Jan. 4, 2022 By Allie Griffin A Flushing woman was charged with murder Monday after she allegedly killed a man in her bed and fled the state in his car back in September. Haiyan Deng, 31, was indicted by a Queens grand jury on murder, burglary and gun charges for the alleged Sept. 18 slaying… Read more »
Jan. 4, 2022 By Allie Griffin Police are looking for a man who allegedly took $2,500 from a woman’s backpack in Jackson Heights on Christmas Eve. The apparent pickpocket was caught on video surveillance closely trailing the 28-year-old woman as she walked near the Jackson Heights- Elmhurst border by 82nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, police… Read more »
Jan. 4, 2022 By Allie Griffin Council Member Julie Won officially took office representing District 26 Monday and is now offering constituent services remotely. Won said she and her staff will be working remotely for the time being due to the current surge of COVID cases. Once it’s safe, her team will move into her… Read more »
Jan. 4, 2022 By Michael Dorgan A near century-old building in Long Island City is being repurposed into a state-of-the-art facility that will specialize in life sciences. The seven-story building, which is nearly 210,000 square feet, is located in the Court Square section of Long Island City at 43-10 23rd St. The site will be… Read more »
Jan. 4, 2022 By Michael Dorgan The driver of an Audi Q7 was shot by two teens during an attempted carjacking in Forest Hills Monday night. The victim, 51, was parked outside an apartment building at 112-41 72nd St. at around 9:30 p.m. when the suspects appeared and tried to take his vehicle, police said…. Read more »
Jan. 4, 2022 By Christian Murray Huge Ma, who founded the TurboVax website last year that helped connect New Yorkers to COVID-19 vaccine sites, announced last month that he is running for Assembly. Ma, 32, a Democrat who was raised in Astoria, is running for the Assembly District 37 seat, which has been occupied by… Read more »
Jan. 3, 2022 By Allie Griffin A Queens council member whose district doesn’t have a single city-run COVID test site said the de Blasio administration excluded his neighborhood based on its racial makeup. Council Member Robert Holden said his constituents have been denied testing resources since the former administration determined that they didn’t live in… Read more »
Jan. 3, 2022 By Allie Griffin Applications to serve on one of Queens’ 14 community boards are now open, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced Monday. Residents interested in becoming community board members must submit their applications online by Feb. 16. This is the second year that the borough president’s office has offered the application… Read more »
Jan. 3, 2022 By Christian Murray Permits have been filed for an eight-story, 61 unit building to go up on 50th Street in Woodside where Phyzique Gym and New City Billiards & Café were located. The proposed development is expected to go up at 43-12 50th St., between 43rd and Roosevelt Avenues, near the 52nd… Read more »
Jan. 3, 2022 By Michael Dorgan A man is dead after he leaped over a subway turnstile in Forest Hills early Sunday morning and snapped his neck upon landing. Christopher De La Cruz, 28, went headfirst into the ground inside the Forest Hills-71st Avenue train station after attempting to jump a turnstile to evade the… Read more »