Fresh Meadows Woman Dies, A Month After Being Struck by Pick-Up Truck

Jan. 20, 2025 By Ramy Mahmoud and QNS News Team

Queens College honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring legacy during its annual commemoration event on Sunday, Jan. 19. This signature MLK event highlights the institution’s deep roots in the civil rights movement and its commitment to equality and justice.

Homicide detectives from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are now investigating the mysterious death of a College Point man nearly three months after he was found dead inside his waterfront condominium on Flushing Bay at the confluence with the East River across from LaGuardia Airport.

On the night of Sunday, Oct. 20, police responded to a 911 call of a man in need of medical attention inside the Allura at 14-50 110th St. and found a 45-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive on the bedroom floor with head trauma. EMS responded to the location and pronounced the man deceased at the scene.

Jan. 20, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Governor Kathy Hochul announced a landmark $180 million state investment on Friday to improve healthcare access in Queens, unveiling plans for the borough’s first comprehensive cancer care center at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (JHMC).

Jan. 17, 2025 By sobrien

Jan. 17, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

A Kew Gardens Hills woman is criminally charged with murder for allegedly killing her building superintendent, who was trying to collect tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid rent on behalf of the landlord, inside her apartment Tuesday. She is accused of beating the super to death with a metal pipe and hiding his body wrapped in garbage bags beneath a bed.

Sandra Coto-Navarro, 48, faces up to 25 years to life in prison after she was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court just before midnight on Thursday.

Jan. 17, 2025 By Colum Motherway

New York Holocaust Survivors joined the Arts4All Foundation, Senator Jessica Ramos, and other elected officials at Newtown High School in Elmhurst on Thursday, Jan. 16, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Jan. 17, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

It is a typical Tuesday evening in the Times Square—42 St subway station. Subway trains continue their ceaseless beat across the city while commuters dart in every direction to catch their rides. Amid this chaotic labyrinth of underground passages and platforms, newly arrived immigrants line the walkways, selling candy and fruit in a determined effort to carve out a living.

A Manhattan man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday for an execution-style murder of a long-time acquaintance on the Grand Central Parkway in 1990.

Kevin Smith, 67, of the Yorkville section on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was found guilty in November following a retrial after a previous verdict was overturned on appeal.

Jan. 17, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Assembly Member Ron Kim, announced the passage of the 2025 “Korean American Day” legislative resolution on Monday, during the start of the New York State Assembly session.

Jan. 16, 2025 By Dean Moses

A Queens woman accused of killing her building’s superintendent due to a rent dispute came face to face with the press — and the victim’s wife — following her arrest Thursday.