April 30, 2025 By Bill Parry Two career criminals from Brooklyn are charged with attempted murder for shooting an off-duty cop during an attempted carjacking in Long Island City on Sunday morning. Denzel Brown, 29, and Marvin Dankwah, 26, both from the Beach Haven Apartments in Bensonhurst, were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday… Read more »
April 29, 2025 By Bill Parry By the time Long Island City civic leaders discovered racist and antisemitic graffiti scrawled across the oval at Hunters Point South Park on Monday morning, neighborhood children were already playing on the turf. A park worker quickly removed the graffiti, and now police from the 108th Precinct are searching… Read more »
April 29, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted an Astoria man on charges of manslaughter, assault, and unauthorized practice of a profession for allegedly performing cosmetic surgery without a license in his 35th Street home. The 31-year-old victim, a mother of two young children from Whitestone, went into cardiac arrest and died… Read more »
April 27, 2025 By Dean Moses Two suspects in the shooting of an off-duty cop in Long Island City on Sunday morning are now in custody after leading police on a wild pursuit across the borough. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the 25-year-old off-duty NYPD officer parked his green BMW along 43rd Avenue… Read more »
April 25, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man turned himself in at the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills on Friday morning after a Queens grand jury indicted him for the murder of a motorcyclist from Astoria during a fatal road rage incident in Rego Park. Jordan Rosen, 42, of Ocean Harbor Drive in… Read more »
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Asian assault that occurred on board an R train in Long Island City on the night of Wednesday, April 16. A 29-year-old woman was riding a northbound R train approaching Queens Plaza subway station just before 7 p.m. when an… Read more »
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry A Corona man is being held without bail for allegedly stabbing a Rockland County man to death during an altercation over a stolen bicycle just after midnight on Monday, April 14. Nelson Torres, 33, of 37th Avenue, was initially taken into custody as a person of interest in the… Read more »
April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are searching for a serial burglar who targeted mail rooms in at least five Queens apartment buildings last month — including one Jackson Heights location he struck three times, authorities said. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for the lone burglar who broke into… Read more »
April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to 3 ½ to seven years in prison Tuesday in connection with five residential apartment mailbox thefts in Queens last year. Brandon Sestoso, 43, of McAlester Avenue in Hicksville, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court on March 24 to burglary in the third… Read more »
April 15, 2025 By Dean Moses Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 61-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis while armed with a knife on a public sidewalk in Astoria, her office announced Tuesday. Police brass said that they attempted to de-escalate the shooting that happened… Read more »