Dec. 6, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Several lucky New Yorkers are celebrating big wins this week, as the New York Lottery announced multiple winners, including third-prize Powerball tickets and Take 5 top-prize tickets. The Wednesday, Dec. 4 Powerball drawing yielded three third-prize tickets, while the Dec. 5 Take 5 midday drawing produced two top-prize…
Oct. 6, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for the suspect who shot and killed a man on Sunday morning. Police said the homicide happened at about 3 a.m. on Oct. 6 in an apartment building at 101-66 125th St. in South Richmond Hill. Officers from the 102nd Precinct,…
Aug. 25, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters in Queens battled a two-alarm fire at a pair of commercial buildings early on Sunday morning where more than a dozen drums of highly flammable chemicals had been stored. FDNY sources said the blaze broke out at about 12:56 a.m. on Aug. 25 inside 133-02 101st Ave.…
Feb. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry
Mayor Eric Adams confirmed that dozens of people, believed to be migrants, were found living illegally inside a commercial business in South Richmond Hill on Monday afternoon.
Sep. 2, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki Police arrested an upstate New York man who was subsequently charged with murder one day after an early-morning shooting in South Richmond Hill that left a 31-year-old man dead. Law enforcement sources said the murder happened at about 4:19 a.m. on Sept. 2 near a home on 125th Street,…
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May. 26, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb and Lloyd Mitchell The FDNY is investigating a fire that tore through a vacant two-and-a-half-story wood frame dwelling in South Richmond Hill on May 25. The FDNY responded to a call regarding the blaze at 94-54 Lefferts Blvd. at approximately 5:15 p.m. with 12 units consisting of 60 firefighters….
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Apr. 18, 2023 By Carlotta Mohamed April is Autism Awareness month and Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. is partnering with Community Board 9 for a community walk event to support those with autism and other developmental disabilities. The public is invited to participate in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Walk at Phil ‘Scooter’ Rizzuto Park/Smokey Oval…
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March 7, 2023 By Michael Dorgan A South Richmond Hill man has been charged with murder in connection with a fatal stabbing in Woodhaven last week. Semair Taylor, 25, was arrested Monday, March 6, and charged with murder and other crimes for stabbing 25-year-old Michael Izquierdo to death on Feb. 27, according to authorities. Izquierdo,… Read more »
Feb. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD on Feb. 27 released a new surveillance video that shows a suspected gunman who is wanted in connection with a fatal shooting in front of a Richmond Hill nightclub near Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto Park in October. Police from the 102nd Precinct responded to a 911 call of…
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