May. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry An early morning two-alarm fire ripped through a home in South Jamaica Monday morning. The blaze broke out just before 5 a.m. on May 15 and arriving units encountered heavy fire from the first floor and second floors in the house, located at 131-10 142nd St., one block east…
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May. 15, 2023 By Paul Frangipane Overdressed sheep lined up for their annual trimmings on Saturday, May 13, as the Queens County Farm Museum hosted its much-anticipated Sheep Shearing Festival. The farm’s fluffy residents were in desperate need of a shearing on the warm and humid day to prepare for the summer weather ahead. The…
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May. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry A tragic house fire in Jamaica claimed the life of a 1-year-old boy on Sunday, May 14. Firefighters valiantly rescued the toddler and his family after they were trapped in the attic as a three-alarm blaze tore through a two-and-a-half story home at 144-12 106th Ave., one block east…
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May. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry The city has completed a $700,000 restoration project at Hook Creek Park in southeast Queens. NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue joined officials from the Department of Environmental Protection, National Audubon Society, members of Community Board 13, and Eastern Queens Alliance President Barbara Brown at the park in Rosedale on…
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May. 15, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb Police are searching for the crook who is believed to have committed a string of grand larcenies, having stolen credit cards belonging to several straphangers on subways across Queens in April and May. Police say the first incident took place just after midnight on April 3 on a southbound…
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May. 14, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki Police in Queens cuffed one of their own on Saturday on charges that he sexually assaulted a woman in a cab. Daniel Oh, 37, was booked on counts of forcible touching, assault and sexual abuse for the incident which occurred at around 5:45 a.m. on May 13 in…
May. 13, 2023 By Councilman Shekar Krishnan Melinda Katz and I haven’t always seen eye to eye. In the contentious 2019 Democratic primary election for Queens District Attorney, I publicly supported Tiffany Cabán, the public defender candidate, over Katz, then the borough president. After Katz won and took office, I opposed her prosecution of a…
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May. 12, 2023 By Ethan Stark-Miller The attorneys for Jordan Neely’s family said that the manslaughter charge filed by the Manhattan District Attorney against Daniel Penny was too lenient and the former marine should have been hit with murder. The attorneys, in a press conference held Friday morning shortly after Penny’s arrest, said that…
May. 12, 2023 By Bill Parry A Far Rockaway man on May 11 was criminally charged with attempted murder and other crimes in connection with a shootout earlier this month that sent bullets crashing into a neighborhood yeshiva and two parked cars, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Jeffrey Morel, 31, of Brookhaven Avenue,…
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May. 12, 2023 By Ethan Marshall The Applebee’s at the Bay Terrace Shopping Center will soon be closing its doors for good after 27 years. The restaurant had allegedly failed to pay rent over the last two years, leading to its closure. According to Cord Meyer Development Company, which owns the Bay Terrace Shopping Center,…
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