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Apr. 5, 2025 Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society

One of Woodhaven’s most well-known streets, Forest Parkway, celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. Beginning at a T-intersection on Jamaica Avenue, it extends just 2,500 feet before ending atop a hill in Forest Park at Oak Ridge, the former golf clubhouse and current home of the park’s administrators.

Apr. 5, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

City Comptroller and 2025 mayor’s race hopeful Brad Lander is pitching a plan to improve the Big Apple’s vast but crumbling public housing stock, as a group of New York City Housing Authority tenant leaders will on Saturday announce their support for his City Hall bid, amNewYork has learned.

Apr. 4, 2025 By Christy Hinko

This summer, the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame will host its first-ever All-Star Summer Band Camp, offering high school students a unique opportunity to learn, perform and explore the region’s rich musical heritage.

April 4, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Foodies and dessert lovers are in for a delicious surprise at Mayahuel in Astoria, where the newest dessert menu puts masa—corn dough—at center stage, showcasing just how sweet and versatile corn can be.

A Jamaica man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for stabbing his older brother to death in July 2022 and eluding law enforcement as a fugitive for months until he was tracked down in Florida and extradited back to Queens to face justice.

Henry Gutierrez, 32, of Jamaica Avenue, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon on Feb. 10 following a jury trial.

Apr. 4, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

A Queens-based elder care program is embracing the city’s cultural diversity by celebrating two of South Asia’s most important holidays with its senior participants.

Apr. 4, 2025 By QNS News Team

A New York entrepreneur has expanded her role in the early childhood education field by acquiring two new childcare centers, bringing her total to three locations serving families across Queens and Long Island.

A Southeast Queens man admitted he paid a 14-year-old girl for sex and later coerced her to engage in sex acts with paying customers so she could pay off a purported debt to him.

Troy Siddons, 41, of 127th Avenue in Jamaica, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Queens Supreme Court to sex trafficking and criminal possession of a weapon and faces up to 14 years in prison at sentencing.

Apr. 4, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Surviving spouses of fallen service members were honored at the annual Gold Star Spouses Day ceremony on Thursday, April 3, held at the Helen Marshall Cultural Center at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens.

A Queens grand jury has indicted three individuals on charges of murder, conspiracy, and other crimes in connection with the cold case stabbing death of 17-year-old Talasia Cuffie.

Cuffie was fatally attacked after attending a 2019 memorial basketball game honoring Aamir Griffin, a 14-year-old who had been shot and killed at the Baisley Park Houses. Prosecutors allege that the defendants lured Cuffie to a secluded block in South Jamaica, where she was stabbed and left bleeding on the street for more than 20 minutes before she was discovered.