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Oct. 7, 2024 By Mill Bacchus

This past Saturday, Oct. 5, a new version of MONOPOLY was unveiled at Queens Center Mall.

Oct. 7, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

Elected officials in some Queens districts announced Halloween-themed contests for elementary school students during this spooky season. 

Oct. 7, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October, a Long Island-based non-profit is hosting a series of community events to raise awareness, celebrate survivors, and support the fight against breast cancer.

Oct. 7, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

The Ridgewood Property Owners and Civic Association hosted a local election forum Thursday evening to help local voters get to know the candidates running for Congress and state legislatures. 

Oct. 7, 2024 Lara Rydesky

Get your thimbles and racecars ready; the long-awaited Queens edition of Monopoly is now available for purchase.

Oct. 5, 2024 By Tara Siegel

Did your favorite Queens spots make the board?

A Manhattan man was convicted of murder for strangling a transgender woman to death in her Glendale apartment and then tampering with physical evidence in 2010 for the second time.

Rasheen Everett, 43, of Jefferson Street in Lower Manhattan, was originally tried and found guilty in 2013. That conviction was reversed due to a judicial error of the trial judge in 2021.

Oct. 4, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Council Member Robert Holden has voiced concerns over New York City’s sanctuary city laws following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report revealing that a Venezuelan gang member, convicted of criminal possession of a firearm, was twice released into the community after local jurisdiction ignored ICE detainer requests.

Oct. 4, 2024 By sobrien

Oct. 4, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Workers at a Woodhaven bakery were terrorized by a gunman who stormed into their store on the night of Monday, Sept. 23, police said Wednesday.

The masked-up stranger burst into the Paneorama Italian bakery at 95-20 Jamaica Ave. at around 8 p.m. and pointed a rifle at a worker behind the counter and demanded money. The employee fled the store on foot through a rear door, police said, adding that the perpetrator proceeded to run out of the bakery empty-handed through the front door.