E-Bike Rider Killed in Hit-And-Run on the Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park

Dec. 30, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

Permits have been filed for the construction of a new 9-story mixed-used building at 25-08 43rd Ave. in Long Island City. The site, which was previously occupied by an auto repair shop and private parking space, is set to be transformed into a modern residential and commercial development.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Colum Motherway

Rise Light & Power, the owners and operators of the Ravenswood Generating Station in Long Island City, hosted their fourth annual toy giveaway on Thursday, Dec. 19, as part of their Renewable Ravenswood initiative to support the Queens community.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

A new arts initiative in Queens has appointed a prominent leader from the borough’s cultural scene as its first executive director.

The victim in a Queens cold case homicide has finally been identified more than three decades after her body was discovered in a grassy area along the Cross Island Expressway near Cambria Heights in August 1991, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday.

Advanced DNA testing revealed the body of the murder victim, found with her ankles bound with a cord and covered with a large wooden board, was Judy Rodriguez, who was reported missing by her family shortly after being last seen on Jan. 23, 1991, at her daughter’s first birthday party.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Athena Dawson

A local toy drive brought holiday cheer to thousands of children in need in Northeast Queens and beyond. 

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards has announced a plan to provide 13 Sunnyside households displaced by a devastating fire in December 2023 with an additional round of six-month temporary housing agreements.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams

A Long Island woman was struck and killed by the driver of a yellow cab in a chain-reaction crash in South Ozone Park during the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 28.

Vidya Dookran-Franco, 51, of Bernard Street in Merrick, was walking with two men on the sidewalk near the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and 115th Avenue at 3:10 a.m. when the cab struck a vehicle and jumped the curb ramming the three pedestrians, police said Sunday.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Colum Motherway

The New York Lottery announced on Saturday, Dec. 28, that a top-prize winning ticket for the Take 5 Midday draw on Dec. 27 was sold in Ridgewood.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Council Member Sandra Ung partnered with a local nonprofit organization to provide relief to elderly victims of a benefits scam that left them without essential resources ahead of the holiday season.