Jun. 30, 2024 By Janno Lieber This was supposed to be the week we turned on the congestion pricing system. As we all know, that’s no longer happening – at least for the moment. A few weeks ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered a temporary pause on tolling, and last week the MTA Board acknowledged…
Jun. 29, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Cops in Queens are looking for the suspect who shot a young woman near a public playground on Friday night. Police sources said the gun violence broke out at about 8:58 p.m. on June 28 near the corner of 155th Street and 65th Avenue, across the way from…
Jun. 28, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams capped off another contentious round of city budget negotiations on Friday by shaking hands on a tentative $112.4 billion Fiscal Year 2025 spending plan that restores many of the mayor’s unpopular cuts. The not-yet-finalized budget deal comes just two…
Jun. 28, 2024 By Bill Parry
It took nearly half a decade, but the NYPD has finally closed a Queens cold case investigation into a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a South Ozone Park senior in the 106th Precinct in 2019.
Jun. 28, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The Queens County Farm Museum has opened its seasonal farmstands on its site in Floral Park and at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Richmond Hill. Farm-fresh fruits and vegetables will be available at these farmstands until November. Located at 134-20 Jamaica Ave., the farmstand at the Jamaica Hospital…
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Jun. 28, 2024 By Bronx Times Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson joined by Mistress of Ceremonies Juanita Lara — development director at BronxNet Television — and a recipient of the Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) grant, recognized outstanding leaders in the Bronx and New York City’s Caribbean community at the Andrew Freedman Home on Tuesday….
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Jun. 28, 2024 By Anthony Medina A familiar face to Community Board 6 is stepping into her new official role as district manager starting next month with the experience and know-how to help bring resources to Forest Hills and Rego Park residents. Christine Nolan, a steadfast member of Community Board 6 and its neighbors for…
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Jun. 28, 2024 By Athena Dawson Family members and school leaders gathered to celebrate P.S. 120Q’s kindergarten moving-up ceremony on Tuesday, June 18 in Flushing. The eager students performed songs and dances for the audience at their stepping-up ceremony, complete with matching t-shirts and animal headbands. Almost all of the K-2nd grade students at P.S….
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Jun. 28, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Queens grand jury indicted the son of rapper Remy Ma and another man for a 2021 murder-for-hire of a reputed Astoria drug kingpin in South Jamaica.
Jun. 28, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams have agreed to expand eligibility for a program that provides low-income New Yorkers with half-priced MetroCards in the upcoming city budget, an increase that still falls short of the one desired by the speaker and transit advocates, sources familiar…