Oct. 31 2019. By Shane O’Brien Police arrested and tasered a youth at a Corona subway station last weekend– and the NYPD Transit has been criticized for its actions by State Sen. Jessica Ramos. The NYPD said that officers tasered a 16-year-old after responding to reports of teens threatening each other with knives at the… Read more »
By Josefa Velasquez, Christine Chung and Rachel Holliday Smith, THE CITY This story was originally published on 10/31/19 by THE CITY The Working Families Party stepped in to shore up Tiffany Cabán’s campaign for Queens district attorney earlier this year when she was just an unknown public defender, helping bring her within a stunning 55… Read more »
Oct. 30, 2019 By Allie Griffin The majority of Queens council members voted today in favor of a plan that will bring hundreds of miles of protected bicycle and bus lanes to city streets. The legislation introduced by Council Speaker Corey Johnson passed the full council by a 35 to 10 vote with two abstentions…. Read more »
Oct. 30, 2019. By Shane O’Brien The MTA will carry out a “blitz inspection” of the elevated subway tracks after yet another piece of debris fell from the tracks in Queens and smashed through the window of a car parked below. The most recent incident of falling subway debris occurred on Tuesday, Oct. 29 under… Read more »
Oct. 30, 2019 By Allie Griffin A man groped a 45-year-old woman onboard a Q35 bus earlier this month and now police are asking for help identifying him. The man was riding onboard the MTA bus on Oct. 10. When the bus neared the corner of 99th Street and 59th Avenue in Corona, he grabbed… Read more »
Oct. 29, 2019 By Allie Griffin Two apartments in a newly-constructed North Corona building are now on offer through the city’s affordable housing lottery. Two one-bedrooms units will be awarded to lottery winners for $1,700 a month in a new building at 105-05 Northern Blvd. Applications for the units are open to households of one… Read more »
Oct. 29, 2019 By Allie Griffin Police are searching for a scooter-riding bandit who robbed three people in Elmhurst and Corona this month. In three separate incidents, the bandit rode up to victims on a red and yellow scooter, asked if they were gang members and stated he had a firearm while demanding cash and… Read more »
Oct. 28, 2019 By Allie Griffin A 50-year-old man from Jamaica Hills was fatally struck by a car while crossing Astoria Boulevard in East Elmhurst Sunday morning. German Gutierrez was attempting to cross the boulevard north to south near 93rd Street at about 7 a.m. when a 66-year-old man driving a 2016 Lexus SUV westbound… Read more »
Oct. 25, 2019 By Allie Griffin An East Elmhurst woman who was found guilty in August of assaulting a probation officer and animal cruelty has been released from prison for time served. Elizabeth Grant, 51, who had been held on Rikers Island for 14 months on a parole violation, pushed a probation officer down the… Read more »
Oct. 25, 2019. By Shane O’Brien Police are looking for a suspect who shot a man in North Corona in July. The NYPD named the suspect as Jason Campbell, 31, in relation to a non-fatal shooting that took place on Friday, July 12. Campbell allegedly shot the 26-year-old victim once in the head in front… Read more »