Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry Two Woodside brothers were arraigned Friday in Queens Criminal Court on charges of first-degree assault and strangulation in an attack on an off-duty cop during a road rage dispute on Queens Boulevard on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Shawn Rivera, 27, and Edwin Rivera, 32, both of 79th Street in Woodside,…
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Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was criminally charged with murder in the cold-blooded fatal shooting of a Florida man outside a St. Albans nightclub in April. Christopher King, 31, of Essex Street in Elmont, was arraigned Sept. 1 in Queens Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with murder in…
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Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry
Sep. 1, 2023 By Anthony Medina Stand outside on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale and Ridgewood long enough and it’s easy to find an e-bike or motorbike on the road. More often than not, those motorbikes use the sidewalk as an secondary road to evade heavy traffic or even ignore traffic signs. It’s the many unregistered,…
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Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry Councilwoman Nantasha Williams hosted a “check ceremony” at Harvard Playground in Jamaica Hills on Aug. 30 to commemorate her allocation of $2.755 million in capital funding for the reconstruction and revitalization of the playground that was heavily damaged during Hurricane Ida in August 2021. The project was a priority request of Ida flood victims in the neighborhood who sought further city investments in their community following the disaster. “One of the greatest things we can do as council members is to allocate capital funding to our schools and our parks, which are institutions that…
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Aug. 31, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed The Queens County Farm Museum in Floral Park is inviting New Yorkers to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Queens County Fair beginning Friday, Sept. 8, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, live DJ and a Motown concert. “We are just so excited to welcome New Yorkers to Queens County Farm…
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Aug. 31, 2023 By Bill Parry MSG Sports and MSG Entertainment are partnering with a number of Queens elected leaders and community organizations to provide much-needed school supplies to get them ready for the beginning of the school year. MSG’s eighth annual donation kit program distributes more than $100,000 worth of Knicks and Rangers branded…
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Aug. 30, 2023 By Bill Parry
Aug. 30, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed Flushing Town Hall has been awarded a major $300,000 grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation to administer a new regrant program to support Queens-based arts and culture nonprofit organizations. With the Gilman Foundation’s funds, Flushing Town Hall will award 25 grants of $10,000 each for General Operating Support —…
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Aug. 30, 2023 By Bill Parry An Astoria woman was arrested by federal agents and charged with assaulting one of their own with a karate chop that was caught on surveillance video at JFK Airport last week. Emilia Mathias, 57, of Steinway Street in Astoria, had just returned from a trip to Brazil and was making her way through Terminal 4 when she was stopped by a female U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer on Tuesday, Aug. 22, according to the criminal complaint. The agent told Mathias that she could not enter the secured area and tried to get…
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