Aug. 27, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A 10-day film festival will return to Forest Hills next month featuring more than 120 films. Festival of Cinema NYC will bring independent movies from around the world and will run from Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 at the Regal UA Midway. The festival will screen movies, documentaries, short… Read more »
Aug. 24, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A short video showcasing nearly a dozen food vendors operating at a busy public space in Corona was released last month. The video captures a diverse group of business owners and food vendors plying their trade at Corona Plaza, located at 103rd St. and Roosevelt Ave. They are shown… Read more »
Aug. 19, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A Flushing couple who allegedly left their one-year-old child locked in a sweltering hot car for an hour while they went high-end shopping have been charged with reckless endangerment. Jingcai Zhou, 34, and Lu Lu, 28, left the toddler alone in the back seat of their Mercedes Benz at… Read more »
Aug. 19, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A man who triggered an amber alert in Elmhurst yesterday for allegedly trying to abduct his 7-year-old daughter has been arrested on a different charge—attempting to rape the child’s mother. Jean Puello, 40, allegedly tried to rape his daughter’s mother at the woman’s Grand Avenue apartment – near Van… Read more »
Aug. 18, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Police are looking for two hate-filled teens involved in ripping down a pride flag from a home in Fresh Meadows earlier this month and stomping on it. Video footage released by the NYPD shows the suspects on a motorized scooter pulling up outside a house, located on 190th St.,… Read more »
Aug. 9, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Curbside composting will be making a return in the fall. The Dept. of Sanitation (DSNY) announced last week that it will begin its free service of collecting food scraps, food-soiled paper and other organic waste from outside homes and residential buildings in select areas sometime in October. Curbside composting… Read more »
Aug. 10, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Police are looking for a suspect who punched two men in an apparent anti-gay attack on a subway train in Long Island City last month and then slugged a woman who tried to stop the beat down. The suspect approached two 19-year-old men on a Jamaica-bound E train at… Read more »
Aug. 9, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for a mob of teenagers who chased two middle-aged men down a Ridgewood street last month before clobbering them with baseball bats. The victims, aged 50 and 60, were surrounded by about a dozen teenagers at the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Madison Street at around… Read more »
Aug. 5, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Undocumented New Yorkers who lost their jobs in the midst of the pandemic and did not qualify for federal unemployment benefits can now apply for financial relief thanks to a new state fund. The fund, called the Excluded Workers Program, provides out-of-pocket workers with a payment of up to… Read more »
Aug. 4, 2021 By Michael Dorgan A Queens athlete won a silver medal for Team USA in an epic race at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday. Dalilah Muhammad, who hails from Jamaica, Queens, finished second in the women’s 400-meter hurdle final – falling agonizingly short of clinching a gold medal. Muhammad, who was the defending Olympic… Read more »