Aug. 11, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are looking for a gunman who allegedly shot a 30-year-old woman on Beach 17th Street and the Rockaway Beach Boardwalk near the Ocean Bay Apartments early Sunday morning. The suspect fired shots just before 3:10 a.m. on Aug. 10 near…
Apr. 18, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Grand larcenies maintained a significant downward trend across all of Queens and murders and rapes had substantial declines in southern Queens during the 28-day period ending on April 6, compared to the same period of time the previous year, according to the NYPD. In northern Queens, grand larcenies…
Feb. 7, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Reported rapes across both northern and southern Queens are on the rise during the 28-day period ending on Feb. 2, compared to the same period of time the previous year. However, robberies and grand larcenies have undergone significant declines across both northern and southern Queens. Northern and southern…
Queens detectives are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a man early on Sunday morning. Police sources said the murder happened at about 3:04 a.m. on Nov. 24 in the rear of a store at 1025 Beach 20th St. in Far Rockaway. Officers from the 101st Precinct, in responding to a 911…
Sep. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry A Springfield Gardens man was arrested on board an MTA Q113 bus in Far Rockaway on Saturday morning after an MTA inspector informed police that the suspect entered through a rear door to avoid paying the fare. Dennis Espinal, 42, of 230th Street, was taken into custody just…
Aug. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are still looking for a gunman who shot and wounded two men in the parking lot of the Beach Channel Shopping Center near Bayswater Park more than three weeks ago. The shooting incident occurred on the night of Monday, Aug.…
Aug. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man could spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting at cops at the Ocean Bay Apartments in Edgemere during the early morning of Saturday, July 27, following a night of heavy drinking. Joel Kelly, 60, of Beach 92nd Street, was arraigned in…
Jun. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry
An Arverne man was sentenced in Queens Supreme Court to ten years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the vicious attack on a taxi driver following a confrontation over an unpaid fare from Manhattan to Far Rockaway in 2022.
May. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry
There is a manhunt underway in the Rockaways for a pair of gunmen who shot and wounded two teenagers on a basketball court at the Ocean Bay apartments in Bayswater on Wednesday afternoon.
May. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry
Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are looking for two brazen burglars who stole a safe from a newly constructed religious establishment in Bayswater in broad daylight on Tuesday afternoon.