Dec. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry Flushing resident Quiming Wan was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday morning for the November 2021 murder and sexual abuse of Jiaomei Zhou, a 29-year-old woman whose battered body he carried from his blood-soaked apartment to the lobby before being…
Dec. 2, 2024 By Czarinna Andres Dec. 2, 2024 By Ramy Mahmoud and Queens Post Staff Elmhurst residents came together to celebrate the start of the holiday season on Monday, Nov. 25, for the annual Holiday Tree Lighting at Veteran’s Grove Playground. The festive event, which kicked off at 5 p.m. on Judge St. and… Read more »
Nov. 25, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_85238" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Cops are looking for this suspect who allegedly stabbed a 16-year-old boy who was waiting for the 7 train at Corona Plaza last week. NYPD[/caption]
Nov. 25, 2024 By Bill Parry
Nov. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside are looking for a brazen pickpocket who allegedly targeted a senior in broad daylight at a bus stop on Bell Boulevard on Wednesday, Nov. 6. An 85-year-old man withdrew $1,700 from an ATM at the Citibank branch at 39-01 Bell Blvd.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…