Sheriff’s Office Busts Ozone Park Banquet Hall for Hosting Hundreds of Party-Goers

A Queens grand jury indicted a Jamaica man for the fatal drive-by shooting of a rapper outside a Woodhaven pub in 2018.

Johnathan Rice, 43, of 178th Street, was arraigned on Friday on an indictment charging him with murder in the second degree for allegedly gunning down 35-year-old Frank Synder, a Brooklyn hip hop performer and party promoter known as “Hollywood Play,” outside the Tavern Lounge in Woodhaven, where he was hosting an event for a friend’s birthday.

A Richmond Hill man was sentenced Monday to seven to 21 years in prison for a drunk driving collision that killed two neighbors from South Ozone Park in June 2023.

Tamir Khan, 23, of 117th Street, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court in July to aggravated vehicular homicide and DWI charges for speeding through a Richmond Hill intersection and slamming into a vehicle driven by Inderdeo John, who was driving Charles Harris to his job as a custodian at a nearby public school.

Sep. 9, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, along with MSG and New York Knicks legend John Starks, hosted a back-to-school event in St. Albans on Saturday, Aug. 31.

An A train rider was beaten and robbed by a mugger at the Rockaway Boulevard subway station in Ozone Park on the morning of Friday, Sept. 6.

The 49-year-old victim was standing on the northbound platform of the station at Liberty Avenue and Cross Bay Boulevard at around 8:40 a.m., when a stranger approached him and engaged him in conversation.

Sep. 7, 2024 By Athena Dawson

One New Yorker teaches thousands of people how to swim, one stroke at a time. 

Sep. 6, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The average rental price for housing units across Queens went up 4.07% year-over-year in August 2024, according to a report by the real estate firm M.N.S. Real Estate.

A 72-year-old man was killed after a fire engulfed his illegal basement apartment in South Richmond Hill on Thursday afternoon.

The FDNY received a call just after 5 p.m. of a house fire at 94-14 132nd St. Firefighters confirmed the blaze broke out in the basement. The FDNY dispatched 12 units and 60 firefighters and EMS personnel to the scene. Paramedics rescued the 72-year-old victim, and EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition. He succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead a short while later.

Sep. 6, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

New York City has launched a housing lottery for 182 units in The Monarch, a 24-story mixed-use development at 92-29 Guy R Brewer Blvd. in Jamaica that opened last July.

The FDNY received a call at 11:31 a.m. of a house fire at 95-26 110th St. in South Richmond Hill on Thursday.

Firefighters from Squad Company 270 and Ladder Company 143 arrived moments later and confirmed the blaze originated in the attic space of the two-story private dwelling.

Sep. 6, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Fall is here, and seasonal festivities have begun. Head to the Queens County Farm Museum on Saturday, Sept. 7, for Corn Fest, celebrating the grand opening of the Amazing Maize Maze.