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Queens Night Market to close 2024 Season with Halloween-themed finale offering big prizes for best costumes
Queens Night Market to close 2024 Season with Halloween-themed finale offering big prizes for best costumes

Oct. 17, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

The Queens Night Market is set to wrap up its 2024 season with a Halloween-themed finale on Saturday, Oct. 26.

The event at Flushing Meadows Corona Park will feature trick-or-treating, family-friendly entertainment, live performances and its highly anticipated annual costume contests. This year, the excitement is elevated with an impressive lineup of prizes up for grabs.

Costumed attendees can compete for various standout prizes donated by local sponsors. These include a baseball signed by New York Mets designated hitter JD Martinez, VIP concert tickets from Forest Hills Stadium, two roundtrip flights from JetBlue and four Disney on Ice tickets courtesy of Citizens. Other prizes include $100 gift certificates to Kiko Milano, JD Sports and Zara from Queens Center Mall, a one-night stay at the Hyatt Regency JFK, courtesy of Resorts World NYC, and family ticket packs to the Tianyu Lights Festival.

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Alleged squatter indicted for illegally occupying Howard Beach home: DA

A Hollis woman was indicted by a Queens grand jury on charges of burglary, criminal trespass and other related crimes for illegally occupying a single-family home in Howard Beach.

Laurel Bay, 49, of 198th Street, was arraigned Thursday in Queens Supreme Court on a five-count indictment for allegedly squatting in a house on 99th Street that had been vacant since 2012, with the homeowner managing the property from out of state.

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Long Islander struck and killed on the Cross Island Expressway in Bayside

A Long Island man was struck and killed on the Cross Island Expressway in Bayside on Tuesday night after he was involved in a crash and got out of his vehicle to assess the damage from the collision.

Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck near exit 30 alongside Alley Pond Park just before 11 p.m. The officers found the 31-year-old man lying on the roadway unconscious and unresponsive. EMS rushed the victim to North Shore University Medical Center in Manhasset, where he was pronounced dead a short while later. The victim was identified as Curtis Blocker of Canterbury Gate in Lynbrook.

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Former FBI agent from Queens Village charged with possessing arsenals of illegal ghost guns: DA

A former FBI agent from Queens Village is criminally charged with possessing an arsenal of illegal ghost guns and a stockpile of ammunition after law enforcement raided his home and a storage unit in Port Washington, L.I.

Scott Chiang, 53, was arraigned Friday in Queens Criminal Court on a 242-count criminal complaint after the searches at the two locations uncovered 18 illegal firearms, including eight ghost guns and six assault weapons, as well as high-capacity magazines, ammo and gun manufacturing tools.

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