PODCAST: We Talk to Yi (Andy) Chen, Candidate for the 25th District Council Seat

Dec. 16, 2024 By Colum Motherway

With the holiday season in full swing, many festive events are taking place all across Queens neighborhoods for residents to enjoy.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry

A stolen ghost-car driver was fleeing from police when he lost control of a white BMW and slammed into a group of four pedestrians in front of a popular Jackson Heights eatery early Sunday morning.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon

The MTA’s Transit and Bus Committee voted Monday to add more than 400 new R211 subway cars, including dozens of “open-gangway” cars, to its fleet of trains in NYC.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Shane O’Brien 

An Astoria teacher has been chosen as one of 12 educators nationwide to join the 2024/25 Scholastic Teacher Fellow Cohort, a program that empowers teachers to share valuable insights and develop classroom resources to support educators across the country.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Something is buzzing at LaGuardia Airport. 

A Fresh Meadows man was killed after a fire tore through his garden apartment on Sunday morning, according to the FDNY.

Queens dispatchers received a 911 call at 7:17 a.m. reporting a fire in a multiple dwelling at 67-38 190th Ave. A dozen units jammed the block between 192nd Street and 69th Avenue, bringing 60 firefighters and EMS personnel to the garden apartment complex.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Shane O’Brien 

A number of students at a Long Island City middle school visited a Morgan Stanley office earlier in December to experience a day in the life of New York City finance professionals.

A woman was shot to death and a man was wounded by an intruder at her home in College Point early Monday morning.

Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing responded to a 911 call of shots fired at 119-01 14th Rd. at 1:15 a.m., where they found a 32-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her head and a 49-year-old man with gunshot wounds to his arm and back.

Dec. 16, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

A new law banning the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores across New York State came into effect on Sunday, forcing many pet stores to reevaluate their business models and prompting mixed reactions from stakeholders.

The body of an adult woman was pulled from the frigid waters of one of the lakes in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Sunday morning.

Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst responded to a 911 call after the 46-year-old victim was seen floating on Meadow Lake just before 7:30 a.m. An NYPD scuba unit recovered the woman, who was unconscious and unresponsive, police said.  EMS responded to the location and pronounced the woman dead at the scene.