Sikh Man Gunned Down in SUV – Police search for answers in hit style attack
A 26-year-old member of the Sikh community was the only passenger of four shot in the face while riding in the back seat of a…
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New FEMA Maps A Relief For Some, But No Cure For Financial Worries
While some South Queens residents breathed sighs of relief about the preliminary flood maps released by the Federal Emergency Management agency on Monday, they said…
HB Relay 5 Years of Hope: Queens Most Successful Relay Celebrates Anniversary
The Howard Beach Relay for Life celebrated its first landmark anniversary over this weekend. The event was originally brought to the community by…
Set For Auction, Parkway Hospital Could Become Senior Housing – Officials
There are indicators that the large beige building set amidst weeds on 113th Street in Forest Hills once housed a 251-bed hospital, but they, like…
Congregants Celebrate Their Return – Howard Beach Assembly of God rededicates church
When Sandy touched down in Howard Beach, she was undeniably non-sectarian. She destroyed nearly all Houses of Worship in her path, showing very little,…
Laundry Burglars Caught in Forest Hills – Trio involved in as many as 35 crimes
A trio of laundry room bandits threatening apartment building residents has been caught after video surveillance and some good old fashioned police work resulted in…
GAS EXPLOSION: Levels Howard Beach Home, Sends One to Hospital in Critical Condition
Last week as The Forum was preparing to go to press, an explosion ripped through a private one family home in Howard Beach. Homeowner Teresa…
Gang Killer Arrested In Teen’s Murder
The man wanted in the brutal slaying of 14-year-old D’aja Robinson on May 18, has been arrested in South Carolina. Kevin McClinton was taken into…
For Ozone Park Grad, A Chance To Shine At Juilliard
When Rosanny Zayas was growing up in Ozone Park, she never dreamed that, upon graduating from college, a relatively newfound passion for acting would vault…
Trauma Level One – Jamaica Hospital is at the Head of the Class When it Comes to Trauma Medicine and the Life Saving Surgeries that go with it
“Did you know there is an app that tells people who call you when you’re driving that you can’t talk or call right now but…
QueensWay Design Winner To Be Named This Week
Described by some as the “High Line” of Queens, the QueensWay project to transform 3.5 miles of abandoned borough rail track into city parkland has…
In Rockaway, Hoping For A Return To Normalcy
They came from Queens, from Long Island, from upstate. They lugged beach umbrellas and bags spilling over with sand toys. They smeared sunscreen and yelped…
Memorial Day At Home in Howard Beach
He remembers marching in the parade as a kid growing up in the 1950’s as a Cub Scout and then a Boy Scout. He remembered…
Red Cross Holds Back Sandy Money
Published reports released this week say The American Red Cross has not released more than $100 million dollars in relief money for Hurricane Sandy…
Memorial Day At Home in Glendale
Mervin Paugh, a Korean War veteran and member of Ridgewood’s Joseph B. Garity Post, served as the grand marshal of the 75th annual Ridgewood-Glendale parade. The parade, which…