Dec. 21, 2020 By Christian Murray Chip, the famed Astoria cookie bakery, is opening a shop in Sunnyside–near the 40th Street subway station. The Sunnyside location is scheduled to open at 45-05 40th St. Tuesday and will be the company’s sixth bakery since it was founded in Astoria in July 2017. The shop is known… Read more »
Dec. 20, 2020 By Michael Dorgan A non-profit organization that operates a composting facility near the Queensbridge Houses NYCHA complex has been granted a six-month extension on its lease by the Parks Dept. Big Reuse was required to leave the site, located under the Queensboro Bridge at the corner of Vernon Boulevard and Queens Plaza… Read more »
Dec. 21, 2020 By Christian Murray A gas station and auto repair shop on 21st Street are going to be demolished to make way for a mixed-use building. Demolition plans were filed with the Dept. of Buildings last week to bulldoze a one-story building at 30-75 21st St. that is located on the corner of… Read more »
Dec. 21, 2020 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for two suspects who allegedly stole more than $10,000 worth of goods from a smoke shop in Astoria last month. The suspects broke through the front window of Cloud Beast, located at 22-05 35th St., on Nov. 26 at around 3:30 a.m. and began rummaging through… Read more »
Dec. 21, 2020 By Allie Griffin A man broke into an Astoria apartment building last month and snatched several packages from the lobby that were worth hundreds of dollars. The man allegedly used a screwdriver to disable the front door lock of a building near 36th Avenue and 31st Street at 4 a.m. on Nov…. Read more »
Dec. 19, 2020 By Michael Dorgan A second person has been charged in relation to an attack on a Muslim man– in what prosecutors say was a hate crime. Eric Leon, was arraigned Thursday for allegedly beating a Muslim man outside the victim’s Rego Park home on Nov. 6, while the victim’s wife and children… Read more »
Dec. 19, 2020 By Christian Murray Three people are dead after a fire tore through a house in Elmhurst early Saturday morning. The FDNY received a call at 5:37 a.m. of a blaze inside a three-story house at 90-31 48th Ave. The fire had engulfed all three floors by the time firefighters had arrived, according… Read more »
Dec. 18, 2020 By Allie Griffin The NYPD used excessive force in responding to the George Floyd protests over the summer and further inflamed tensions with the public, according to a scathing new report. The NYC Department of Investigation (DOI) released a report Friday detailing the NYPD’s response to the protests that were triggered by… Read more »
Dec. 18, 2020 By Allie Griffin Governor Andrew Cuomo believes New York will be able to avoid a second COVID-related shutdown, he announced today. “I believe we can avoid a shutdown and I believe we will avoid a shutdown — I’ll go that far,” Cuomo said during a press briefing Friday. He said that a… Read more »
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters Dec 18, 2020, Christina Veiga, Chalkbeat New York The coronavirus pandemic will force major changes in the ways students are admitted to New York City’s competitive middle and high schools this year, the education department announced… Read more »