Sep. 6, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 102nd Precinct are still searching for three suspects who allegedly robbed two men at gunpoint on a residential street in Ozone Park in August. Police say the two victims, a 37-year-old and a 24-year-old, were walking in front of 97-18 80th St. at around 8 p.m….
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Sep. 6, 2023 By Ethan Marshall State Senator Leroy Comrie partnered with A&E Real Estate to host a free backpack giveaway outside his office on Farmers Boulevard in St. Albans Aug. 29. The giveaway came just as kids were preparing to go back to school. Each backpack handed out contained notebooks, pens and pencils. A&E…
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Sep. 6, 2023 By Ethan Marshall Robberies, burglaries and other property crimes are dropping across Queens, according to a review of recent crime statistics covering the end of August and the start of September. The NYPD released its crime stats for its precincts in northern and southern Queens during the week of Aug. 28 to…
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Sep. 5, 2023 By Bill Parry Emmy award-winning reporter and NY1 anchor Ruschell Boone died Sunday due to complications related to pancreatic cancer, according to the new station where she worked for more than 21 years, mostly covering Queens. She was 48. From covering the devastation from Superstorm Sandy more than two decades ago, to the powderkeg that followed as the city converted the Pan Am Hotel in Elmhurst into a shelter for homeless families in 2014 to being the only TV reporter in the room when she told a young Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she had defeated Congressman Joe Crowley…
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Sep. 5, 2023 By Ethan Marshall MNS Real Estate’s recently released rental report for the month of August in 2023 shows that the average rent price in Queens is still rising. According to the data collected, the average rent has risen 2.81% from July to August, from $2,735 to $2,811. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units…
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Sep. 5, 2023 By Ethan Marshall After analyzing data from Zillow that details the average time it takes to close a sale in each state, RubyHome Realty concluded that New York is the slowest state in which to sell realty. The compiled data determined that the nationwide average time it takes to close a sale is 33.5 days. According to the data for 2023, it takes an average of 59.83 days for homes in New York state to be sold. Despite this large average, it actually presents an improvement from the same time in 2022. Since last year, the average…
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Sep. 4, 2023 By Ethan Marshall Citi Field, home of the New York Mets, was voted the winning venue by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice travel award this year for Best Stadium Food. The 2023 10Best Readers’ Choice list highlights some of the standout meals available at Citi Field. Citi Field’s nomination for this list…
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Sep. 2, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki Police arrested an upstate New York man who was subsequently charged with murder one day after an early-morning shooting in South Richmond Hill that left a 31-year-old man dead. Law enforcement sources said the murder happened at about 4:19 a.m. on Sept. 2 near a home on 125th Street,…
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Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was criminally charged with murder in the cold-blooded fatal shooting of a Florida man outside a St. Albans nightclub in April. Christopher King, 31, of Essex Street in Elmont, was arraigned Sept. 1 in Queens Supreme Court on an indictment charging him with murder in…
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Sep. 1, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village are looking for two suspects who attempted to break into a home located near the Mount Sinai Seventh Day Adventist Church on Aug. 30. The two crooks were caught on camera as they cased the joint near the intersection of 93rd Avenue and 217th Street just before 6 p.m. The two men attempted to enter the residence but were thwarted from gaining entry and ran off empty-handed southbound on 217th Street toward Jamaica Avenue, police said. There were no injuries reported as a result of the…
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