Sep. 15, 2025 By Taliah Gabriel The Queens Night Market is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, returning to Flushing Meadows Corona Park from Saturday, Sept. 13, through Saturday, Oct. 25. The Market will be open every Saturday from 4 p.m. until midnight, offering attendees the opportunity to explore a variety of vendors, merchants…
Sep. 15, 2025 By Athena Dawson A new state-of-the-art YMCA is coming to downtown Flushing. Council Member Sandra Ung announced on Friday, Sept. 12, that she’s secured just over $1 million in city funding to help bring a long-awaited new YMCA to Flushing. Ung was joined by YMCA Leadership, members of the Flushing YMCA…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Bill Parry FDNY fire marshals and the NYPD are investigating a two-alarm house fire in College Point on Friday morning that injured five residents. The FDNY received a call just after 6:20 a.m. on Sept. 12 of a fire in a two-story private home at 15-11 124th St., and arriving…
Sep. 12, 2025 By Ethan Marshall The Shops at Skyview concluded its four-week “Skyview High” event series with a commencement ceremony featuring a special appearance by K-pop sensation Kang Daniel on Saturday, Aug. 30. Skyview High was designed to immerse local teens and young adults in some of Asian culture, art and food’s most…
Sep. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall In recognition of the 24th anniversary of 9/11, the New York Mets released a documentary on YouTube, “11 Days in September,” which details the pivotal role Shea Stadium and the organization played in the relief efforts in the days that followed the terrorist attacks. Presented by the Tunnel…
Sep. 10, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Twenty NYCHA residents graduated from the NYCHA Technology Academy over the summer at Pomonok Houses in Flushing. The NYCHA Technology Academy is a five-week program developed by Soulful Synergy and the Public Housing Community Fund to help public housing residents by bridging the digital divide, creating intergenerational connections…
Sep. 9, 2025 By Jessica Militello Flushing Town Hall is unveiling their Fall exhibit at the end of the month, giving artists and comic book writers the opportunity to display their work with “Comics in the City: Sequential Art is…” beginning on Sept. 25 and running through Oct. 20. The exhibit, located at 137-35…
Sep. 8, 2025 By Jessica Militello The Treehouse Shakers are back at Flushing Town Hall (FTH) on Sunday, Sept. 14, bringing farm life to the stage with “Hatched,” a fun and interactive show that gives babies and toddlers a unique hands-on approach to theater. The play and workshop will take place at the historic…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Bill Parry A Whitestone motorcyclist was killed after a collision with the driver of a Mini Cooper on Thursday, Sept. 4, according to the NYPD. Police say 21-year-old James Korakis, of 9th Avenue in Whitestone, was riding a BMW motorcycle northbound on the Cross Island Parkway service road near 157th…
Sep. 5, 2025 By Ethan Marshall The Flushing Hospital Medical Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of its new state-of-the-art Neotal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) on Tuesday, Aug. 19. This new NICU will provide the doctors and nurses at the hospital with an environment that delivers the highest quality of specialized…