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Queens Night Market to close 2024 Season with Halloween-themed finale offering big prizes for best costumes
Queens Night Market to close 2024 Season with Halloween-themed finale offering big prizes for best costumes

Oct. 17, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

The Queens Night Market is set to wrap up its 2024 season with a Halloween-themed finale on Saturday, Oct. 26.

The event at Flushing Meadows Corona Park will feature trick-or-treating, family-friendly entertainment, live performances and its highly anticipated annual costume contests. This year, the excitement is elevated with an impressive lineup of prizes up for grabs.

Costumed attendees can compete for various standout prizes donated by local sponsors. These include a baseball signed by New York Mets designated hitter JD Martinez, VIP concert tickets from Forest Hills Stadium, two roundtrip flights from JetBlue and four Disney on Ice tickets courtesy of Citizens. Other prizes include $100 gift certificates to Kiko Milano, JD Sports and Zara from Queens Center Mall, a one-night stay at the Hyatt Regency JFK, courtesy of Resorts World NYC, and family ticket packs to the Tianyu Lights Festival.

Former FBI agent from Queens Village charged with possessing arsenals of illegal ghost guns: DA

A former FBI agent from Queens Village is criminally charged with possessing an arsenal of illegal ghost guns and a stockpile of ammunition after law enforcement raided his home and a storage unit in Port Washington, L.I.

Scott Chiang, 53, was arraigned Friday in Queens Criminal Court on a 242-count criminal complaint after the searches at the two locations uncovered 18 illegal firearms, including eight ghost guns and six assault weapons, as well as high-capacity magazines, ammo and gun manufacturing tools.

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Boy on board M train in Ridgewood punched out and robbed, suspect remains at large: NYPD

Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood and Transit District 33 are looking for the perpetrator who attacked and robbed a 13-year-old boy in broad daylight on board an M train on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

The youngster was riding in a southbound M subway car approaching the Seneca Avenue station just after noon when a stranger approached him and sucker-punched him in the head, police said on Tuesday. The boy’s assailant proceeded to forcibly remove his cell phone and headphones before running off the train inside the Seneca Avenue station. He was last seen on foot on Palmetto Street. The victim refused medical attention at the crime scene.

Richmond Hill man charged with attempted kidnapping after mother foils abduction of 2-year-old daughter: NYPD

A Richmond Hill man was arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping after he allegedly tried to abduct a 2-year-old girl at knifepoint in broad daylight at a laundromat around the corner from his home on 109th Street on Thursday, Oct. 10.

Peter Vonderhofen, 32, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court the following day on a complaint charging him with attempted kidnapping in the second degree, menacing, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal possession of a weapon.

Queens DA paralegal fired after arrest for threatening to bomb Elmhurst migrant shelter

An Elmhurst man was fired from his job as a paralegal at the Queens District Attorney’s office after he was arrested and criminally charged late last month for threatening to bomb a migrant shelter across the street from his home on 77th Street just south of Roosevelt Avenue.

Derek Klever, 27, was arrested by police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst after they executed a search warrant at his apartment at 40-37 77th St. a day after they learned of his plot to bomb the Kamway Lodge, a hostel at 40-36 77th St., that the city converted to temporarily house asylum seekers.

Illegal concert venue operating inside Elmhurst warehouse raided early Saturday morning: NYPD

The NYPD raided an illegal concert venue operating inside a warehouse across Queens Boulevard from the old Pan American Hotel early Saturday morning.

Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst responded to a 911 call of a brawl in front of a commercial business at 79-95 Barnwell Ave. just before 2 a.m. on Oct. 12. Upon arrival, officers did not find anyone fighting at the location but heard loud music emanating from a warehouse at 75-55 Albion Ave.