Pumpkin picking with a view: Long Island City’s Cityside Patch returns with family-friendly Halloween and fall fun

Oct. 8, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams

Oct. 8, 2024 By Jon Sosa

Eddie’s Sweet Shop, a cherished Forest Hills ice cream parlor known for its timeless treats and family-run charm, is one of the iconic spots featured in the Monopoly: Queens Edition board that was released over the weekend.

Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill are looking for a scooter-riding armed robber and his accomplice who allegedly held up a 25-year-old man at gunpoint in broad daylight at a Woodhaven playground late last month.

The incident occurred just before noon on Wednesday, Sept. 25, when the two strangers rode a two-wheeled scooter onto the basketball court inside London Planetree Playground on Atlantic Avenue and approached the victim. One of the perpetrators pulled out a firearm and forcibly removed two gold chains from the victim’s neck and $100 in cash, police said. The bandits rode off northbound on 89th Street toward Jamaica Avenue. The victim was not injured during the encounter.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Ethan Marshall and Paul Frangipane

Several Queens leaders joined a ceremony held by the American Jewish Committee and the Queens Jewish Community Council at Queens Theatre on Monday, Oct. 7, to mark the first anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that resulted in 1,200 deaths and 250 people taken hostage.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Shane O’Brien 

Council Member Julie Won has penned an open letter criticizing the owners of a Sunnyside apartment complex damaged by a five-alarm fire last December for allowing the area surrounding the site to become a “dumping ground” over the past several months.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Naisha Roy

For Woodhaven’s Neir’s Tavern, the release of Monopoly: Queens Edition coincided with a special milestone: the iconic bar’s 195th anniversary.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld

Rideshare drivers are hoping this year’s crisis of “lockouts” from Uber and Lyft will gain the attention of regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Oct. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry

A Queens grand jury indicted five members of a drug crew operating out of the Astoria Houses NYCHA complex where they all lived, following a long-term investigation that included undercover buys of cocaine, ecstasy, and a firearm.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

After two fugitives wanted in Florida were captured at the Creedmoor migrant shelter, elected officials reignited calls to close the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERRC) due to safety concerns.

Oct. 8, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

Housing units across Queens experienced a 4.35% increase in the average cost of rent in September 2024 compared to the same month the previous year, according to a report by the real estate M.N.S. Real Estate.