Sep. 10, 2024 By sobrien Sept. 10, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Around 100 street vendors and activists gathered in Corona Monday afternoon to protest against the NYPD’s alleged illegal destruction of vendor carts and to call on the New York City Council to grant more food vendor permits. The protest, organized by the Street Vendor… Read more »
Sep. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry A 68-year-old man was brutally assaulted by a stranger in broad daylight near the entrance to Francis Lewis Park in Whitestone on Sunday afternoon, and police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are asking for the public’s help in tracking down his assailant. The random attack occurred just…
Sep. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 109th Precinct in Flushing are looking for a strangler who robbed a 63-year-old woman in Queensboro Hill on the night of Thursday, Aug. 29. The victim was walking on a residential block near the intersection of Frame Place and Maple Avenue just before midnight, when…
Sep. 5, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing man was criminally charged in the fatal stabbing of his wife in front of horrified customers at a Kissena Boulevard spa during the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 3. Jiahai Ma, 25, of Cherry Avenue, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday evening on a criminal…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses and Lloyd Mitchell A man was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in an apparent fit of rage inside a Flushing spa, authorities said. According to police sources, officers from the 109th Precinct responded to a frantic 911 call that a female worker was…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Dean Moses and Lloyd Mitchell A Queens husband was arrested Tuesday night for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in an apparent fit of rage inside a Queens spa, authorities said. According to police sources, officers from the 109th Precinct responded to a frantic 911 call that a female worker…
Sep. 3, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The amount of reported rapes and burglaries across Queens had notable increases during the 28-day period from Aug. 5 to Sept. 1, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. However, grand larcenies took a deep dive across the borough…
Aug. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A manhunt is underway in southeast Queens for a sexual predator who allegedly kidnapped a 9-year-old girl at a Queens Village supermarket while she was grocery shopping with her grandmother on Thursday evening. The abduction occurred inside the Key Food at 213-22 Jamaica Ave. just after 7:20 p.m.,…
Aug. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing man was indicted by a Queens grand jury for stealing a Sefer Torah from a Far Rockaway yeshiva in May. Saul Colon, 37, of Parsons Boulevard, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Monday on the indictment charging him with grand larceny and burglary for taking…
Aug. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst and Transit District 20 are looking for a creep who exposed himself to a 7 train rider while she was aboard a Flushing-bound car approaching the Mets-Willets Point station on the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 21. The incident occurred at around…