Aleda Earth Day 2

Apr. 8, 2025 By Diana E. Limongi

As a mom who works outside the home, I know all too well the struggles that working parents face here in Queens and throughout New York state. I, too, have struggled to find affordable child care in my community. Child care has always been 20-30 percent of take-home pay, making it one of my family’s biggest expenses. My story is not an anomaly: Across New York state, thousands of families struggle to find and pay for quality child care.

Apr. 8, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Mighty Quinn’s BBQ is making a flavorful comeback in Forest Hills with a grand reopening celebration on Thursday, April 10, featuring mouthwatering barbecue and free tastings.

Apr. 8, 2025 By Colum Motherway

A group of City Council Members known as the “Common Sense Caucus” is gearing up to introduce legislation next week aimed at making New York City’s recently implemented mandatory household composting program voluntary. 

Apr. 8, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards joined members of services union 32BJ SEIU and civic and community leaders to call on Con Edison to cancel a planned rate increase that will see electric and gas bills rise by 11% and 13%, respectively, in 2026.

Apr. 8, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Queens bus riders can now use a new online route lookup tool to prepare for major service changes coming this summer.

A desperate search is underway for a Glendale senior who has been missing for more than three weeks.

Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood are looking for 70-year-old Antoni Bien, of Madison Street just off Fresh Pond Road, who was last seen on March 14 at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital, located at 102-01 66th Road, in the confines of the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills. His last known contact was made at around 6 p.m. that day after he was discharged, police said.

Apr. 7, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng has joined U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis to reintroduce bipartisan legislation that would expand housing benefits for veterans nationwide.

Apr. 7, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Tucked away between a car dealership and an auto mechanic on Fresh Pond Road, Sideshow NYC is easy to miss—but for more than two decades, the small storefront has quietly served as a hub of underground culture, skateboarding, and analog media in Queens.

Marking one year since the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario, members of the South Asian community joined his family and friends on Thursday, April 10, for a vigil at Frank McConnell Park in Richmond Hill, followed by a march demanding justice.

Rozario, a Bangladeshi teen experiencing a mental health crisis, was killed by NYPD officers in his Ozone Park home in front of his family. His relatives renewed calls for accountability, criticizing Mayor Eric Adams, the NYPD, and Attorney General Letitia James for what they described as inaction, and urged the firing and prosecution of the cops who tased and then shot him.

Apr. 7, 2025 By sobrien

April 7, 2025 By Shane O’Brien