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

Sep. 20, 2024 Athena Dawson

A group of talented, young singers from Queens performed at the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

A Woodhaven motorcyclist died nearly two weeks after he crashed into a concrete wall and was thrown off the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge in Rockaway Beach late last month, the NYPD announced on Thursday.

Adolfo Gallego, 35, of 78th Street near Jamaica Avenue, succumbed to his injuries at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he had been clinging to life after he was ejected from his bike on the night of Wednesday, Aug. 28, and fell helmetless onto Beach Channel Drive.

Sep. 20, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

Volunteers from Wells Fargo joined Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester County on Tuesday, Sept. 17, to help renovate a Jamaica home as part of an affordable housing project supported by the two organizations.

Sep. 20, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Council Member Sandra Ung met with representatives from the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) on Thursday, Sept. 19, to discuss the persistent issue of unlicensed vending in downtown Flushing.

Nearly four tons of illegal cannabis and related products, valued at around $10 million, were seized, and two men were arrested during a raid at a Floral Park storage facility on Tuesday, Sept. 17.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced the details on Thursday, following the execution of a search warrant that day. Awad Aziz, 31, and Muneer Kassim, 34, both of Brooklyn, were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night on charges of criminal possession of a controlled substance after authorities discovered a smaller quantity of crystal meth and Psilocybin products during the raid.

Sept. 20, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

LaGuardia Community College received a significant funding boost on Thursday, Sept. 19, when Council Member Julie Won presented President Kenneth Adams with a check for $4.5 million.

Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood and the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst are looking for a creep who groped two young girls on the same MTA bus line just minutes apart on Wednesday morning.

The first incident occurred within the 110th Precinct as the MTA Q58 bus was in front of 86-15 Broadway in Elmhurst at 7:37 a.m., when the stranger came up to an 11-year-old girl and touched her breasts, police said, adding that the youngster was not injured during the incident. The suspect remained on the bus as it crossed Queens Boulevard into the confines of the 104th Precinct.

Sept. 20, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Henry Moslen, a letter carrier at the Jackson Heights Post Office, reached a golden milestone last month, celebrating 50 years of delivering mail in the same community.

Sep. 20, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

Aerial Haven opened its doors during the bleak early days of the pandemic, but nearly four years later, the College Point studio, known for its circus-style aerial arts, is taking off.

Sept. 20, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

New renderings of the next major phase of the Halletts Point development, at 20 and 30 Halletts Point in Astoria, have been unveiled by the Durst Organization.