Jan. 3, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Congestion pricing will come into effect at midnight on Sunday after a federal judge greenlighted the toll following an 11th-hour hearing on Friday evening.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Athena Dawson

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Thursday, Jan. 2, a groundbreaking initiative to expand access to safe e-bike battery charging on sidewalks across the city.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Colum Motherway

The Queens Public Library is continuing its ‘Literary Thursdays’ program for 2025 with a host of talented authors ready to give virtual talks about their work.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Colum Motherway

New York City has taken a major step toward modernizing its waste management system with the launch of its first fully operational commercial waste zone in Central Queens, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) announced Thursday, Jan. 2.

A Queens grand jury indicted a Far Rockaway man for allegedly driving drunk and erratically with his children in his car and crashing into a school bus in November.

Junior Deslances, 42, of Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday on a 21-count indictment charging him with aggravated vehicular assault, aggravated driving while intoxicated, three counts endangering the welfare of a child, and other related crimes, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Friday.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

New York City experienced immense year-over-year growth in homes entering contract in November 2024, leading to a drop in available inventory, according to a report by the real estate listing site StreetEasy.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Hundreds of Queens residents gathered at Queens Borough Hall on Monday, Dec. 30, to celebrate Kwanzaa.

Jan. 3, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Close to 300 probationary firefighters graduated from the FDNY Fire Academy during a ceremony at Queens College at the end of December following more than four months of training on Randall’s Island.

Queens elected officials were left shocked and dismayed by a mass shooting outside a Jamaica event space on New Year’s night that left ten young people injured while they waited to get into a “celebration of life” for a teen who was gunned down in Brooklyn.

An urgent manhunt is underway for the four young men who opened fire on people who were waiting in line outside the Amazura Concert Hall at 91-12 144th Place at around 11:20 p.m. Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica responded to multiple 911 calls of shots fired and arrived at the scene to find six women and four men between the ages of 16 and 19, who suffered gunshot wounds as they ran for their lives when the gunmen fired at least thirty shots.

Jan. 2, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Queens Council Members Robert Holden, Joann Ariola and Vickie Paladino have called on the MTA to pause congestion pricing until a number of ongoing lawsuits are resolved.