March 7, 2022 By Christian Murray Elected officials, subway riders and disability rights activists gathered at a subway station in Rego Park Friday to call on New York State to allocate federal infrastructure funds toward the construction of elevators at MTA and LIRR stations. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, Rep. Grace Meng, and disability rights activists… Read more »
March 7, 2022 By Christian Murray A 28-year-old man was seriously injured after being shot while driving along the Jackie Robinson Parkway Saturday morning in an apparent road-rage incident. The shooter had allegedly cut the victim off while driving westbound on the parkway near Metropolitan Avenue (exit 6) in Forest Hills at around 7:35 a.m.,… Read more »
March 7, 2022 By Christian Murray A motorcyclist is in critical condition and his passenger is in stable condition after crashing into a vehicle that was making an illegal U-turn in Jackson Heights Sunday evening. The motorcycle, driven by a 30-year-old man, collided with a vehicle that was making an illegal U-Turn in the vicinity… Read more »
March 4, 2022 By Christian Murray Armed robberies, vicious assaults and hate crimes have become all too common in New York City in recent months and the borough of Queens is no exception. There have been brutal attacks at subway stations, shootings at NYCHA complexes, to a rash of anti-Asian hate crimes. For the year-to-date… Read more »
March 3, 2022 By Allie Griffin The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey released new public transit proposals Wednesday to get travelers to and from LaGuardia Airport — including the largely unpopular AirTrain plan. The Port Authority has put forward 14 potential mass transit options for the public to consider after the agency… Read more »
This article was originally published by Chalkbeat New York on March. 2, 2022, BY Christina Veiga In his first major policy speech to education department brass, New York City schools Chancellor David Banks offered sharp criticism of the system he inherited. His Wednesday address acknowledged sharp enrollment declines, lingering concerns over school safety both from… Read more »
This article was originally published by Chalkbeat New York on Feb. 28, 2022, BY Christina Veiga Just over half of New York City public school students are fully vaccinated, according to data the education department released Friday. In total, 59 percent of the city’s public school students have received at least one vaccine dose and… Read more »
March 2, 2022 By Christian Murray A Jackson Heights man was convicted Tuesday of raping a woman who was a guest in his apartment in January 2019. Ahmed Shamim, 35, was found guilty of first-degree rape for sexually violating a 25-year-old woman who had just moved into his apartment after arriving from Bangladesh to attend… Read more »
March 2, 2022 By Christian Murray A 29-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint as he entered the lobby of his Jackson Heights apartment building last week. The victim was entering the building at 34-15 94th St. at around 9:40 p.m. on Friday when two men approached him from behind. One of the men then pulled… Read more »
March 1, 2022 By Christian Murray The number of Queens residents who applied to be on a local community board in 2022 was the second highest year on record. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced Monday that his office received 884 applications from residents seeking an appointment to one of the borough’s 14 community boards… Read more »