Jul. 16, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas has filed to run against state Sen. Jessica Ramos in next year’s Democratic primary for Senate District 13.

Jul. 16, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

By the end of June 2025, the median rental price of apartments across New York City reached a record high of $4,700, according to a report by the real estate site RentHop.

Jul. 16, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Consul General of Israel in New York Ofir Akunis paid a special visit to Queens College in Flushing on Wednesday, July 16, where he discussed a variety of topics during a luncheon, including what he felt was a disturbing increase in antisemitism at several college campuses in the United States.

Jul. 16, 2025 By Bill Parry

A senior woman was mugged by a stranger on a residential block in East Elmhurst on the morning of Saturday, July 12, and police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for the perpetrator.

July 15, 2025 By Bill Parry

A Manhattan man was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison on Tuesday for shooting at two cops in broad daylight in the heart of Jackson Heights in 2011. Antonio Olmeda, 66, of Fifth Avenue, was convicted by a jury on two counts of attempted murder and other related crimes after they deliberated for just eight minutes before reaching a verdict on June 27.

Jul. 14, 2025 By Ethan Marshall and Ramy Mahmoud

Queens residents gathered along 37th Avenue in Jackson Heights to celebrate the annual Festival Calle Colombia on Saturday, July 12.

Jul. 14, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Something out of this universe is coming to St. Albans. 

Jul. 11, 2025 By Paulina Albarracin

Wear your best band t-shirt and raise your horns.

Jul. 11, 2025 By jmilitello

July 11, 2025 By Jessica Militello

July 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

An application has recently been filed to replace the Lucky Strike bowling alley at 69-10 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights with a 12-story mixed-use building featuring 263 dwelling units.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Dozens of rideshare and delivery workers gathered at Little Bay Park in Bayside on Wednesday, July 9, for a solemn memorial honoring their colleagues who have died while working for app-based companies.

Jul. 11, 2025 By QNS News Team

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, located at 79-01 Broadway in Elmhurst, has appointed Dr. Sheela Maru as Director and Dr. Ben McVane as Assistant Director of the hospital’s Global Health Institute, the hospital announced Thursday.

Jul. 11, 2025 By jmilitello

July 11, 2025 By Jessica Militello

Jul. 11, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

The Mobile Museum of Tolerance (MMOT), a free, traveling education center providing anti-hate lessons on issues such as tolerance, human rights and social justice, will visit Jackson Heights this Saturday as part of the annual Festival Calle Colombia.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

The second quarter of 2025 marked the first time that the average price for one-to-three-family homes in Queens eclipsed $1 million, according to a report by the real estate agency Brown Harris Stevens.

Jul. 11, 2025 By Dean Moses and QNS News Team

A Queens woman who survived a brutal hammer attack in a subway station in 2022 confronted her assailant in court Thursday, demanding answers and finding some measure of justice as he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

New details have emerged in the case of the Hollis man accused luring a 14-year-old boy into his car in St. Albans and then allegedly raping him on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 1.

Virgilio Taveras, 63, of Hillside Avenue, was arrested by detectives from the Queens Special Victims Squad two days later and booked at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows. Taveras was arraigned on the Fourth of July in Queens Criminal Court on a complaint charging him with rape in the second degree, luring a child as an E felony, endangering the welfare of a child and other related crimes.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Athena Dawson

Dozens gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Queens Borough Hall on Wednesday, July 9, to celebrate the completion of a major renovation of Queens Borough Plaza.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Julie Won and her husband, Eugene Noh, are denouncing what they call “sexist” and “misogynistic” scrutiny of their relationship following Noh’s appointment as campaign manager for Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election bid.

Police from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills and Transit District 20 are looking for a suspect who allegedly flashed a 13-year-old girl on a Queens subway train last month.

The victim was riding a southbound E train approaching the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station at around 1 p.m. on Monday, June 30, when she saw a stranger exposing himself to her, police said Wednesday. The perpetrator ran off the train at the Kew Gardens-Union Turnpike station and fled in an unknown direction. The youngster was not injured during her encounter with the stranger.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Ethan Marshall

Queens saw a year-over-year increase in the median sales price of co-ops, condos, and one-to-three-family homes during the second quarter of 2025, even as both inventory and the number of closed sales declined, according to a report by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

July 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Jul. 10, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

Asian supermarket 99 Ranch Market will open its first New York City location in Flushing on Friday, July 25, debuting a 37,000-square-foot facility that combines grocery shopping, dining and entertainment under one roof.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Shane O’Brien

Council Member Robert Holden has strongly criticized the city’s Charter Revision Commission (CRC) after the commission outlined a series of proposals that would “fast track” affordable housing across the city and “simplify” reviews of housing and infrastructure projects in an interim report released at the beginning of July.

Jul. 10, 2025 By Czarinna Andres

The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) on Thursday launched a limited sale of authentic “Welcome to Queens” street signs, celebrating the city’s most diverse borough through its monthly sign drop initiative.