PODCAST: We Speak to Aleda Gagarin, Candidate for the 29th District Council Seat

Sep. 22, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld

The MTA’s $68 billion capital plan, unveiled last week, proposes starting construction on the Interborough Express (IBX), the potentially transformative light rail link between Brooklyn and Queens, within this decade.

Sep. 22, 2024 By Dean Moses

Police are on the hunt for a pervert who spat on and groped a schoolgirl in Queens on Friday, authorities said.

Sep. 22, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld

Mets owner Steve Cohen has unveiled detailed new renderings of his proposed Metropolitan Park complex near Queens’ Citi Field — which would house a new casino as well as parks, restaurants, and shopping areas — even as the project faces rough political headwinds.

Sep. 21, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki

A Queens woman was arrested Friday night for allegedly stabbing her husband to death during an apparent domestic dispute, police reported on Saturday.

Sep. 20, 2024 Athena Dawson

A group of talented, young singers from Queens performed at the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

A Woodhaven motorcyclist died nearly two weeks after he crashed into a concrete wall and was thrown off the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rockaway Beach late last month, the NYPD announced on Thursday.

Adolfo Gallego, 35, of 78th Street near Jamaica Avenue, succumbed to his injuries at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he had been clinging to life after he was ejected from his bike on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 28, and fell helmetless onto Beach Channel Drive.

Sept. 20, 2024 By Emily Davenport

Get ready to pumpkin up on the rooftop!

Sep. 20, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

Volunteers from Wells Fargo joined Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County on Tuesday, Sept. 17, to help renovate a Jamaica home as part of an affordable housing project supported by the two organizations.

Sep. 20, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Council Member Sandra Ung met with representatives from the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday, Sept. 19, to discuss the persistent issue of unlicensed vending in downtown Flushing.

Nearly four tons of illegal cannabis and related products, valued at around $10 million, were seized, and two men were arrested during a raid at a Floral Park storage facility on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the details on Thursday, following the execution of a search warrant that day. Awad Aziz, 31, and Muneer Kassim, 34, both of Brooklyn, were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance after authorities discovered a smaller quantity of crystal meth and Psilocybin products during the raid.