Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are looking for two young men who broke into Carnesecca Arena at the campus of St. John’s University in Hillcrest on Tuesday night. The suspects slipped into the office of basketball coach Rick Pitino, where they stole his personal memorabilia,…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry A Richmond Hill man was arrested on Tuesday night and criminally charged with murder for beating his aunt to death with a broom at her South Jamaica home earlier that day. Alexander Fleming, 29, of 91st Street, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night on a…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Shane O’Brien A small number of protesters gathered at Citi Field Wednesday afternoon to campaign against the New York Mets’ use of facial recognition technology at ticket points throughout the baseball ground. The protest, organized by Fight for the Future, Encode Justice NY and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP),…
Aug. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry The FDNY battled a fire at a Richmond Hill e-bike store early Thursday morning for the second time in 17 months. Once again, a Hazmat unit was called on to deal with the presence of lithium-ion batteries after one of the batteries caused the blaze that engulfed the…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood are looking for armed robbers who posed as maintenance workers to gain entry into a home, where they stole thousands of dollars in cash and property before driving off in a getaway vehicle. The heist occurred at around 2 p.m. on…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Anthony Medina Over the past two months, mosquitoes in more than 40 Queens neighborhoods—and additional areas across New York City—have tested positive for the West Nile Virus, according to the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Four residents from Queens and Manhattan were confirmed to have contracted West Nile…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Bill Parry A 73-year-old man was punched out by a stranger in broad daylight in Flushing on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 10, and police from the 109th Precinct are still looking for his attacker, who remains at large nearly two weeks after the beatdown. The senior was walking in…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Athena Dawson The king of dancehall is coming to Queens. Sean Paul, a prominent Jamaican dancehall singer, rapper and DJ, will headline a concert as part of the Rise Up NYC concert series on Saturday, Aug. 24. The free concert will be held at Roy Wilkins Park, located on Merrick…
Aug. 20, 2024 By Athena Dawson Overgrown medians and trash-strewn streets across Queens are raising quality-of-life concerns among residents throughout the borough. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards held a press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 13, urging city agencies to address the neglected medians throughout the borough. Standing in front of an overgrown median at…
Aug. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry Disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody on Rikers Island pending the outcome of his upcoming retrial in Manhattan on rape and sexual assault charges, scheduled to begin in November. Weinstein was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Monday morning during an administrative function under…