Nov. 27, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The Queens Center and The Shops at Atlas Park partnered with local leaders and organizations to help brighten the holidays for families in need across the borough by distributing turkeys in the lead-up to Thanksgiving. The Queens Center, located at 90-15 Queens Blvd. in Elmhurst, gave out 900…
Nov. 12, 2024 By Czarinna Andres In a step to end the city’s battle with “ghost cars”—vehicles with counterfeit, obscured, or missing license plates—Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar has introduced the Ghostbuster Act. The Ghostbuster Act takes a comprehensive approach to tackle ghost cars by empowering law enforcement to boot or tow vehicles with counterfeit…
Nov. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood are looking for two burglars who targeted a Glendale home in broad daylight on Friday, Nov. 1, before driving off in a BMW with a massive haul of stolen property, according to the NYPD. The two unidentified men entered a residence…
Nov. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A motorcyclist from Jamaica was killed in a crash near Mount Olivet Cemetery in Middle Village on Friday afternoon. Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision at 69th Street and Eliot Avenue at 5:15 p.m., where they found the…
Oct. 31, 2024 By sobrien Oct. 31, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Mayor Eric Adams, elected officials and members of the NYPD gathered in Woodside Thursday afternoon to issue a “cry for action” against subway surfing – the practice of riding atop moving subway carriages – following the death of a 13-year-old girl along the elevated… Read more »
Oct. 30, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The amount of reported grand larcenies across Queens dropped a significant amount across both northern and southern Queens during the 28-day period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 27, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. Another notable trend over…
Oct. 28, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_69101" align="aligncenter" width="680"] A 13-year-old girl was killed, and another was critically injured while subway surfing on the 7 train in Corona on Sunday night. (File Photo by Michael Dorgan)[/caption]
Oct. 28, 2024 By Bill Parry
Oct. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry 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…
Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood and Transit District 33. are looking for a pervert who allegedly groped a 14-year-old girl on an M train on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 6. The youngster was onboard a southbound M train approaching the Seneca Avenue subway station in…
Sep. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry Three Cambria Heights men were indicted by a Queens grand jury for a violent home invasion, burglary and kidnapping in Douglaston during the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 17. Jone Smith, 47, and brothers Ryan and Brandon Dash, 39 and 34, respectively, were arraigned in Queens Supreme…