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War on Roosevelt Avenue: Sex workers push back as NYPD, City Hall cracks down on prostitution and illegal vendors in Queens

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Oct. 22, 2024 By Dean Moses The raids continue on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue a week after City Hall declared war on the prostitution and other illegal businesses that have long lined the thoroughfare. Late Monday night, cops shuttered an alleged brothel located at 90-25 Roosevelt Ave. in Corona as part of the “Operation Restore…

Bike-riding suspect sought for late-night groping incident in Ozone Park: NYPD

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Oct. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park are looking for a cyclist who accosted a 21-year-old woman as she walked at night near the intersection of Cross Bay Boulevard and Liberty Avenue. The incident occurred just after midnight on Monday, Oct. 7, as the stranger rode up…

Alleged squatter indicted for illegally occupying Howard Beach home: DA

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Oct. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry A Hollis woman was indicted by a Queens grand jury on charges of burglary, criminal trespass and other related crimes for illegally occupying a single-family home in Howard Beach. Laurel Bay, 49, of 198th Street, was arraigned Thursday in Queens Supreme Court on a five-count indictment for allegedly…

Flushing woman sentenced to 27 years in prison for manslaughter and burglary: DA

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Oct. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry Flushing resident Haiyan Deng was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday to 27 years in prison for killing a man in her apartment and a related burglary in September 2021. Deng, 34, of 39th Avenue, pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in the first degree and burglary…