June 26, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan As election results rolled in last night for the Queens District Attorney race, a stark contrast appeared between voters in eastern and western Queens. Support for Tiffany Cabán, a 31-year-old queer Latina public defender, was overwhelmingly strong on the western side of the borough, particularly in Astoria, Long Island… Read more »
June 26, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Police are continuing the search for a knife-wielding robber of a Rego Park shop who violently stabbed one of the store’s employees. On June 15, just after 7:20 a.m., the unidentified suspect entered Candy Store, located at 98-51 63rd Rd., and began choking the 21-year-old male employee. The assailant… Read more »
June 25, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Political newcomer Tiffany Cabán is on the verge of pulling off a stunning upset to win the Democratic nomination to be the next Queens District Attorney. With 98.6 percent of the vote in, Cabán had generated 39.6 percent of the vote, about 1,100 votes more than Melinda Katz who… Read more »
June 25, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan A car crashed into the front of a Forest Hills ramen restaurant earlier today, sending four individuals to the hospital with minor injuries. The car, a silver Nissan, drove into the front of Tamashii Ramen, located at 71-34 Austin St., just after 11 a.m., police said. It is unknown… Read more »
June 24, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan and Christian Murray State Senator Michael Gianaris endorsed public defender Tiffany Cabán, 31, over the weekend in the contentious race for Queens District Attorney. “I’m interested in supporting someone who is going to bring real change to the prosecutor’s office,” Gianaris said when he made the announcement. “Tiffany Cabán… Read more »
June 23, 2019 By Shane O’Brien The number of detainees that the city plans to house at the proposed Kew Gardens jail facility has dropped—with the mayor’s office now saying the complex will be built for 1,150 prisoners. The proposed Kew Gardens facility, one of four jails to be built across the city so the… Read more »
June 21, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Police are searching for a man wanted for exposing himself in front of a woman on the F train in Forest Hills earlier this month. The woman was riding the Queens-bound F train towards 71st Avenue Forest Hills around 8:35 a.m. on Wednesday June 5, when she noticed that… Read more »
June 21, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan City Council Member Rory Lancman officially dropped out of the Queens District Attorney race earlier today and threw his support behind Queens Borough President Melinda Katz. “The numbers are simply not there for me to win this Tuesday’s Democratic Primary for District Attorney, and I owe it to the… Read more »
June 20, 2019 By Shane O’Brien The Shalimar Diner in Rego Park is likely to move to Long Island and be converted into a brewery/diner, according to local preservationist Michael Perlman. Perlman has joined forces with attorney Ronald Hariri and Lenny Dykstra, the former Mets baseball great, to ensure that the structure gets a new… Read more »
June 19, 2019 By Christian Murray Queens Borough President Melinda Katz has given the thumbs down to the Mayor’s borough-based jail proposal. Katz, while supportive of the plan to close Rikers Island, noted in her rejection letter to the City Planning Commission that a 1,437-person jail as proposed for Kew Gardens is too big. She… Read more »