Update: Ridgewood Woman, 63, Found: NYPD

Apr. 28, 2025 By Colum Motherway

A new kind of magic is coming to Ridgewood next month in the form of ForbHIDDEN People: An Elven Burlesque.

A Brooklyn woman was struck and killed by a motorcyclist while crossing a busy intersection near Forest Park in Glendale on Friday afternoon.

Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian on Woodhaven Boulevard at Myrtle Avenue at 2:20 p.m., where they found the victim lying on the roadway, with trauma to her head and body.

Apr. 28, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. delivered his third annual State of the Borough address at Queens Theatre on Friday, April 25, outlining his administration’s efforts over the past year across education, health, the environment, social services and economic development.

Apr. 28, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Award-winning harpist Brandee Younger will bring her genre-defying sound to Flushing Town Hall on Saturday, May 3, performing alongside her trio at the historic venue in Flushing.

Apr. 25, 2025 By Ramy Mahmoud

Members of the Italian-American community in Ridgewood held their annual Good Friday procession on the evening of April 18, continuing a decades-long tradition that brings together religious and cultural groups from across the borough.

April 25, 2025 By Bill Parry

A Long Island man turned himself in at the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills on Friday morning after a Queens grand jury indicted him for the murder of a motorcyclist from Astoria during a fatal road rage incident in Rego Park.

Apr. 25, 2025 By Phil Wong

New York City is at a crossroads—and our community knows it. From rising crime to overdevelopment, from classrooms focused on politics instead of academics, to congestion pricing that punishes working families, it’s clear City Hall has lost touch with the people it’s supposed to serve.

An off-duty NYPD cop from Briarwood was arrested on Thursday morning and booked at the 102nd Precinct in South Ozone Park for allegedly sending sexually explicit content via an online app to an undercover officer posing online as a 14-year-old girl.

Police Officer Travis DeSouza, 35, of Van Wyck Expressway, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on the night of April 24 on a criminal complaint charging him with attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors, official misconduct, and other related crimes, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday.

Apr. 25, 2025 By Colum Motherway

Council Member Robert Holden has introduced two new pieces of legislation that target fire hydrant misuse and abusive rodeo practices. 

Apr. 25, 2025 By Czarinna Andres