Sep. 8, 2025 By Claude Solnik Game on! Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. played basketball on the courts in Rochdale Park as a young man. But he stood on the courts recently instead for an official ceremony, after helping fund a renovation that will improve the courts for others for years to come.…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Bill Parry and Lloyd Mitchell A teenager was shot inside Jamaica’s Rufus King Park on Friday morning, and the NYPD is searching for two suspects who remain at large. Police from the 103rd Precinct responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress near the park entrance at Jamaica…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Northern Queens experienced significant declines in several major crimes year-over-year during the 28-day period from Aug. 4-31, while southern Queens had sharp declines in robberies and burglaries over the same period of time, according to the NYPD. In northern Queens, rapes, robberies, felony assaults, burglaries and grand larcenies…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Ethan Marshall New York City Council Member Joann Ariola partnered with the 106th Precinct to hold a back-to-school supply drive on Wednesday, Aug. 27, outside her office at 93-06 101st Ave. in Ozone Park. Nearly 275 backpacks full of school supplies were given out at the event. “Every year, far…
Sep. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry On the first day of the new school year, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams welcomed students back to the High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety in Rochdale and at P.S. 48Q David N. Dinkins School for Community Service in South Jamaica on Thursday morning. Adams on…
Sep. 3, 2025 By Athena Dawson For students attending Zeta Queens Jamaica Elementary School, Sept. 2 was the first of many first days of school. Kindergartners and first graders lined the hallways of the free charter school system’s newest campus, located in the heart of downtown Jamaica. Located at 159-26 Jamaica Ave, the Jamaica…
Sep. 2, 2025 By Ethan Marshall The average cost of homes for one to three families reached $1,013,558 in the second quarter of 2025, marking the first time that price has reached $1 million dating back to the second quarter of 2024, according to a report by the real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens.…
Aug. 29, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Nine firefighters were injured, two of them seriously, and two civilians sustained minor injuries during a two-alarm house fire in South Richmond Hill on Friday morning, but it could have been worse if not for the actions of an off-duty veteran EMT. Paramedic Craig Biscuiti was driving to…
Aug. 28, 2025 By Athena Dawson The Health Department will spray pesticides in parts of western and southern Queens to reduce the risk of the mosquito-carried West Nile Virus. Weather permitting, the spraying will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 2, between 8:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. the following morning. In case of bad weather,…
Aug. 28, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are looking for an armed robber who targeted a Hollis convenience store during the early morning of Tuesday, Aug. 5. The suspect entered the storefront at 187-42 Hillside Ave. just before 5 a.m. and allegedly pulled out a firearm and demanded…