Top-Prize Take 5 ticket sold at Queens Blvd. deli in Elmhurst

Jul. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

The second quarter of 2025 marked the first time that the average price for one-to-three-family homes in Queens eclipsed $1 million, according to a report by the real estate agency Brown Harris Stevens.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The winning ticket, worth $16,105, was sold at CPL Works Inc., dba BP Petrol Station, located at 34-51 Bell Blvd. A second ticket with the same prize amount was sold in the Bronx at 165th & Anderson Superette Inc., at 1055A Anderson Ave.

July 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

The Hunters Point Parks Conservancy (HPPC) is hosting its 10th year of free programming for children this summer in Hunter’s Point South Park and Gantry Plaza State Park on the Long Island City waterfront, providing free family-friendly programming every morning at 10 a.m. across July and August.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Jessica Militello

A taste of France has arrived in Forest Hills with the opening of Tourmaline, a new restaurant offering a refined and seasonal dining experience on Metropolitan Avenue.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Dean Moses and QNS News Team

A Queens woman who survived a brutal hammer attack in a subway station in 2022 confronted her assailant in court Thursday, demanding answers and finding some measure of justice as he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller

On the heels of endorsing Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral general election, U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan/Bronx) on Thursday urged fellow Democrats who have been hesitant to back the democratic socialist to get on board with his campaign for City Hall.

New details have emerged in the case of the Hollis man accused luring a 14-year-old boy into his car in St. Albans and then allegedly raping him on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 1.

Virgilio Taveras, 63, of Hillside Avenue, was arrested by detectives from the Queens Special Victims Squad two days later and booked at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows. Taveras was arraigned on the Fourth of July in Queens Criminal Court on a complaint charging him with rape in the second degree, luring a child as an E felony, endangering the welfare of a child and other related crimes.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Dozens gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Queens Borough Hall on Wednesday, July 9, to celebrate the completion of a major renovation of Queens Borough Plaza.

A Springfield Gardens man and a passenger in his car died after they were involved in a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash on the Belt Parkway near Kennedy Airport on the morning of Saturday, July 5.

Noah Thompson, 24, of 179th Street, was behind the wheel of a white BMW 428i traveling eastbound on the Belt Parkway in Howard Beach at 6:05 a.m. when he failed to navigate the roadway approaching the Nassau Expressway exit.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Julie Won and her husband, Eugene Noh, are denouncing what they call “sexist” and “misogynistic” scrutiny of their relationship following Noh’s appointment as campaign manager for Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election bid.