Jul. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-LGBTQ attack on a woman in Far Rockaway on the night of Tuesday, June 24, and three suspects remain at large. The 28-year-old victim was walking in front of 18-26 Village Lane just north of Mott Avenue at around…
Jun. 20, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force launched a probe into multiple death threats made against Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani after his district office at 24-08 32nd St. in Astoria received four expletive-filled phone voicemails, on various dates, making threatening anti-Muslim statements by an unknown individual, including a threat…
May 1, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted an Astoria man on hate crime and other charges for allegedly targeting Immaculate Conception Church on Ditmars Boulevard in a series of disturbing incidents last month, including the desecration of a religious statue and an assault on a parishioner. Jose Rodriguez, 38, of… Read more »
Apr. 30, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a case of criminal mischief in Bellerose during the afternoon of Sunday, April 20. Police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village reported that an unidentified man walked onto the victim’s property in the vicinity of Little Neck Parkway and…
April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Asian assault that occurred on board an R train in Long Island City on the night of Wednesday, April 16. A 29-year-old woman was riding a northbound R train approaching Queens Plaza subway station just before 7 p.m. when an… Read more »
April 10, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force arrested an Astoria man on Wednesday for vandalizing a religious statue and menacing a priest inside the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Sunday. Jose Rodriguez, 38, from Shore Boulevard in the Marine Terrace apartments, was taken into custody by police from the 114th… Read more »
April 9, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an act of vandalism inside the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Astoria on Sunday. Police from the 114th Precinct in Astoria responded to the church at 21-47 29th St. along Ditmars Boulevard just after 1 p.m. on April 6. Father Hughes… Read more »
Feb. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an antisemitic assault on a subway train in Jamaica Hills during the morning rush on Monday, Jan. 13. The 27-year-old victim in the attack was onboard a northbound F train that was approaching the Parsons Boulevard subway station at 7…
Dec. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is now searching for two vandals who scrawled a swastika on the front of the Elmhurst Educational Campus just south of the Long Island Rail Road tracks back in September. Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst reported that on the night…
Nov. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating after a man was caught on camera shouting anti-immigrant rhetoric at a group of men, including a 14-year-old girl in Bayside, on the night of Wednesday, Nov. 6. Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside reported that the suspect approached…