Panda Express opens new location in Long Island City

Aug. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Queens youngsters took the stage at the Police Athletic League’s (PAL) annual Cultural Day event. Over 250 PAL participants from across the five boroughs participated in Cultural Day at PAL’s Harlem Center, located at 441 Manhattan Ave., on Friday, Aug. 9.

Aug. 22, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

The Center for the Women for New York (CWNY) is bringing its “A Taste of the World” event back to Bayside this September.  

Aug. 22, 2024 By Kathryn Greene

On 30th Street, nestled under the N/W train tracks, Mister Everything is the latest arrival in a series of retail spaces that include Arepa Lady, Urban Vegan Roots, Sala, and Sotto La Luna.

A Richmond Hill man was arrested on Tuesday night and criminally charged with murder for beating his aunt to death with a broom at her South Jamaica home earlier that day.

Alexander Fleming, 29, of 91st Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night on a criminal complaint charging him with murder in the second degree and other related crimes after he admitted to homicide detectives at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica that he struck 55-year-old aunt Juanita Dallas “multiple times about her head,” causing her death.

Aug. 22, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Sunnyside will celebrate Ecuadorian Independence Day with an event at Lowery Plaza this Friday evening.

Aug. 22, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

A small number of protesters gathered at Citi Field Wednesday afternoon to campaign against the New York Mets’ use of facial recognition technology at ticket points throughout the baseball ground.

The FDNY battled a fire at a Richmond Hill e-bike store early Thursday morning for the second time in 17 months. Once again, a Hazmat unit was called on to deal with the presence of lithium-ion batteries that appear to have caused the blaze.

Firefighters arrived at Kings Electric Scooters at 102-44 Jamaica Ave. just before 2:30 a.m. and began removing dozens of charred gas-powered and electric two-wheeled vehicles from the store.

A Bronx panhandler was indicted by a Queens grand jury for the attempted murder for the stabbing of a 23-year-old woman who was attacked while leaving the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station in Richmond Hill last month.

Two good Samaritans from Venezuela, who live with their families at a nearby migrant shelter, ran to her rescue and intervened, holding the perpetrator until police arrived.

Aug. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall and Paul Frangipane

As the New York Mets continue their playoff push, the team made a very special signing Tuesday, Aug. 20. Eight-year-old Mason Maier got to live out his dream when he signed an honorary contract to be a “Met for a Day.”

Aug. 21, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Elmhurst Hospital’s Suicide Prevention in Youth Program (ESPY) will host a block party on Saturday, Sep. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. outside the hospital’s Community Medical Center.