Aug. 19, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Southern Brooklyn and Queens beaches are closed to swimmers for the third straight day Monday because of strong rip currents and surf from Hurricane Ernesto, which continues to churn in the Atlantic. The city’s Parks Department announced the Aug. 17-18 closure for all beaches from Coney Island through the…
Aug. 13, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Jenifer Rajkumar, a Queens Democratic Assembly member and close ally of Mayor Eric Adams, officially launched her campaign in next year’s Democratic primary for city comptroller late Monday. Rajkumar announced her bid via a video posted to her new campaign website on Monday afternoon. It followed Rajkumar filing…
Aug. 12, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Two months ahead of mandatory composting in NYC, residents of Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island can get a free brown bin from the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY), the agency announced earlier this month. The secured bins are designed to hold composting material including food scraps and yard…
Aug. 9, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Police conducted a major drug bust in Queens on Thursday, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of pounds of illegal marijuana and cannabis products. The operation took place in a warehouse on Second Street in Astoria in the early morning hours of Aug. 8. Officers from the 114th…
Police conducted a major drug bust in Queens on Thursday, resulting in the seizure of hundreds of pounds of illegal marijuana and cannabis products. The operation took place in a warehouse on Second Street in Astoria in the early morning hours of Aug. 8. Officers from the 114th Precinct were responding to a burglary…
Aug. 9, 2024 By Dean Moses The NYPD held a career day at its police academy this week for more 1000 young people involved in its summer internship program with the intention of both fighting crime and offering them opportunities for the future. The academy, located in College Point, Queens, hosted the job fair…
Jul. 31, 2024 By Ben Brachfeld The MTA could face hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs each year to run the transit system stemming from the pause on congestion pricing, putting significant pressure on the budget of an agency already struggling under huge levels of fare evasion. After projecting years of balanced…
Jul. 29, 2024 By Barbara Russo-Lennon Police in Queens cuffed a man who allegedly stabbed a 23-year-old woman multiple times inside a subway station in Queens on Sunday night. Law enforcement sources said the incident occurred on the mezzanine level of the Jamaica-Van Wyck station on the E line in Richmond Hill at around 8:30…
Jul. 25, 2024 By Dean Moses Police in Queens are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a man during a robbery in a quiet neighborhood early on Thursday morning, authorities said. According to law enforcement sources, the shocking murder unfolded just after 1 a.m. on July 25 outside a home near 208th…
Jul. 22, 2024 By Dean Moses Mayor Eric Adams and FDNY officials have invested $1 million in an ad campaign designed to raise awareness on the fiery dangers of faulty lithium-ion batteries. In recent years, fires sparked by faulty lithium-ion batteries have ravaged homes, crippled communities, and devastated countless families merely because, in many…