the five boroughs, highlighting the city’s record ridership and major investments in cycling infrastructure. The NYC DOT’s Bike Month 2025 campaign…
May. 2, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are looking for two masked purse snatchers who targeted a 70-year-old woman on a residential street in Murray Hill and allegedly grabbed her pocketbook that contained thousands of dollars. The grand larceny occurred just after 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16,…
May. 2, 2025 By Jessica Militello With Mother’s Day just over a week away, there’s still plenty of time to plan something meaningful in Queens to celebrate the special women in your life. While brunch or dinner is always a classic choice, there are also unique and memorable ways to mark the occasion with…
May. 2, 2025 By Czarinna Andres The Queens Economic Development Corporation (QEDC) and Queens Tourism Council announced this week that Queens Taste 2025, the borough’s signature culinary and networking celebration, will take place on Tuesday, May 13, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park. Now…
May. 2, 2025 By Athena Dawson Dozens gathered at NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens on Thursday, May 1, to celebrate the renaming of the hospital’s main pavilion in honor of the late Claire Shulman, the trailblazing former Queens Borough President who began her public service career as a nurse at the same hospital in the…
May. 1, 2025 By Colum Motherway As National Nurses Week approaches, from May 6 through May 12, the dedicated nursing team at Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Forest Hills Hospital is taking time to reflect on the meaning of their work and the powerful role they play in the lives of their patients and the…
May. 1, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Two top City Hall officials said on Thursday that Mayor Eric Adams’ newly released executive budget does not put additional funds into reserves ahead of President Trump’s tariffs and broad funding cuts because they do not anticipate that it would spark a “doomsday scenario” for the city’s economy. First Deputy…
May. 1, 2025 By Max Parrott Lawyers of the world, unite! Hundreds of attorneys converged upon Foley Square on National Law Day in what they described as a non-partisan demonstration against President Trump’s attacks against the independence of the legal industry and judiciary. The organizers of the May 1 protest, sponsored by the New…
May. 1, 2025 By QNS News Team A senior from Jamaica has earned top honors at a prestigious scientific conference for his work in plant genome research. Solomon Theo Scheiner, a Bioinformatics and Computational Biology major at SUNY Old Westbury, won first prize for his oral presentation at the 2025 annual meeting of the Northeast…
May. 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday in Queens Supreme Court after pleading guilty to kidnapping, robbery, and promoting prostitution for three separate incidents. Gil Iphael, 25, of Copiague Street in Valley Stream, lured his victims to Queens locations for sex with the…