Dec. 18, 2024 By Shane O’Brien A Forest Hills homeowners group has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the operators of Forest Hills Stadium due to the “harms caused” by the yearly concert series at the stadium. Forest Hills Garden Corp (FHGC), a homeowners association whose members live by the venue, has…
Dec. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry First responders pulled the body of a woman from the frigid waters off Rockaway Park on Friday morning, and investigators are working to determine how she died. Police from the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach responded to a 911 call at 8:44 a.m. reporting a person in the…
Dec. 6, 2024 By Bill Parry One day after Mayor Eric Adams expressed his willingness to collaborate with the incoming Trump administration on addressing the migrant crisis and signaled a readiness to meet with former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) head Tom Homan, Council Member Robert Holden called on the mayor to reopen…
Dec. 5, 2024 By Colum Motherway Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the NYPD have announced the indictment of 11 alleged members after a three-and-a-half-year investigation, entitled ‘Operation: Deadliest Catch,’ into gang violence in Southeast Queens. The alleged members are from the ‘Whole Blocc Boys’ (WBB) and ‘Score On Anything’ (SOA) – two subsets…
Dec. 4, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The number of reported rapes across southern Queens dropped significantly during the 28-day period from Nov. 4 to Dec. 1, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the latest crime stats from the NYPD. Additionally, grand larcenies continued to trend down across both northern…
Nov. 12, 2024 By Czarinna Andres In a step to end the city’s battle with “ghost cars”—vehicles with counterfeit, obscured, or missing license plates—Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar has introduced the Ghostbuster Act. The Ghostbuster Act takes a comprehensive approach to tackle ghost cars by empowering law enforcement to boot or tow vehicles with counterfeit…
Nov. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A motorcyclist from Jamaica was killed in a crash near Mount Olivet Cemetery in Middle Village on Friday afternoon. Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision at 69th Street and Eliot Avenue at 5:15 p.m., where they found the…
Oct. 31, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park are looking for two suspects who groped a woman before robbing her on the night of Saturday, Oct. 26. The 26-year-old victim was walking near the intersection of Glenmore Avenue and 76th Street in Ozone Park at 9:23 p.m. when…
Oct. 30, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The amount of reported grand larcenies across Queens dropped a significant amount across both northern and southern Queens during the 28-day period from Sept. 30 to Oct. 27, compared to the same period of time last year, according to the NYPD’s latest crime stats. Another notable trend over…
Oct. 18, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 106th Precinct in Ozone Park are looking for a cyclist who accosted a 21-year-old woman as she walked at night near the intersection of Cross Bay Boulevard and Liberty Avenue. The incident occurred just after midnight on Monday, Oct. 7, as the stranger rode up…