Man Wanted for Discharging Firearm on Glendale Street Early Monday Morning

Mar. 21, 2025 By Dean Moses

A parolee who spent nearly two decades in prison for raping a young girl in Brooklyn was arrested in Queens Thursday on public lewdness and sex abuse charges.

Mar. 21, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) has launched a one-year Overnight Truck Parking Pilot, providing regulated, metered parking for commercial trucks in industrial business zones on 56^th Road from 43^rd Street to 49^th Street in Maspeth.

Forbes Travel Guide named LaGuardia Airport as the nation’s best airport in October based on a survey of 5,000 hospitality and travel experts and the guide’s most well-traveled fliers.

On Tuesday, Port Authority executive director Rick Cotton accepted the Verified Air Travel Award in the recently completed Terminal C. The award is the latest in a long list of accolades given to LaGuardia throughout the course of the airport’s $8 billion transformation project that began in 2016.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Assembly Member Steven Raga has helped secure $750 million in funding for the preservation of Mitchell-Lama housing in the New York State Legislature’s “One-House” state budget proposals.

Mar. 20, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Queens locals interested in exploring possible Irish heritage can enter a free DNA test competition. 

Mar. 20, 2025 By Athena Dawson

The United States Postal Service (USPS) held an unveiling ceremony for a stamp of the late civil rights icon, Hon. Constance Baker Motley. 

Mar. 20, 2025 By Colum Motherway and Athena Dawson

New York City’s new trash bin laws, which mandate that all residential waste be placed in secure containers, have encountered a rocky start, filled with confusion, complaints and logistical hurdles. 

Mar. 19, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Hundreds of seniors gathered at Queens Borough Hall on Wednesday morning to protest a proposed $102 million budget cut to the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA)—a reduction that advocates warn could lead to the closure of up to 90 senior centers across the city.

Mar. 19, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Vincent “Vinny” Riso, the senior principal of the Bayside-based construction company the Briarwood Organization, died on Monday, March 17. He was 90 years old.

Mar. 19, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The Queens Public Library (QPL) has been recognized as one of the top midsize employers in the United States, ranking 46th on Forbes’ 2025 list of America’s Best Midsize Employers.