Permits filed for new 7-story mixed-use building on Astoria Boulevard

May 23, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

A new restaurant offering a menu full of traditional Nepalese dishes and American classics celebrated its grand opening on Queens Boulevard on Thursday afternoon.

Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who shoved an E train rider onto the tracks at the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue–JFK Airport subway station on Thursday morning.

The 39-year-old victim was standing on the southbound platform at around 4:40 a.m. when a stranger approached him and pushed him onto the track bed below in an unprovoked attack, police said Friday. The suspect fled the station onto Sutphin Boulevard and ran off in an unknown direction. EMS responded to the scene and transported the injured man to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.

May. 23, 2025 By Colum Motherway

City officials, transportation advocates and community leaders took the inaugural walk across the newly opened pedestrian path on the Queensboro Bridge’s South Outer Roadway on Sunday, May 18.

A Bellerose man was arrested and booked at the 105th Precinct in Queens Village on Tuesday, May 20, five months after he struck and killed his 78-year-old neighbor with his vehicle at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and 91st Avenue.

The fatal collision occurred just after 6:40 p.m. on Saturday, December 14, 2024, as Benjamin Jean-Baptiste, 39, of Ontario Road, was behind the wheel of a 2010 Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling northbound on 91st Avenue.

May. 23, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

Two leading candidates in the 2025 NYC mayor’s race — former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and city Comptroller Brad Lander — both say they have reached the city’s $8.3 million spending cap when including public matching funds with a little over four weeks until the Democratic primary.

May. 23, 2025 By Paulina Albarracin

Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer — and the start of a new racing season in Queens.

A Flushing fugitive failed to return to court before trial and was convicted in absentia on Monday for a violent armed robbery of a young woman at her Parsons Boulevard apartment with two accomplices in 2022.

Michael Fan, 25, of Farrington Street, was found guilty of multiple burglary and robbery counts and an unlawful imprisonment charge before Queens Supreme Court Justice Gary Miret on May 19.

May. 23, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Full A train service to the Rockaway Peninsula has officially resumed following a nearly five-month shutdown and state and transit leaders marked the milestone with a celebratory event on Monday, May 19.

May 23, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Residents of Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside are experiencing a sharp rise in overall well-being, according to the latest data from the American Human Development Index.