Mar. 21, 2025 By Shane O’Brien Mayor Eric Adams has announced the start of the public review ULURP process for the Jamaica Neighborhood Plan, an ambitious proposal to rezone a significant portion of Downtown Jamaica and deliver thousands of homes and thousands of jobs to an area that has faced decades of disinvestment. Adams…
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. Police arrested John Garrison, 53, for going on a self-gratifying crime spree this month in two Queens neighborhoods during which…
Mar. 21, 2025 By Bill Parry 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…
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. The one-house proposals, released as rebuttals of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s executive budget proposals, mean that official negotiations over the 2025 State…
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. Over 200 people attended the ceremony at the Robert Ross Family Life Center on Linden Boulevard in Jamaica to celebrate the trailblazer’s life and legacy…
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. The initiative, launched in November by the Department of Sanitation (DSNY), has been touted as…
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. The…
Mar. 19, 2025 Staff Report Vincent “Vinny” Riso, senior principal of the Bayside-based Briarwood Organization and a lifelong advocate for affordable housing and community service, died peacefully on Monday, March 17, 2025. He was 90 years old and surrounded by his loving family. Vincent was born on September 7, 1934, in Queens, New York.…
Mar. 19, 2025 By Colum Motherway Robin Russell-French, the owner of the infamous “space shuttle” bus that was parked on Starr Street in Ridgewood, has explained why he could not move the vehicle and why he is now planning legal action after his bus was severely damaged during its recent removal. The vehicle, which…
Mar. 19, 2025 By Athena Dawson A Forest Hills-based hospital had been recognized for its high patient safety standards. Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Forest Hills Hospital, located at 102-01 66th Rd., has been recognized for its exceptional patient safety standards, earning a 2025 Patient Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades. The hospital ranked among the…