Feb. 25, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Multiple tenants of an apartment building at 30-02 39th Ave. in Long Island City have submitted a class action lawsuit against their landlord, 30-02 Associates LLC, accusing them of illegal rent overcharges. The lawsuit was filed against the landlord of this 428-unit building, known as the Arc, following an… Read more »
Feb. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry A former superintendent at the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City and two other NCHA complexes in Queens was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for awarding micro-purchase contracts and other contract work to vendors. Juan… Read more »
Jan. 8, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted four homeless men for attacking a 69-year-old unhoused man who was sleeping on a 7 train in Woodside just before Christmas. The victim woke up as his assailants were stealing his belongings, and a fight ensued, leading to the stabbing death of one of… Read more »
Dec. 2, 2024 By Dean Moses Devin Spraggins stood emotionless inside a Queens courtroom Monday as state Supreme Court Justice Judge Kenneth Holder ordered him to serve 39 years to life behind bars after being found guilty of attempting to murder a police officer last year. While police union leaders hailed the sentence as…
July 31, 2024 By Bill Parry Detectives from the Queens Special Victims Squad arrested a Long Island City man on Saturday, July 13 for sexually assaulting two girls while he worked as a counselor for the city’s Police Athletic League in Jamaica. Aaron Gafur, 27, from 10th Street at the Queensbridge Houses, was booked at… Read more »
July 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A delivery truck driver from Manhattan was indicted by a Queens grand jury for a hit-and-run collision that killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her little sister near I.S. 125 in Woodside on the last day of school. Boubacar Barry, 28, of Broome Street in lower Manhattan was arraigned… Read more »
July 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Bronx man for striking an e-bike rider and speeding away while evading police during a car chase through the streets of Astoria earlier this month. Harold Vega, 46, of Jackson Avenue in the Mott Haven section, was arraigned Tuesday in Queens Supreme Court… Read more »
July 10, 2024 By Bill Parry A Long Island man is criminally charged for being part of a crew that committed a violent gunpoint robbery at a Jackson Heights jewelry store last December, during which the store owner was shot. Ildemar Chirinos-Torres, 29, of Freeport, was arraigned Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court on an indictment… Read more »
July 10, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted six individuals on charges of attempted gang assault and related crimes for attacking police officers who were checking on the welfare of three unattended children riding bikes before dawn outside a Long Island City migrant shelter last month. The cops from the 114th… Read more »
July 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A breakthrough was reached just days after tenants of a Sunnyside apartment complex filed a lawsuit against their building’s landlord stemming from their displacement following a 5-alarm fire in December. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and A&E Real Estate, the landlord, announced a plan Monday to provide 22 tenants… Read more »