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Rego Park celebrates 100-year anniversary with walking tour

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Oct. 24, 2023 By Rachel Butler Rego Park celebrated its 100-year anniversary with a walking tour of the area organized by the Rego-Park Forest Preservation Council and the Historic Districts Council on Saturday, Oct. 21. The event took place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and was led by Historic Districts Council Executive Director Frampton Tolbert and joined by Rego-Park Forest Preservation Council Chairman Michael Perlman on the tour, which highlighted apartment buildings from the 1920s and 1930s and single family homes that make up the historic area, as well as community landmarks in Rego Park. The tour, which began on…
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NYPD investigating two incidents of antisemitic vandalism in Rego Park, Forest Hills

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Mar. 21, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating two incidents of antisemitic graffiti that was reported on Tuesday, March 21, in the neighborhoods of Rego Park and Forest Hills.  On Monday, March 20, at 9:21 p.m., two swastikas were found scrawled on the sidewalk and street outside of J.H.S….
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Convicted Rego Park money launderer gets more than a decade behind bars: Feds

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Mar. 20, 2023 By Bill Parry A Rego Park businessman will spend more than a decade in federal prison for laundering millions of dollars obtained from computer hacking, healthcare fraud, defrauding a government agency and operating an international unlicensed money-transmitting business. Djonibek Rahmankulov, 35, was sentenced to 121 months in prison on March 17 after…
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