Tag: Migrant

Queens park rape: Person of interest in custody after being assaulted, sources say

Queens park rapist suspect

Jun. 18, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki, Dean Moses and Bill Parry Police have a person of interest in custody whom they believe is the Queens park rape suspect who sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl last week in a heinous attack that shocked the city. The development occurred hours after NYPD released security camera footage…

Report from Lander suggests NYC’s migrant shelter stay limit enforced in ‘haphazard’ fashion, ‘disregarded humanity’

City Comptroller Brad Lander speaks about migrant shelter limit report

May. 9, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller City Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday excoriated Mayor Eric Adams’ 60-day shelter stay limit for migrants in a new report finding the policy has been implemented in a “haphazard and arbitrary” fashion, without proper guidelines or staffing. Lander, during a May 9 news conference outside the Row Hotel…

Eastern Queens elected officials host rally against incoming asylum-seeker tent shelter at Creedmoor

Jul. 27, 2023 By John Schilling Eastern Queens elected officials gathered with constituents inside Building #4 of the Services Now For Adult Persons (SNAP) in Queens Village on Thursday afternoon to voice their opposition to the incoming asylum seeker tent shelter on the nearby campus of the state-owned Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. The rally came just…
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