De Blasio Sets Date for Special Election to Fill Council Seat Vacated by Lancman

Aug. 17, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon and Lloyd Mitchell

Police in Queens are investigating a shooting at a neighborhood convenience store on Saturday night that left two people wounded.

Aug. 17, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

Police in Queens are still looking for the hit-and-run driver who fatally struck a pedestrian near JFK Airport last week. 

Aug. 17, 2025 By Dean Moses

New York officials expressed outrage and heartbreak over ICE’s seizure of a 7-year-old Queens girl and two of her family members at immigration court last week.

Aug. 16, 2025 By Adam Daly

Citi Bike users will soon have to verify their age to use the service, amNewYork has learned.

Aug. 16, 2025 By Yolanda Florez, Director of JPAFHC’s WIC Program and Dr. Carlene Mondesir-Harewood, MD, FACOG, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JPAFHC

August is National Breastfeeding Month, a time to celebrate and support one of the most natural and powerful ways to give babies the healthiest possible start in life. As women who have dedicated our careers to caring for mothers, babies, and families, we have seen firsthand the life-changing impact of breastfeeding—for both parent and child. 

Aug. 16, 2025 By Adam Daly

A dozen NYC-based cannabis businesses are suing to block the state Office of Cannabis Management from enforcing a newly reinterpreted school-distance rule, arguing the abrupt reversal threatens to wipe out their businesses and undermine the state’s equity goals.

Aug. 15, 2025 By Bill Parry

Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are looking for a gunman who allegedly shot a 22-year-old man in broad daylight on Tuesday, Aug. 12.

Aug. 15, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards on Friday endorsed Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the November general election, urging other prominent Democrats who have been “sitting on the fence” to “meet this moment” and get behind his campaign.

Aug. 15, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Robert Holden has strongly criticized Queens Borough President Donovan Richards for endorsing Assembly Member and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani ahead of November’s general election, although several elected officials across Queens praised the borough president for making the endorsement.

Aug. 15, 2025 By Bill Parry

A Bayside man was sentenced to eight years in prison on Aug. 14 for attempted assault and other crimes for driving his minivan on the Clearview Expressway, ramming multiple vehicles and injuring two motorists in separate collisions in 2023.