Oct. 28, 2024 By Shane O’Brien Hundreds of people gathered at the 90th Street Triangle on the Jackson Heights/Elmhurst border Sunday afternoon to rally for continued support in fighting crime on the Roosevelt Avenue Corridor. This comes after Mayor Eric Adams launched a multi-agency enforcement operation in the area earlier in October. The Public…
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Roosevelt Ave crackdown: Sex workers resist as NYPD and City Hall target prostitution and illegal vending in Corona
The raids continue on Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue a week after City Hall declared war on the prostitution and other illegal businesses that have long lined the thoroughfare. Late Monday night, cops shuttered an alleged brothel located at 90-25 Roosevelt Ave. in Corona as part of the “Operation Restore Roosevelt” program. The darkened windows had…
Gunmen still at large weeks after Douglaston drive-by shooting leaves two men wounded: NYPD
Oct. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are still looking for two gunmen more than three weeks after a drive-by shooting in Douglaston left two men wounded. The incident went down on the night of Saturday, Oct. 5, with the two victims sitting in a car at the…
Queens DA paralegal fired after arrest for threatening to bomb Elmhurst migrant shelter
Oct. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry An Elmhurst man was fired from his job as a paralegal at the Queens District Attorney’s office after he was arrested and criminally charged late last month for threatening to bomb a migrant shelter across the street from his home on 77th Street just south of Roosevelt Avenue.…
Former client sentenced for murdering prominent immigration attorney in his Flushing law office: DA
Oct. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing woman was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for stabbing her immigration attorney to death in 2022, just days after he dropped her as a client, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday. Xiaoning Zhang, 27, of Kissena Boulevard, was found guilty by a…