Jan. 12, 2021 By Allie Griffin The first IKEA store in Queens opened Monday. The popular Swedish furniture and homeware retailer opened a 115,000 square-foot store in the Rego Center shopping mall, at the corner of Queens Boulevard and Junction Boulevard. The store is now open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. It’s the first… Read more »
Jan. 12, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Satanic graffiti was spray-painted across a wall outside a Sunnyside business overnight Friday. The offensive graffiti was scrawled across the side wall of Bill’s Wines & Liquors, located at 42-26, 43rd Ave., sometime between 8 p.m. Friday and noon on Saturday, according to police. The graffiti consisted of a… Read more »
Jan. 12, 2021 By Allie Griffin Citi Field, home to the Mets, will be converted into a mega COVID-19 vaccination site later this month with the capacity to administer the shot to thousands of people each day. The Queens ballfield site will be open 24/7 beginning the week of Jan. 25, Mayor Bill de Blasio… Read more »
Jan. 12, 2021 By Christina Santucci Organizers of the Queens Night Market have announced plans to return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park this spring after last year’s event was cancelled due to COVID-19. “In order to open in April, we have to start the process now. We are going to target April 17 and keep… Read more »
Jan. 12, 2021 By Allie Griffin The nighttime supervisor at a notorious Kew Gardens hotel was arrested Monday for allegedly allowing criminal activity to go on inside the hotel and outside its front door on multiple occasions. The Umbrella Hotel employee, Gulshan Gandhi, was collared on two counts of criminal nuisance charges, Queens District Attorney… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2021 By Michael Dorgan State Sen. Michael Gianaris has introduced a bill aimed at protecting employees from contracting COVID-19 by improving workplace safety standards. The bill, called the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (HERO), would require businesses to implement a range of safety standards in order to reduce the spread of… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2020 By Michael Dorgan A fire tore through two buildings containing several businesses in Flushing Friday night. The FDNY said that it received a call just before midnight Friday about a blaze inside a three-story building located at 136-15 37th Ave. The fire ripped through the building– occupied by a hair salon, a… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2021 By Allie Griffin A notorious Kew Gardens hotel — where a triple shooting left a 20-year-old man dead on New Year’s Day — has officially closed. The Umbrella Hotel closed Friday, a hotel worker told the Queens Post Monday. The closure comes one week after the fatal shooting–and after months of demand… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A developer has filed plans to construct a 5-story warehouse in Long Island City that is expected to be occupied by e-commerce companies. Innovo Property Group, a Manhattan-based company, filed permits with the Department of Buildings on Dec. 14 calling for a 166-foot tall structure to go up at… Read more »
Jan. 11, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for a knife-wielding man who launched a vicious attack on a worker inside a Long Island City hotel Sunday morning – slashing him several times before the victim managed to break free. The suspect was loitering inside the hotel lobby of La Quinta Inn, located at… Read more »