July 14, 2021 By Christian Murray The police are looking for three females wanted for robbing two cell phone stores in Corona on Monday. The first incident took place at around 5:15 p.m. inside Boost Mobile, located at 103-19 39th Ave., when the women entered the store and asked an employee to see an iPhone… Read more »
July 14, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A Queens lawmaker has introduced a bill that aims to stop zoos from drugging female animals as a means to promote mating. Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas said that some zoos carry out the practice so male animals have a greater chance of being able to copulate. The approach is used… Read more »
July 14, 2021 By Allie Griffin The number of council women of color representing Queens will more than quadruple next year as the New York City Council is on a path to be the most diverse class yet. Women of color will likely hold as many as nine out of the 15 Queens council seats… Read more »
July 14, 2021 By Christian Murray New York City’s vaccination campaign has prevented as many as 8,300 COVID-related deaths, the City’s Department of Health reported today. The DOH, citing a study conducted by epidemiologists at Yale University, said that the city’s campaign has also prevented 250,000 COVID-19 cases and 44,000 hospitalizations since it began through… Read more »
July 14, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A Bayside man who glorified an attack against Jews and fantasized about a mass shooting has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for buying an illegally defaced firearm. Joseph Miner, 31, was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday to 57 months in prison for purchasing a Glock… Read more »
July 13, 2021 By Christian Murray A 33-year-old woman is dead after losing control of her vehicle on the Clearview Expressway early Tuesday morning and plowing into the back of a tractor trailer that was parked on the side of the highway. Police said that Evelissa Santos Paulino, of Brooklyn, was traveling southbound near Exit… Read more »
July 13, 2021 By Christian Murray An innovative plan to transform the Ravenswood Generating Station into a renewable energy hub has the backing of NYCHA leaders as well as more than 1,000 residents from western Queens NYCHA developments. The bold plan, supported by NAACP-NYCHA branch leaders, would see green energy from upstate New York transferred… Read more »
July 13, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A series of photographs honoring Irish nationalists who died 40 years ago while on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland have gone up at two subway stations in western Queens. The images were put up at stops in Astoria and Sunnyside to pay tribute to 10 men who died… Read more »
July 13, 2021 By Allie Griffin The city is reopening more facilities this month where New Yorkers can get a city-issued ID in an effort to help undocumented residents access financial assistance via a $2.1 billion state fund created for them. The city is reopening five more IDNYC enrollment centers that have been shuttered due to… Read more »
July 13, 2021 By Allie Griffin A local nonprofit and a cultural center are joining forces to host an online film premiere tonight as part of a fundraiser for food distribution. Queens Together, a nonprofit representing restaurants and food businesses throughout the borough, and the Museum of the Moving Image are screening the premiere of… Read more »