Feb. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry A 27-year-old woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Belt Parkway in Springfield Gardens early Saturday morning. Police from the 116th Precinct in Rosedale responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision near 223rd Street and came upon the wreckage of a white Toyota…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury indicted a Flushing woman and her friend from the Bronx for various crimes related to the August 2024 hit-and-run death of 56-year-old David Opiela, two blocks from his Queensboro Hill home. Jamie Ferreira, 37, of 98th Street, was allegedly behind the wheel of a…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Reported rapes across both northern and southern Queens are on the rise during the 28-day period ending on Feb. 2, compared to the same period of time the previous year. However, robberies and grand larcenies have undergone significant declines across both northern and southern Queens. Northern and southern…
Feb. 5, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a case of aggravated harassment on the St. John’s University campus in Hillcrest at 80-00 Utopia Parkway last month. Police from the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows reported that two unidentified men drew two swastikas in the snow in front…
Feb. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry The body of a man in his 20s or 30s was discovered in the grass along the Clearview Expressway in Queens Village on Tuesday morning. The body was spotted just before 9 a.m. near the tree line by a motorist who pulled over on the shoulder of the…
Feb. 4, 2025 By Bill Parry Seven children and three adults were injured when their school bus driver lost control and crashed in Bellerose Manor on Monday morning. Police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision at 239-30 Union Turnpike at 7:30 a.m. Upon arrival,…
Hate crimes detectives are looking for three suspects who scrawled swastikas in Queens and Manhattan last month in two separate incidents. According to police sources, the first hateful act occurred at around 3:22 p.m. on Jan. 21 inside of Manhattan’s Washington Square Park. Cops say a man approached the iconic arch in Greenwich Village…
Feb. 3, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens Village man was struck and killed by a truck driver around the corner from his Hollis Court Boulevard home on Friday morning. Police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian at 212th Street…
Queens cops are on the hunt for three youths who shot a teen boy in a caught-on-camera afternoon ambush last month. According to police sources, the brazen incident unfolded on 123rd Avenue and 147th Street in Jamaica at around 2:54 p.m. on Jan. 28. Authorities said a group of about seven individuals approached a…
Police in Queens are looking for the slasher who attacked a man and left him a bloody mess early on Saturday morning. Cops said the violent assault occurred at about 4:15 a.m. on Feb. 1 near a restaurant at 109-08 Liberty Ave. in South Ozone Park. Officers from the 106th Precinct responded to the…