May. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson NewYork-Presbyterian and March of Dimes have partnered to bring a mobile OBGYN office to the tri-state area. The Mom and Baby Mobile Health Center brings pregnancy, post-birth and women’s health care directly to mothers in need of care. The mobile bus serves unhoused and undocumented women and collaborates with…
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May. 21, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Brooklyn man who had a murder conviction vacated by the Queens District Attorney’s Office in November 2022 was indicted in connection to a fatal shooting in Middle Village.
May. 21, 2024 By Anthony Medina Council Member Lynn Schulman has announced Richmond Hill High School, P.S. 62Q Chester Park School and the NYPD as the winners of nearly half a million dollars each in capital funds for improvement projects through Participatory Budgeting. Schulman, who represents Richmond Hill residents in the city council, announced the…
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May. 21, 2024 By Athena Dawson The Belmont Racetrack reboot has been hailed as a “Project of Regional Significance” by the Long Island Regional Planning Council (LIRPC). The $455 million project for the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, near the Queens-Nassau County border, was given the designation after a presentation from developer Michael Dubb, who…
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May. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry and Lloyd Mitchell
The FDNY rescued two construction workers who were injured during a trench collapse at a home in South Ozone Park Monday morning.
May. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry
An administrator at John Adams High School in Ozone Park was arrested on campus Wednesday for allegedly stroking the inner thigh of a 15-year-old student on Monday and then showing pornographic images of himself to her the following day.
May. 19, 2024 By Czarinna Andres A diverse range of businesses, including a yoga studio, an olive oil distributor, a female health care provider, a sustainable mushroom farmer, and an AI-powered physical therapy service, have been named winners of the 2024 Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge (QTIC). Each winner will receive a $20,000 grant to…
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May. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry
This Sunday, May 19, the city is conducting walking tours of the newly opened Arverne East Nature Preserve in the Rockaways to showcase the 35-acre beachfront jewel developed on a formerly vacant illegal dumping ground on Beach 44th Street in Edgemere.
May. 17, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann A rally was held at the Queens Public Library at Forest Hills on May 16, during which Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Queens Public Library President and CEO Dennis Walcott, union reps and library advocates called on Mayor Eric Adams to reverse the proposed $58.3 million budget cuts to…
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May. 17, 2024 By Athena Dawson Bon voyage trout! A group of local high school students from Queens joined the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and non-profit Trout Unlimited on a trip to release juvenile trout into a river in Westchester County. Twenty-two High school students from John Bowne High School in…
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