New Mobile COVID Testing Coming Next Week, First Stop in Kew Gardens

Dec. 31, 2024 By Colum Motherway

Union and community organizations from the New Yorkers for a Fair Economy coalition were given a reason to celebrate after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act into law on Sunday, Dec. 22.

Dec. 31, 2024 QNS News team

Time is running out for Queens residents to select their favorite businesses in the 2025 Best of the Boro awards.

One of the men who were shot in the head during a botched robbery on the night of Thursday, Dec. 19, in a suspected gambling den in Flushing has died, and the investigation is deemed a homicide, the NYPD announced on Monday.

Yun Li, 37, of Franklin Avenue in Flushing, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead on Monday, Dec. 23 at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital. Li lived three blocks east of the crime scene.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

A new arts initiative in Queens has appointed a prominent leader from the borough’s cultural scene as its first executive director.

The victim in a Queens cold case homicide has finally been identified more than three decades after her body was discovered in a grassy area along the Cross Island Expressway near Cambria Heights in August 1991, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Monday.

Advanced DNA testing revealed the body of the murder victim, found with her ankles bound with a cord and covered with a large wooden board, was Judy Rodriguez, who was reported missing by her family shortly after being last seen on Jan. 23, 1991, at her daughter’s first birthday party.

Dec. 30, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Council Member Sandra Ung partnered with a local nonprofit organization to provide relief to elderly victims of a benefits scam that left them without essential resources ahead of the holiday season.

Police from five Queens precincts are looking for a pair of burglars who targeted independent mom-and-pop drugstores from Fresh Meadows to Astoria throughout December.

The two men allegedly broke into three drugstores in three different neighborhoods in a half-hour during the morning of Sunday, Dec. 15. While one stood guard outside a drugstore at 63-09 39th Avenue in Woodside, his partner broke through the glass front door at 5:50 a.m. Police from the 108th Precinct reported that he removed $400 in cash before leaving.

Dec. 27, 2024 QNS News Team

The Annual Chanukah Celebration, widely recognized as the largest event of its kind in New York City, is set to return to Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows on Monday, Dec. 30.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The real estate listing site StreetEasy presented a series of predictions that 2025 may have in store for the market in New York City in a report by StreetEasy Senior Economist Kenny Lee.

Dec. 27, 2024 By Shane O’Brien

Eviction rates at New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) properties under the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) program decreased slightly in Queens in 2024, bucking a citywide trend that saw eviction rates spike significantly elsewhere in New York.