NYPD Looking for Two Men Who Attempted to Burglarize Rego Park House; Chased Out by Homeowner

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

A new arts initiative in Queens has appointed a prominent leader from the borough’s cultural scene as its first executive director.

The victim in a Queens cold case homicide has finally been identified more than three decades after her body was discovered in a grassy area along the Cross Island Expressway near Cambria Heights in August 1991, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday.

Advanced DNA testing revealed the body of the murder victim, found with her ankles bound with a cord and covered with a large wooden board, was Judy Rodriguez, who was reported missing by her family shortly after being last seen on Jan. 23, 1991, at her daughter’s first birthday party.

Police from five Queens precincts are looking for a pair of burglars who targeted independent mom-and-pop drugstores from Fresh Meadows to Astoria throughout December.

The two men allegedly broke into three drugstores in three different neighborhoods in a half-hour during the morning of Sunday, Dec. 15. While one stood guard outside a drugstore at 63-09 39th Avenue in Woodside, his partner broke through the glass front door at 5:50 a.m. Police from the 108th Precinct reported that he removed $400 in cash before leaving.

Dec. 27, 2024 QNS News Team

The Annual Chanukah Celebration, widely recognized as the largest event of its kind in New York City, is set to return to Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows on Monday, Dec. 30.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Colum Motherway

Santa paid a special visit to Council Member Robert Holden’s office on Friday, Dec. 20, to bring presents and a smile to the local children.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The real estate listing site StreetEasy presented a series of predictions that 2025 may have in store for the market in New York City in a report by StreetEasy Senior Economist Kenny Lee.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Eviction rates at New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) properties under the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program decreased slightly in Queens in 2024, bucking a citywide trend that saw eviction rates spike significantly elsewhere in New York.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Dec. 27, 2024 By Czarinna Andres 

Dec. 27, 2024 By Colum Motherway

Council Member Robert Holden has commended ICE for their arrest of a child sex offender in New York City but also expressed his disappointment with sanctuary city policies.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Assembly Member Sam Berger has announced plans to introduce legislation in the 2025 legislative session to codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism into New York State law.