Dec. 20, 2021 By Allie Griffin Queens Community Board 2 is calling on the city to add more COVID-19 test sites in Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside. Community Board 2 leaders penned a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Mayor-elect Eric Adams Monday urging them to add more city-run sites in the western... Read more »
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Sept. 3, 2021 By Allie Griffin The death toll of Hurricane Ida rose to 13 citywide — including 11 fatalities in Queens — after more bodies were discovered Thursday. The NYPD confirmed the deaths of three more people in a flooded basement apartment in East Flushing just before noon Thursday. Their deaths brought the number... Read more »
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Nov. 12, 2024 By Shane O’Brien
Department of Transportation representatives and elected officials gathered in Sunnyside Tuesday afternoon to announce the completion of the sixth and final phase of the Queens Boulevard Redesign, which has resulted in a 68% decline in fatalities along the boulevard since work began in 2015.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Athena Dawson
Mayor Eric Adams, New York City officials, family members, and friends held a solemn memorial service commemorating the victims of the tragedy of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens on Nov. 12, 2001.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear two challenges to New York’s rent stabilization law, keeping in place a system regulating rents for roughly a million apartments despite landlords attempting to overturn it.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Bill Parry
The pastor of a Sunnyside church and his wife are elated with the safe return of their daughter on Friday, just over a week after a citywide search was launched to find her.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Czarinna Andres
The holiday season is set to shine in Queens as Queens Center and The Shops at Atlas Park roll out festive events from parades to tree lightings, photos with Santa, and a cozy breakfast event for the holiday season.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday raised concerns about City Council legislation that would relieve most renters from having to pay real estate broker fees, a day before the bill is expected to pass the chamber.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Ethan Marshall
Construction for a new 9-story affordable housing building at 65-25 Queens Blvd. in Woodside has just topped out.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Shane O’Brien
The Department of Transportation has indefinitely postponed a virtual workshop for the planned 16-mile Queens Waterfront Greenway in order to establish a code of conduct after an in-person workshop in Douglaston last month was disrupted by a clash between Council Member Vickie Paladino and a number of greenway activists.
Nov. 12, 2024 By Shane O’Brien
Q.E.D. Astoria is set to host four comedy events this week as part of the ongoing New York Comedy Festival.
Bedlam broke out inside a jam-packed Corona barbershop on Friday evening when a man sought refuge from armed gang members who chased him on Roosevelt Avenue before a hero emerged to confront the gunman and prevent bloodshed.
Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights reported that an unknown man entered Lagumas El Cache Barbershop at 103-17 Roosevelt Ave. just before 5:45 p.m. on Nov. 8 and started shooting at a man before leaving the location. There have been no arrests, and the reckless endangerment investigation is ongoing, police said Monday.
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