Mar. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are looking for a burglar who allegedly targeted a commercial establishment inside the New World Mall and stole tens of thousands of dollars more than a month ago.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Queens man and his five co-conspirators from Brooklyn were arrested by federal agents on Tuesday and charged with smuggling raw goose and duck intestines from China for sale to New York City restaurants and consumers.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Bill Parry
A 19-year-old male from Kew Gardens Hills died Thursday morning, three days after he was shot in the head by two gunmen at the Pomonok Houses NYCHA complex just a couple of blocks away from his home on 71st Avenue.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Bill Parry
A 63-year-old woman from Lower Manhattan was struck and killed by a motorist as she rode an electric scooter near Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Wednesday morning.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Bill Parry The massive Willets Point redevelopment project passed another key milestone Wednesday when the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve phase two of the plan that calls for a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium, 1,400 units of affordable housing, a 250-room hotel, a 650-seat public school, 80,000 square feet of retail…
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Mar. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police made a horrific discovery at a Bayswater home in the Rockaways early Monday morning when they executed a search warrant.
Mar. 6, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Revel, the electric vehicle company that focuses on EV transit and charging hubs, has inked a lease agreement in East Elmhurst to develop the nation’s largest airport EV fast charging station adjacent to LaGuardia Airport (LGA). The charging station is slated to go up at 90-10 Ditmars Blvd., where the Courtyard by Marriott LaGuardia hotel is located, and will feature 48 200kW charging stalls that will be available to the public. The stations will be accessible from Ditmars Boulevard and 90th Street and are expected to be operational in the first half of 2025….
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Mar. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are looking for a bald-headed burglar who pretended to be a priest to gain entry to the rectory at American Martyrs Roman Catholic Church in Oakland Gardens.
Mar. 5, 2024 By Czarinna Andres In an effort to spotlight the importance of low-cost internet access, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng announced that Briteny Xu, a local medical student who benefits from the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), will join her for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night. The ACP, a federal initiative Meng helped enact in 2021, offers low-income residents a discount of up to $30 per month toward internet service. With the program’s funding set to run out as soon as April, Meng’s invitation to Xu underscores the urgent need to preserve the service. Xu,…
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Mar. 5, 2024 By Athena Dawson William Lopez, a 55-year-old Puerto Rican born Queens resident, works tirelessly to provide for his family, where he puts money aside to put his son through law school, pay for his wife’s medical needs, cover his daughter’s college tuition, as well as send money back home to relatives in…
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