Dec. 6, 2022 By Max Murray The decade-long project to overhaul the Kew Gardens Interchange, long known for its congestion and tangled web of roadways, has been completed. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Monday the completion of the $739 million Kew Gardens Interchange project, marking the conclusion of a multi-phase undertaking by New York State to… Read more »
Dec. 5, 2022 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for two men who robbed a smoke shop at gunpoint in Forest Hills early Saturday morning and made off with $10,000 cash. The suspects allegedly carried out the robbery just after 2 a.m. on Dec. 3 at the Continental Smoke Shop, located at 107-36 71 Ave.,… Read more »
Dec. 2, 2022 Op-Ed By NYC Mayor Eric Adams It’s time to create a New York City where working New Yorkers can have safe, affordable homes, find well-paying jobs, send their children to good schools, and live close to public transportation so that they don’t have to spend hours commuting. Willets Point in Queens, previously… Read more »
Nov. 30 , 2022 By Michael Dorgan A 3-alarm fire tore through two commercial buildings in Middle Village Wednesday morning. Firefighters responded to a blaze that broke out at around 7:30 a.m. at Metro Deli, located at 67-30 Metropolitan Ave. The one-story building is situated next to the Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue subway station, near the… Read more »
Nov. 30 2022, By Michael Dorgan A 74-year-old pedestrian is dead after he was struck by a motorcycle in Rego Park Tuesday. The victim, police said, was attempting to cross the intersection at Woodhaven Boulevard and 62nd Road at around 5:10 p.m. when a 22-year-old man driving a Kawasaki motorcycle slammed into him. The motorcyclist… Read more »
Nov. 28, 2022 By Christian Murray New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed legislation today that requires the FDNY to diversify the ethnic makeup of its ranks and introduce anti-discrimination training. The mayor signed a package of five bills that aims to increase the recruitment of underrepresented groups within the department. The legislation also requires… Read more »
Nov. 22, 2022 By Michael Dorgan Three Queens council members who are members of the Commonsense Caucus say their legislative colleagues are out of touch when it comes to tackling crime and have called on them to get tough on improving public safety. Council members Bob Holden, Vickie Paladino and Joann Ariola want their fellow… Read more »
Nov. 22, 2022 By Christian Murray A Queens man who threatened to shoot a motorist in Bayside over a parking spot has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Jaquan Adams, 29, of Cambria Heights, was sentenced Monday after being convicted in September on gun-related charges for threatening a motorist just before midnight on May… Read more »
Nov. 21 2022 By Michael Dorgan The police are looking for two suspects who robbed a 26-year-old man at gunpoint on a subway train in Kew Gardens just after midnight Thursday morning. The suspects, two men, approached the victim while he was riding a southbound F train as it approached the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens subway… Read more »
This article was originally published by The CITY on Nov. 21, 2022 By Greg B. Smith, Rachel Holliday Smith, Claudia Irizarry Aponte and Suhail Bhat After a fast-moving fire in a luxury Manhattan tower called Rivercourt injured dozens of tenants and triggered a daring high-rise rescue, fire officials made clear that the cause was an increasingly common… Read more »