Roast & Co. Opens its Third Eatery, Second Kew Gardens Location

Jun. 4, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst has opened a new Business Services Center at 90-02 Queens Blvd., relocating several non-clinical departments off its main campus in a move to increase clinical capacity and improve patient care.

Jun. 4, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Home prices more than doubled in 24 neighborhoods across New York City over the past decade—including seven in Queens—according to a new report from real estate research site PropertyShark that highlights dramatic shifts in the city’s housing market between 2014 and 2024.

Jun. 4, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The Filipino American Democratic Club of New York (FADCNY) has announced its first-ever slate of endorsements for the 2025 New York City primary election, signaling a growing political presence for one of the city’s fastest-growing Asian American communities.

Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a couple who robbed a subway rider at the Woodhaven Boulevard station near the Queens Center Mall on the night of Thursday, May 29.

A 45-year-old victim was walking through the station at around 9:15 p.m. when he was approached by a man and a woman. When she asked him for money, her partner punched the victim in the back of his shoulder. The two strangers forcibly removed $1,500 from his pockets and fled the station onto Woodhaven Boulevard in an unknown direction. The victim sustained minor injuries but was not hospitalized after the encounter, police said Tuesday.

Jun. 4, 2025 By Nelson A. King

Firebrand singjay Queen Ifrica was all smiles recently as she received a striking portrait of herself captured by award-winning Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based photographer Marlon “Ajamu” Myrie.

Jun. 3, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

As New York City grapples with the ongoing housing crisis, CityFHEPS, a city-funded voucher program for low-income households, has played an increasingly prominent role in securing housing for some of the poorest residents in the city. But the program, which has grown astronomically since its inception in 2018, is locked in legal turmoil amid a years-long battle to expand it.

Jun. 3, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Jun. 3, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Selfhelp Community Services celebrated National Older Americans Month in May with a series of musical performances, recognition ceremonies and community gatherings across its five Older Adult Centers in Queens.

A Forest Hills man is criminally charged with animal cruelty for allegedly keeping four dozen dogs in deplorable conditions inside his cramped one-bedroom apartment at 102-45 62nd Road.

Isaac Yadgarov, 37, was arraigned Monday in Queens Criminal Court on a 96-count criminal complaint charging him with animal neglect and abuse after the dogs were rescued from inside his squalid apartment by the Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), and the NYPD on May 8 after Yadgarov was evicted from the apartment building.

Jun. 2, 2025 By Dashiell Allen and QNS News Team

Thousands filled the streets of Jackson Heights on Sunday, June 1, for the 32nd annual Queens Pride Parade and Festival, launching Pride Month in New York City with a resounding message of “defiant joy” and political urgency.