Aug. 19, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Mayor Eric Adams has announced that all city beaches will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday due to hazardous conditions associated with Hurricane Erin. The huge storm, which is moving closer to the eastern seaboard, is currently off the coast of North Carolina, creating waves of 20 feet…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Jessica Militello In Jackson Heights at 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon, Roosevelt Avenue is buzzing with energy as commuters file in and out of subway cars and onto the street and cars and trucks grapple to get down the busy road. The street is filled with rows of shops…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Ethan Stark-Miller Democratic mayoral nominee and frontrunner Zohran Mamdani remains comfortably ahead in the five-way general election race for mayor — and across several scenarios in which one or more of his rivals drop out, a Gotham Polling and AARP survey released Tuesday revealed. The poll of 1,376 likely New…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Athena Dawson The MTA has relaunched its Customer Ambassador Program on Monday, Aug 18, continuing the largest customer outreach program in the transit agency’s history. QNS spoke exclusively with acting NYCT Senior Vice President of Buses Chris Pangilinan outside of the Jackson Heights/74 St-Broadway subway station about the second phase of…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Elected officials in western Queens have outlined their support for the Department of Transportation’s planned protected bike lanes underneath the elevated subway tracks on 31st Street after the New York State Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction preventing the plan from going forward. Council Member Tiffany Cabán, Assembly…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Bill Parry FDNY fire marshals have determined that a Murray Hill house fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery on Sunday evening. The FDNY responded to a report of a basement fire at 164-18 Pidgeon Meadow Rd., just before 7:30 p.m., where firefighters discovered approximately 100 lithium-ion batteries burning in…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Robert Holden co-hosted a rally outside City Hall last week to call on the City Council to pass Ryder’s Law, which aims to phase out horse-drawn carriages in Central Park and replace them with electric alternatives. Holden joined Manhattan Council Members Erik Bottcher and Chris Marte…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Ethan Marshall The Shops at Skyview held a culinary lab event featuring multiple food workshops, a meal demonstration and a lunchbox competition on Thursday, Aug. 14, on the fourth level of the mall, located at 40-24 College Point Blvd. in Flushing. The culinary lab is part of a multi-week “Skyview…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Dean Moses New York’s Finest swore an oath to protect the city, but many say they didn’t sign up for all this. Law enforcement sources are sounding the alarm, charging that the NYPD is losing cops at record levels to other departments, not only leaving the city woefully unprotected but…
Aug. 19, 2025 By Bill Parry A South Jamaica man was stabbed to death in front of his neighbor’s home just down the block from his own house near Baisley Pond Park in broad daylight during the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 16. Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call…