Jul. 11, 2025 By QNS News Team NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, located at 79-01 Broadway in Elmhurst, has appointed Dr. Sheela Maru as Director and Dr. Ben McVane as Assistant Director of the hospital’s Global Health Institute, the hospital announced Thursday. The institute, which aims to transform care for historically excluded communities, builds bridges between…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry Eight people were injured aboard an MTA bus that crashed on Main Street in Flushing on Friday morning. The driver of the Q20A bus was traveling westbound on 57th Road just south of Kissena Corridor Park at 5:58 a.m. when he made a right turn onto Main Street,…
Jul. 11, 2025 By QNS News Team A local band with deep Queens roots will take center stage this month to honor one of the borough’s most dedicated public servants. On Wednesday, July 16 at 7 p.m., 2Complicated will headline the “Paul A. Vallone Tribute Show” at the Bourbon Street Rooftop, located at 40-12…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien The Mobile Museum of Tolerance (MMOT), a free, traveling education center providing anti-hate lessons on issues such as tolerance, human rights and social justice, will visit Jackson Heights this Saturday as part of the annual Festival Calle Colombia. MMOT will be open to all community members from 12…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall The second quarter of 2025 marked the first time that the average price for one-to-three-family homes in Queens eclipsed $1 million, according to a report by the real estate agency Brown Harris Stevens. The average price of these homes rose 9.1% year over year, from $928,953 in the…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Czarinna Andres A lucky TAKE 5 player in Bayside is more than $16,000 richer following the New York Lottery’s July 10 evening drawing. The winning ticket, worth $16,105, was sold at CPL Works Inc., dba BP Petrol Station, located at 34-51 Bell Blvd. A second ticket with the same prize…
Jul. 11, 2025 By Dean Moses and QNS News Team A Queens woman who survived a brutal hammer attack in a subway station in 2022 confronted her assailant in court Thursday, demanding answers and finding some measure of justice as he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Nina Rothschild, 60, stood…
Jul. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry New details have emerged in the case of the Hollis man accused luring a 14-year-old boy into his car in St. Albans and then allegedly raping him on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 1. Virgilio Taveras, 63, of Hillside Avenue, was arrested by detectives from the Queens Special…
Jul. 10, 2025 By Athena Dawson Dozens gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Queens Borough Hall on Wednesday, July 9, to celebrate the completion of a major renovation of Queens Borough Plaza. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards was joined by NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Commissioner Tom Foley, whose agency oversaw the…
Jul. 10, 2025 By Bill Parry A Springfield Gardens man and a passenger in his car died after they were involved in a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash on the Belt Parkway near Kennedy Airport on the morning of Saturday, July 5. Noah Thompson, 24, of 179th Street, was behind the wheel of a white BMW…