Nov. 15, 2017 By Tara Law
The organizers of the Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema announced last week that the festival will be returning for a second year next August.
Jayson Simba, the founder, said that the success of the inaugural event this year left little doubt that it would return.…
Nov. 15, By Tara Law
An unlicensed massage therapist from Kew Gardens Hills was arrested last week for groping a 16-year-old girl while he was giving her a massage, police said.
Bing Yue, 31, made sexual contact with the teen while giving her a massage while working at Gogo Foot in Massapequa,…
Nov. 9, By Tara Law
A Rego Park man who allegedly paid women in the Philippines to create and send him images of children being sexually abused, was arrested today and charged with conspiracy to produce child pornography, according to the U.S.…
Nov. 8, 2017 By Tara Law
The holiday lights will shine yet again on Austin Street, with the concert promoters at Forest Hills Stadium paying the tab.
The festive lights were going to be gone this year since the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce that has traditionally raised funds to pay for them was unable to cover the cost.…
Nov. 7, 2017 By Tara Law
Friends and family of a Pennsylvania teenager last seen at a Rego Park hotel are asking for the public’s help to find her.
Corinna Slusser, 19, who grew up in the small town of Bloomsburg,…
Nov. 6, 2017 By Tara Law
A Paris Baguette bakery will be opening in Forest Hills in coming months— where Radio Shack was previously located.
The café/bakery, which will be two doors down from Starbucks at 107-08 Continental Ave.,…
Nov. 1, 2017 By Tara Law
FOREST HILLS — A Forest Hills resident has started a fundraising campaign to bring back the lights that have gone up on Austin Street every holiday season for decades.
Cat Rakowski, a local resident,…
Oct. 31, By Christian Murray
A Forest Hills man is one of three individuals who faces up to 15 years in prison for smashing more than 48 headstones and spray-painting racist slurs on them in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in August,…
October 30, By Tara Law
Forest Hills frozen yogurt store Vanilla Sky closed last week.
The store, located at 70-35 Austin Street, had been in business since 2013 offering frozen yogurt, shakes, coffee and pastries in its bright, corner space.…
October 25, By Christian Murray
A man was shot outside a Kew Gardens bodega Monday night and was left in critical condition, police said.
The victim, 46, was shot once in the buttocks outside 71-06 Kissena Boulevard, near 71st Avenue,…