Police Appeal to Public for Help in ID’ing Ozone Park Robber
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in a robbery case. File Photo By Michael V. Cusenza Police this week were still hot on the heels…
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Goldfeder Asks FAA to Lower Average Airplane Noise Thresholds
PHOTO: Assemblyman Goldfeder is calling on the FAA to strengthen airplane noise regulations ahead of a congressional vote on the agency’s reauthorization. File Photo By…
State Senate Approves Bill to Keep Sex Offenders out of Homeless Shelters Housing Children
PHOTO: Sen. Addabbo has co-sponsored a bill that would prohibit dangerous sex offenders from being placed in shelters or other temporary accommodations used to house…
Editorial: Allen X Two – Twice the Fight
It’s a terrible, almost unspeakable tragedy when a child dies. Parents who suffer this tragedy deserve the light of a thousand heavens to shine upon…
Administration Heralds Wide-Ranging Support of BQX Connector
PHOTO: Mayor de Blasio this week provided more information on the BQX, a new streetcar service he unveiled in his State of the City Address…
State of City Address Outlines Speaker’s ‘ambitious agenda’
PHOTO: Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito delivered her second State of the City Address last Thursday at the Samuel Gompers Campus in the South Bronx. Photo…
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Son of Queens, Dies at 79
PHOTO: Though he was born in New Jersey, Justice Scalia was raised in Elmhurst. Photo Courtesy of Flickr/Shawn Calhoun By Michael V. Cusenza U.S. Supreme…
Borough Doctor was Also Prescription Pain-Pill Peddler: Feds
PHOTO: Federal agents on Sunday night pulled Dr. Noel Blackman from an aircraft at JFK International Airport. The flight reportedly was bound for Blackman’s native…
Instructor at East Elmhurst Mosque Charged with Sexually Abusing 9-year-old Student
PHOTO: An after-school religious program instructor at this East Elmhurst mosque has been charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl inside the mosque on two…
Cops Hunt Armed Creep after Corona Incident
PHOTO: Investigators have reached out to the public for assistance in identifying this man who allegedly menaced a woman with a gun and pleasured himself…
Penalties for Construction Safety Lapses to Quadruple
PHOTO: Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler last week announced that they will quadruple the penalties for serious construction-safety lapses….
Man Charged with Hate Crimes in Two Attacks on Chinese Women
PHOTO: A former cab driver remained behind bars this week, charged with hate crimes after he allegedly beat and robbed two Chinese women in Flushing…
Hollis Man Charged with Forcing Young Woman into Prostitution
PHOTO: A man has been charged with sex trafficking and promoting prostitution, in part for allegedly forcing a 19-year-old woman to have sex with men…
Cops Catch Alleged Staten Island Family Murderer in Woodside
PHOTO: Michael Sykes is accused of stabbing to death his girlfriend and two of her daughters at a Staten Island hotel being used as a…
Schumer to Whitehouse: Don’t Cut Anti-Terrorism Programs
PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said this week that the White House’s new budget proposal makes “ill-advised” cuts to funding for critical anti-terrorism programs that enable New York law enforcement to…