Jan. 10, 2025 By Queens Post News Team Luck strikes in LIC as the New York Lottery announced that a third-prize-winning Powerball ticket worth $50,000 was sold at the Mobil Gas Station, dba Greenpoint Expressway Inc., located at 35-15 Greenpoint Ave., for the Jan. 8 drawing. The winning numbers for the Powerball game are drawn… Read more »
Jan. 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas joined Gov. Kathy Hochul at Long Island’s Westbury Middle School Friday to announce the inclusion of free breakfast and lunch for all of New York State’s 2.7 million students in the State of the State budget proposal. González-Rojas, a prime sponsor of the Universal School… Read more »
Jan. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien U.S. Rep Nydia Velázquez has introduced a new bill aiming to protect tenants from “unscrupulous” landlords, creating new violations under federal law for discrimination based on a tenant’s source of income. The Landlord Accountability Act of 2025, the first bill introduced by Velázquez in the 119th Congress, would allow… Read more »
Jan. 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Floating Hospital, a Long Island City-based non-profit that has provided unrestricted healthcare and relief to New Yorkers for the past 150 years, has received a $200,000 grant from Bank of America after being named a 2024 New York City Neighborhood Builder. The program, now in its 20th year,… Read more »
Jan. 9, 2025 By Bill Parry An East Elmhurst man torched his apartment after threatening to shoot his girlfriend during an argument before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide on Wednesday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria received a 911 call to conduct… Read more »
Jan. 9, 2025 By Bill Parry A Woodside couple pleaded guilty Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court to attempted murder for an attack on their neighbor that rose to a level of violence rarely seen in the neighborhood that borders Sunnyside. Arturo Cuevas, 32, and his wife, Daisy Barrera, 28, of 48th St., admitted they battered… Read more »
Jan. 9, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) will honor Martin Luther King Jr. next week with a family day of talks, tours, and digital media activities. MoMI, located at 36-01 35th Ave., will hold a Family Day on Sunday, Jan. 19, between 2 and 5 p.m., to pay tribute to… Read more »
Jan. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights and Transit District 20 are still looking for a chain-snatcher who targeted a 7 train rider as he waited on the Manhattan-bound platform at the 82nd Street subway station last month. The robbery occurred just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec…. Read more »
Jan. 8, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Several community advocates gathered in Jackson Heights Tuesday afternoon to demand answers from NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch regarding 14 alleged brothels and sex worker hotspots along Roosevelt Avenue. Ramon Ramirez-Baez, president of the Let’s Improve Roosevelt Ave. coalition, former Council Member Hiram Monserrate, Council District 25 candidate Ramses Frias… Read more »
Jan. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry New York’s hometown airline officials made a chilling discovery on board one of its aircraft after a JetBlue flight out of JFK Airport landed in Florida on Monday night. Two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of the Airbus A320-232 just after 11 p.m. during a… Read more »