July 7, 2025 By Dean Moses Police are investigating after a man was found dead aboard a boat on the Newtown Creek Sunday afternoon. According to police sources, officers from the 108th Precinct received a 911 call of a person unconscious near Railroad and Greenpoint Avenues in an industrial portion of Long Island City at… Read more »
July 3, 2025 By Bill Parry Disturbing details have emerged in the investigation and prosecution of a North Corona man who is accused of offering a 13-year-old girl cash in exchange for a sex act late last month. Ali Hamed, 25, of 97th Street in Corona, was taken into custody on Friday, June 27, after… Read more »
July 3, 2025 By Bill Parry A Corona man was sentenced on Wednesday to one to three years in prison for being part of a mob that ambushed two police officers outside a migrant shelter in Long Island City just over a year ago. Miguel Chiluisa, 24, of Roosevelt Avenue, and Natali Iza, 28, address… Read more »
July 2, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for an alleged chain snatcher who targeted a woman in Woodside late last month and remains at large. The 61-year-old victim was in front of 48-41 48th St. near the $275 million East End Studios construction site along… Read more »
July 2, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon A man died after being struck by the 7 train in Long Island City during the Wednesday morning rush hour. According to police, the incident occurred around 5:33 a.m. on July 2 at the Court Square station. Officers from Transit District 20 and the 108th Precinct responded to a… Read more »
July 2, 2025 By Bill Parry A Manhattan man was convicted of two counts of attempted murder and other related crimes for shooting at two police officers, who had attempted to question him after spotting him on a Jackson Heights street corner wearing a disguise. Antonio Olmeda, 66, of Fifth Avenue, was convicted by a… Read more »
July 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Ravenswood Houses man was arrested by the NYPD Warrant Squad on June 26 and booked at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows, where he was charged with assault for a pepper spray attack on a mother and baby on an M train in Long Island City. Edward Vargas,… Read more »
July 1, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria doctor admitted he raped multiple unconscious women at his apartment and sexually abused others at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital where the gastroenterologist was employed. Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng, 35, or Broadway, pleaded guilty Monday in Queens Supreme Court to four counts of rape in the first degree… Read more »
June 30, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria man was sentenced on Monday to 25 years to life in prison for the brutal 2022 murder of FDNY EMS Captain Alison Russo during an unprovoked knife attack just around the corner from her stationhouse. Peter Zisopoulos, 37, of 41st Street, was convicted by a jury last… Read more »
June 27, 2025 By Dean Moses Police arrested a man Thursday who allegedly pepper-sprayed a mother and her 11-month-old daughter aboard a Queens subway train last week, just one day after the NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect to the public. Edward Vargas, 34, was apprehended by the NYPD Warrant Squad on June 26,… Read more »