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Sep. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry
A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man and his accomplice on weapons and drugs charges for trafficking illegal guns from Georgia into southeast Queens.
Sep. 12, 2025 By Paulina Albarracin
This weekend, an upscale café will raise a toast to its one-year milestone.
U.S. Secret Service agents executed a search warrant at a Jamaica warehouse on Wednesday afternoon, following the arrests of four Queens men and a Brooklyn resident after an indictment was unsealed in Brooklyn federal court on charges that they stole and resold more than $20 million in building and construction materials and appliances from home improvement and hardware stores in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island and elsewhere.
Kai Xu, 44, Xiang Chen, 39, Songhal Lee, 35, and Kang Zhang, 30, all from Queens and Zhi Bin An, 56, of Brooklyn, were arraigned on a five-count indictment variously charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, access device fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Sep. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall
In recognition of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the New York Mets released a documentary on YouTube, “11 Days in September,” which details the pivotal role Shea Stadium and the organization played in the relief efforts in the days that followed the terrorist attacks.
Sep. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and community and faith leaders unveiled a street sign co-naming Liberty Avenue and 127th Street in South Richmond Hill as “Masjid Al Abidin Way” on Friday, Sept. 5.
Sep. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien
An upcoming art exhibition at the Cambria Heights branch of Queens Public Library (QPL) aims to showcase the work of Black and brown artists across New York City.
Sep. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry
The NYPD has identified the victim who was gunned down in a Jamaica parking lot on the night of Sunday, Sept. 7.
Sep. 10, 2025 By Athena Dawson
The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) has begun its annual Business Solutions Center (BSC) Crawl, bringing resources to entrepreneurs and small business owners in neighborhoods across the five boroughs.
Police from the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill and Transit District 20 are still looking for a groper who targeted a woman inside the Jamaica-Van Wyck subway station last month.
The 24-year-old victim was on the escalator just after 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17, when a stranger approached her from behind and grabbed her buttocks, police said Tuesday. The suspect ran out of the subway station, onto Jamaica Avenue and fled on foot in an unknown direction. The victim was not injured during the encounter.
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