Two Men Swipe $3,500 From Shopper in Front of Jackson Heights Grocery Store: NYPD

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.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Dean Moses

Nina Rothschild, 60, stood in Queens court on Thursday and stared down the man convicted of beating her in the head some 13 times with a hammer and asked one question: “Why me?”

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.

July 10, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

NYC Parks officials and community leaders gathered on Wednesday to celebrate the long-awaited completion of an $8.5 million reconstruction of Rainey Park, a popular waterfront green space in Astoria.

Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly flashed a 13-year-old girl on a Queens subway train last month.

The victim was riding a southbound E train approaching the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station at around 1 p.m. on Monday, June 30, when she saw a stranger exposing himself to her, police said Wednesday. The perpetrator ran off the train at the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station and fled in an unknown direction. The youngster was not injured during her encounter with the stranger.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Queens saw a year-over-year increase in the median sales price of co-ops, condos, and one-to-three-family homes during the second quarter of 2025, even as both inventory and the number of closed sales declined, according to a report by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

July 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez and representatives from the office of Assembly Member and Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani toured the Queensboro Plaza subway station Tuesday to view new accessibility features installed by the MTA at the Long Island City station.