Nov. 13, 2023 By Iryna Shkurhan Toddler swings at Queens Valley Playground near P.S. 164 in Kew Gardens Hills were set on fire early on Saturday, Nov. 11, in an alleged act of vandalism, according to authorities. Images of the aftermath shared on X by @ViralNewsNYC showed the damage to six toddler swings that were…
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Nov. 13, 2023 By Bill Parry An F train rider was robbed inside the Van Wyck Boulevard-Briarwood subway station last week and police are searching for the couple believed to be responsible. Police say the 36-year-old victim was inside the station at Queens Boulevard and Main Street near 84th Drive when he was approached by…
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Nov. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry An F train rider was beaten unconscious during a random attack in a Jamaica Estates subway station last month, according to the NYPD. Police from the 107th Precinct and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who approached the 45-year man as he stood on the platform of the Jamaica-179th Street station on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 21. The stranger walked up behind the victim and sucker punched him in the face causing him to fall to the platform, police said. While the victim was down, the assailant proceeded to punch and…
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Nov. 6, 2023 By Bill Parry Two men were shot and wounded in Auburndale and police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are still looking for the gunman and his accomplice behind the shooting nearly a week later, according to the NYPD. The shooting went down just before 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31, when the two suspects were allegedly robbing a 28-year-old man in the vicinity of 161st Street and Jewel Avenue. The crooks were forcibly removing the victim’s property when a 61-year-old man attempted to aid the victim and a struggle ensued. During the melee, one of…
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Nov. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry
The decomposing body that was discovered stuffed in a recycling bin at a Hillcrest bank near St. John’s University last month was identified Nov. 1 as a man who lived in the neighborhood, according to the NYPD.
Oct. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD announced Oct. 27 that it has reclassified an investigation into the macabre discovery of decomposing human remains in a Hillcrest bank parking lot last month after the NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner deemed it a homicide. On the night of Wednesday, Sept. 20, police from the 107th Precinct responded to a 911 call of found remains in front the TD Bank located near St. John’s University at 164th Street and Union Turnpike after a worker at the bank noticed a pungent smell as he was taking out the trash at…
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Oct. 25, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD released the crime stats for the 28-day period of Sept. 24 to Oct. 22 in northern and southern Queens and, while the numbers show there was little change year-over-year in major crimes, there was an overall increase in crimes across the borough. Some of the notable trends…
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Oct. 18, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD released the crime stats for northern and southern Queens from Sept. 17 to Oct. 15. While much of it follows a similar trend to last week’s stats, there are some notable changes in trends. Rape cases in northern Queens rose from 15 to 20 year-over-year. While the 104th, 111th and 112th precincts each saw no change, the only northern Queens precinct to experience a decline was the 115th, from five last year to one this year. Southern Queens, on the other hand, experienced no change compared to the same period of time…
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Oct. 12, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The NYPD is searching for two crooks who punched a man in the face before robbing him in Jamaica last month. According to the NYPD, at approximately 2:45 a.m. on Sept. 2, a 39-year-old man was walking in the rear parking lot of 178-23 Hillside Ave., within the confines…
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Oct. 11, 2023 By Ethan Marshall While burglary cases continue to trend down, felony assault and grand larceny of automobiles have been on the rise from Sept. 10 to Oct. 8 when compared to the same time period as last year, according to the 28-day crime stats released by the NYPD for the precincts in northern and southern Queens. This continues a similar trend seen in the previous report, for Sept. 3 through Oct. 1. Additionally, there were some crimes, like grand larceny, that had very different changes between northern and southern Queens. In northern Queens, the number of burglary…
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