Feb. 8, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Transit detectives in Queens are looking to find the brute who attacked a man at random on board a subway train earlier this week. The NYPD released images and video late Friday night of the suspect behind the violent assault on board a Jamaica-bound F train as it…
Feb. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry A former superintendent at the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City and two other NCHA complexes in Queens was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for awarding micro-purchase contracts and other contract work to vendors. Juan… Read more »
Feb. 2, 2025 By Dean Moses Queens cops are on the hunt for three youths who shot a teen boy in a caught-on-camera afternoon ambush last month. According to police sources, the brazen incident unfolded on 123rd Avenue and 147th Street in Jamaica at around 2:54 p.m. on Jan. 28. Authorities said a group…
Jan. 26, 2025 By Dean Moses Queens detectives are questioning a teenager who allegedly stabbed a man to death during an argument early on Sunday morning. According to police sources, officers from the 115th Precinct were called to a home near the corner of 35th Avenue and 102nd Street in Corona just after 6…
Jan. 26, 2025 By Dean Moses and Robert Pozarycki Newly released surveillance footage of the suspect behind a Queens rape attempt appears to show the sicko with a handkerchief apparently used to subdue his victim. The chilling video that the NYPD released early on Sunday morning shows the suspect walking down a sidewalk and…
Jan. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry The two men who allegedly assaulted and robbed a 76-year-old Asian man near Roosevelt Avenue in Elmhurst during the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 2, were arrested separately earlier this month. Carlos Peralta, 29, of 94th Street in Jackson Heights was arrested Jan. 8 and booked at the… Read more »
Jan. 22, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Community advocates gathered in Corona Tuesday to call on Homeland Security and Trump border czar Tom Homan to take action against crime on Roosevelt Avenue and help “clean up” the area. The group, including former State Sen. Hiram Monserrate and members of the Neighbors of the American Triangle…
Jan. 16, 2025 By Dean Moses A Queens woman accused of killing her building’s superintendent due to a rent dispute came face to face with the press — and the victim’s wife — following her arrest Thursday. Sandra Cotto Navarro, 48, was charged with murder for allegedly pummeling 55-year-old Jose Portillo over the head…
Jan. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted four homeless men for attacking a 69-year-old unhoused man who was sleeping on a 7 train in Woodside just before Christmas. The victim woke up as his assailants were stealing his belongings, and a fight ensued, leading to the stabbing death of one of… Read more »
Jan. 7, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Antisemitic graffiti has repeatedly appeared along Woodside Avenue, sparking outrage from residents and a commitment from Council Member Julie Won to ensure its swift removal. The graffiti, which appeared on lampposts and the back door of a laundromat located at the intersection of 65th Street and Woodside Avenue, featured… Read more »