Early Voting Begins Saturday, Check Out Queens Poll Site Locations

Apr. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Staff members of the Holliswood Center, a nursing home for seniors located in Jamaica, gathered for a special luncheon earlier this month to celebrate three of their nurses who served in the U.S. armed forces.

Apr. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The Summer 2024 Queensboro Dance Festival, slated to run from June 8 through Sept. 15, will include more than 30 scheduled performances at various venues throughout the borough.

Apr. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

While New York City as a whole has experienced a decline in the number of housing units on the market over the past year, the borough of Queens has bucked the trend.

Apr. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson

A Jamaica teen was honored by the NYPD at One Police Plaza this week for her essay-writing ability.

Apr. 20, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann

On Wednesday, the Starbucks on Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica was abuzz as community members mingled with NYPD officers at a “Coffee with a Cop” event to share their concerns and connect with New York’s Finest over a complimentary cup of java and food prepared and donated by Starbucks team members. 

Apr. 19, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Stacy Bliagos, executive director of HANAC, an Astoria-based Hellenic non-profit organization, spoke exclusively to QNS about the organization’s dedication to helping Queens’ most vulnerable residents. 

Police from two Queens NYPD precincts are looking for an armed robber who targeted 7-Eleven stores in three different neighborhoods in just over an hour during the early morning of Wednesday, Apr. 17.

Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park reported that the first heist went down just before 2:25 a.m. at the 7-Eleven located at 112-11 Liberty Ave. in South Richmond Hill. The perpetrator allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded money from the 23-year-old man behind the counter, who complied, handing over $400 in cash from the register, police said.

A 22-year-old Jamaica Estates man was beaten and robbed in broad daylight three blocks west of Cunningham Park on Saturday, and police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows are looking for the suspects who attacked him with a baseball bat.

The incident occurred just after 7 p.m., as the victim was walking home in the vicinity of 189th Street and Aberdeen Avenue when he was set upon by the two assailants who struck him in the face and head with the baseball bat, police said. They forcibly removed his cell phone and fled in a black Pontiac Grand Am, heading northbound on 109th Street toward Union Turnpike.

An F train rider was assaulted inside the 169th Street subway station on Hillside Avenue near Homelawn Street in Jamaica Hills last week, and a dreadlocked suspect remains at large, according to the NYPD.

Police from the NYPD 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows and Transit District 20 are looking for the dreadlocked stranger who approached the 37-year-old man while he was waiting on the northbound platform just before 3:30 a.m. on Friday, Apr. 12, and began to argue with him.

Apr. 17, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The Queens Rite Aid locations at 218-35 Hempstead Ave. in Queens Village and 95-14 63rd Dr. in Rego Park are among the 53 national locations the company announced earlier this month that will close soon.