Dec. 31, 2024 By Czarinna Andres

Hundreds of families on the Rockaway Peninsula enjoyed a brighter holiday season this year, thanks to the St. John’s ICARE Foundation’s annual Community Toy Giveaway.

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 By Colum Motherway

A fierce display of skill and sportsmanship unfolded at the Sportime hockey rink in Bethpage on Saturday, Dec. 28, as Wheel Talk Hockey hosted a high-level three-on-three tournament.

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.

Dec. 31, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Members of the Rockaway community celebrated the start of Hanukkah with menorah lightings across the peninsula. 

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.

A beloved Southeast Queens community leader was struck and killed by the driver of a yellow cab in a chain-reaction crash in South Ozone Park during the early morning hours of Saturday, Dec. 28.

Vidya Dookran-Franco, 51, of Merrick, was picking up food to bring home to her family and was walking on the sidewalk with two men who worked at a nearby restaurant who were escorting her back to her car. As they approached the intersection of Lefferts Boulevard and 115th Avenue at 3:10 a.m. a taxi driver struck another vehicle and jumped the curb and hit the three pedestrians on the sidewalk, police said Sunday.

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.