Op-Ed: Bus Stop
File Photo The following op-ed piece was submitted to The Forum by Alex Blenkinsopp of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association. Transportation in southern Queens must…
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At Long Last, Security Cameras Installed around Forest Park
PHOTO: Fourteen cameras have been installed around the 544-acre green space. Courtesy of Alex Blenkinsopp By Michael V. Cusenza Crews last week installed long-delayed security cameras around…
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…
Borough’s First Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens on Queens Boulevard
PHOTO: Assemblyman Jeff Aubry (r.) listened to Dr. Laura Bultman, Vireo clinical director and board member, as he toured the Elmhurst facility last Friday. Photo Courtesy…
Off-Duty Officer Talks Distraught Man Down from Queens Center Balcony
PHOTO: Off-duty City Police Officer Christian Campoverde last week saved a man from leaping off a Queens Center Mall balcony. Photo Courtesy of NYPD By Michael…
Four Borough Pols Back Massive Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Music Fest
PHOTO: Four Queens elected officials last week threw their support behind the three-day Panorama Music Festival to be held next summer in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. File…
Elmhurst Man Pleads Guilty to Collecting and Trading Child Porn
An Elmhurst man has pleaded guilty to promoting a sexual performance by a child following the discovery of thousands of images of children as young…
Simon Property Group Eyes Queens Center and Atlas Park
Despite the fact that large-scale shopping malls have generally struggled to find customers in recent years, two major Queens retail destinations—the Queens Center Mall in…
Elmhurst Man Charged with Stabbing Wife to Death
An Elmhurst man last week was arraigned on charges in the stabbing death of his wife in their basement apartment, and allegedly writing a suicide…
Addabbo, Jr. Seeking Fourth Term in State Senate
With the midterm elections less than a week away, state Sen. Joe Addabbo, Jr. (D-Howard Beach) is hoping that he can turn his three-term run…
Cops Hunt Queens Center Perv
Police this week were still searching for a man they say sexually assaulted two women inside Queens Center Mall last Thursday. Cops said that around…
Howard Beach’s Quinn for the Win: Waging War Against ALS
To us, it is known as the ice bucket challenge. But to Howard Beach resident Patt Quinn, it is an effort to use a limited…
‘Night Out’ Brings Party to Precincts
There were parties all over the city Tuesday night and southern Queens came out in big numbers to support the police precincts that patrol the…
West Nile spotted in boro
Mosquitoes around parts of northeast Queens were found to be carrying West Nile Virus, the city Health Department reported, but posed no threat to the…