Jul. 23, 2025 By Ethan Marshall City Council Member Vickie Paladino, NYC Parks Commissioner Iris Rodriguez-Rosa and other members of the Queens community gathered to celebrate the completion of two projects at Francis Lewis Park in Whitestone and Powell’s Cove Park in College Point on Tuesday, July 15. Repainting was completed for the park’s basketball courts and…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The 35th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival is set to return to Flushing Meadows Corona Park next month, bringing fun and lively boat races to Meadow Lake for the largest multicultural festival in New York state. The festival, which is one of the largest dragon boat festivals…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct are looking for a suspect who allegedly robbed a Sunnyside bank in broad daylight, making off with a paltry sum of money on the afternoon of Thursday, July 17. Police say the perpetrator walked into the Capital One Bank at 40-20 Queens Blvd.…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Bill Parry A former Amazon employee at a Maspeth facility is accused of stealing nearly 2,000 pairs of work boots and sneakers worth $224,000 from a program meant to provide free safety footwear to new workers and reselling them online. Asraf Mohamed, 33, of Forbell Street in the City Line…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Athena Dawson An international airline carrier is coming to JFK’s New Terminal One. Operators of the New Terminal One announced on Wednesday, July 23, that Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, will begin a partnership with the soon-to-open terminal. Once Gulf Air returns to the U.S.…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki The 2025 New York City mayor’s race has been unusual to say the least. The sitting Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, is now running as an independent in the general election after skipping the party’s primary. That contest saw 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani soundly defeat former Gov. Andrew…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Jessica Militello Get ready for bold flavors and upscale vibes with the opening of Blu Ember just inside the newly opened Westin Flushing LaGuardia. The new restaurant, located at 137-49 Northern Blvd. in Downtown Flushing, opened at the beginning of July, bringing a blend of Asian and American flavors, from…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Athena Dawson A sunny and sandy Rockaway tradition is resuming this August. The office of Council Member Joann Ariola, in partnership with NYC Parks and the Rockaway Times, is celebrating National Sandcastle Day with the Rockaway Sandcastle Contest on Saturday, Aug. 2. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., participants of…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Ben Guttmann, the new executive director of the Queens Economic Development Corporation (QEDC), plans to promote the borough as the “best place to do business, the best place to grow a business and the best place to spend your money as a tourist.” Guttmann, who took the reins…
Jul. 23, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Council Member Robert Holden described the acquittal of New York City carriage driver Ian McKeever as a “travesty of justice” after McKeever was cleared of animal cruelty charges related to the collapse of a horse in August 2022. Prosecutors had argued that McKeever relentlessly drove the horse —…