Queens Public Library Closes Eight Branches Until Further Notice Due to COVID-19

Jun. 26, 2025 By Dean Moses

Police arrested the man on Thursday who allegedly pepper-sprayed a mother and her baby on a Queens train after she refused to let him use her cell phone.

Jun. 26, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Gov. Kathy Hochul visited LaGuardia Airport Thursday afternoon to celebrate enhancements of the Healthy Terminals Act, which provides improved health care and leave benefits for workers at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International and LaGuardia airports.

Jun. 26, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

The New York City mayor’s race “didn’t stop on June 24, it started on June 24.”

A 15-year-old boy was arrested Thursday morning and charged with manslaughter after a teenage boy was fatally shot in his Jamaica home after school on Wednesday afternoon. Jamuri Mezar, 14, was hanging out with three friends inside his third-floor apartment building after school. One of his friends had a brought a firearm to the afterschool gathering and while the four boys were rough-housing, that gun went off, striking Mezar in his head, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

Police from the 103rd Precinct responded to a 911 call of a 14-year-old shot inside the Norman Towers, located at 90-14 161st St., at around 5 p.m. Upon arrival, they found Mezar lying in a pool of blood after he sustained a gunshot wound to the head, an NYPD spokesman said Thursday. 

Police from the 106th Precinct in South Ozone Park and Transit District 20 are looking for a groper who targeted an A train rider as she passed through a turnstile inside the Howard Beach-JFK Airport subway station.

The suspect may have drawn notice for wearing a hooded winter jacket on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 18, when the temperature was in the mid-80s. The 32-year-old woman was about to exit the station located at 159th Avenue and Coleman Square at 1:30 p.m. when the warmly dressed stranger with a rolling piece of luggage approached her at the turnstile and grabbed her rear end and private area over her clothing, police said Thursday. The suspect ran out of the station and fled on foot in an unknown direction.

June 26, 2025 Queens Post News Team

A number of elected officials have condemned an alleged ICE raid that occurred in Sunnyside earlier this month and called for expanded “know your rights” outreach in the neighborhood. Immigrant residents, meanwhile, say the incident has left them more cautious about leaving their homes.

Jun. 26, 2025 By QNS News Team

Queens residents can make a splash this summer as New York City’s public outdoor pools officially open for the season on Friday, June 27, just in time for school break and soaring temperatures.

June 26, 2025 By Bill Parry

The NYPD has released surveillance images of the culprit they say is behind a pepper spray attack on a mother and her 11-month-old daughter in broad daylight at a Long Island City subway station on the morning of Friday, June 20.

Jun. 26, 2025 By Bob Helbig, Energage, and amNewYork Staff

If you want to really know what’s happening at work, ask the people on the front lines.

June 26, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

An Astoria dog owner was arrested earlier this month and arraigned on animal cruelty charges for allegedly injuring his small female poodle by repeatedly throwing the pet down a flight of stairs and then dragging the puppy back up the steps by the leash.