Oct. 5, 2021 By Allie Griffin The Queens County Farm Museum is offering a variety of fun fall activities for Queens families this month ahead of Halloween. Families visiting the farm can pick out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch; munch on apple pies, donuts, cider and the fruit itself; take a hayride around the… Read more »
Oct. 5, 2021 By Allie Griffin Several Queens lawmakers want Gov. Kathy Hochul to kill the controversial LaGuardia AirTrain project altogether after she announced Monday that she has directed the Port Authority to review other options. The lawmakers want Hochul to officially slam the lid on the $2 billion plan to build a 1.5-mile rail… Read more »
Oct. 5, 2021 By Allie Griffin The city’s three public library systems—Queens, Brooklyn and New York—are eliminating late fees and scraping all users’ existing balances. The libraries have suspended late fees since March 2020 due to the pandemic and announced Tuesday that they will permanently end late charges — which have been in place since… Read more »
Oct. 4, 2021 By Allie Griffin Dozens of Queens residents rallied for reproductive rights outside Queens Borough Hall Saturday as part of a nationwide day of action for abortion justice. The rally — and more than 600 similar protests across the country — was organized in response to the recent Texas law that effectively bans… Read more »
Oct. 4, 2021 By Allie Griffin A Queens college student and organizer is fighting for New York state to make Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha public holidays. Tanbir Chowdhury, a 20-year-old Jamaica resident and John Jay College student, is calling on state legislators to sign onto to a bill to make the Muslim holidays —… Read more »
Oct. 1, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Two Olympians from Queens who won gold medals at the Tokyo Summer Games were honored at a ceremony in Kew Gardens Friday. Track and field athlete Dalilah Muhammad and basketball player Tina Charles were both presented with the “Key to Queens” by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards in recognition… Read more »
Oct. 1, 2021 By Christian Murray A 20-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a senior citizen during a confrontation at a golf course in Queens last year—which arguably caused the elderly man’s death days later—has been indicted on charges of assault and criminally negligent homicide. David Mangaran, of Allentown, Penn., faces up to seven years in… Read more »
Sept. 29, 2021 By Allie Griffin A Long Island resident is bringing a popular Manhattan barbeque restaurant to several locations In Queens with the first opening in Forest Hills this year. Michael Dolan, who left his corporate job in 2019 after working 14 years in finance to break into the restaurant industry, is opening a… Read more »
Oct. 1, 2021 By Michael Dorgan The body of a man who had been missing for more than a week was found floating in a lake at Alley Pond Park Thursday. Khiron Anderson, from Bayside, was discovered in the water by a passer-by at Oakland Lake in Alley Pond Park at around 12:45 p.m., police… Read more »
Sept. 30, 2021 By Michael Dorgan Police are searching for a man and a woman who burglarized a furniture store in Flushing Tuesday and stole around $40,000 cash. The man broke a lock on the door of New Happy Home Furniture Store, located at 43-02 Main St., at around 10:15 p.m. and went inside the… Read more »