Man Fatally Shot Inside Lobby of East Elmhurst Building: NYPD

Dec. 6, 2023 By Bill Parry

A woman was forced into a Murray Hill alley where she was sexually abused by a stranger early Monday, Dec. 4, according to the NYPD.

Dec. 6, 2023 By Anthony Medina

A Christmas tree shines brightly once again in Ozone Park for the fifth year in a row, thanks to the efforts of local community organizations and elected officials.

Dec. 6, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki

Next year’s Belmont Stakes will not be run at Belmont Park on the Queens/Nassau border, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.

A woman was found dead inside her East Elmhurst apartment on Tuesday, according to the NYPD.

Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights responded to a 911 call just after 5 p.m. on Dec. 5 and, upon their arrival, officers discovered a 55-year-old woman unconscious with scratches on her face inside her apartment in a house located on 96th Street, a half-block from Northern Boulevard, police said.

Dec. 6, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan

A dozen attorneys in Queens launched the Queens County Criminal Bar Association to support others through networking and education. 

Dec. 6, 2023 By Anthony Medina

An experimental cultural and community center in the heart of Ridgewood plans to host a series of fundraising festivals to celebrate its 10-year anniversary this winter.

Dec. 5, 2023 By Bill Parry

A Springfield Gardens teenager and his parents were criminally charged in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl who was a passenger in his car when he crashed into a parked UPS truck while allegedly speeding at more than 100 miles an hour, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office.

Community Board 7 (CB 7) on Dec. 4 voted overwhelmingly to approve phase two of the Willets Point Revitalization Plan that will bring 2,500 units of 100% affordable housing — the city’s biggest affordable housing community since the 1980s — a 650-seat public elementary school, a 250-room hotel and a 25,000 soccer stadium as the new home for the New York City Football Club, on what was known as the Iron Triangle across Tom Seaver Way from Citi Field.

Dec. 5, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children was one of 370 nonprofits across the country to receive a $10,000 neighborhood grant from Rite Aid Healthy Futures, an initiative started in 2001 to ease health challenges faced by children. 

The NYPD is looking for two violent men who have targeted four spas across three Queens police precincts in the last week-and-a-half, leaving several spa workers injured in assaults and one man critically injured after he was shot, according to authorities.

On Monday, Dec. 4, one of the men entered the Sun Spa at 112-21 Jamaica Ave. in Richmond Hill, within the confines of the 102nd Precinct, at around 3:40 p.m., when the suspect pulled out a handgun and demanded that a 50-year-old woman working in the spa take him to a private room, police said. Once inside, the perpetrator allegedly put the firearm against her head and sexually assaulted her.