March 19, 2019 By Meghan Sackman Residents and city workers will be removing graffiti Wednesday to help combat a problem that has been plaguing Jackson Heights and surrounding neighborhoods in recent times. Workers will be cleaning graffiti off 48 buildings known to have been tagged, many by gangs. The event, dubbed the Queens Graffiti Clean Up… Read more »
March 18, 2019, By Meghan Sackman The police are investigating the cause of death of a man who died inside his Jackson Heights apartment this morning. Police responded to a 911 call around 7:42 a.m. regarding an unconscious man who was inside his apartment at 35-01 93rd St. They found Hector Fernandez, 40, unconscious and… Read more »
March 15, 2019 By Meghan Sackman All 14 city council members who represent Queens districts received high scores on their efforts to pass green legislation in 2018, according to a report released by the New York League of Conservation Voters last week. The report, called the NYC Council Environmental Score Card, evaluated all 51 city… Read more »
March 15, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan Two men are wanted in connection to a violent gang assault and stabbing that took place last week outside Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst. Three men, one man who is now custody, allegedly approached an 18-year-old male in front of the mall at around 4:15 p.m. on March 8… Read more »
March 13. 2019 By Jon Cronin In this game of Bingo, when you win, you’ve lost time and maybe some money. Members of the Riders Alliance, a transit advocacy group, asked Queens commuters at the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue station Sunday to fill out bingo cards to document their subway horror stories. Riders filled the cards… Read more »
March 13, 2019 By Meghan Sackman The police are searching for a man who allegedly bit off a portion of a security guard’s finger after he was denied entry into a Jackson Heights bar last month. The security guard, 37, was closing down El California Sports Bar, located at 76-03 Roosevelt Ave., on Feb. 16… Read more »
March 12, 2019 By Meghan Sackman Police are searching for a man who allegedly grabbed an 18-year-old woman’s buttocks outside the 74th Street-Roosevelt Avenue station last month. The suspect allegedly touched the teenager while she was walking to the station on Monday, Feb. 8 at around 4:30 p.m. The victim, a quick-thinking teen, however, followed… Read more »
March 12, 2019, By Meghan Sackman An East Elmhurst street was co-named “Mount Everest Way” Saturday, as local leaders paid tribute to the growing contribution of the Nepali-American community. Council Member Costa Constantinides held a ceremony to unveil the new street name, which went up on the corner of 75th Street and 31st Avenue. “Queens… Read more »
March 11, 2019, By Meghan Sackman A town hall meeting is planned to take place in Jackson Heights on Saturday that will provide the public with the ability to weigh in on the quality and needs of public schools with newly-elected officials such as Congress Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Jackson Heights People for Public Schools,… Read more »
March 8, 2019 Staff Report A Jackson Heights man was arrested yesterday after allegedly fondling a 13-year-old girl twice on separate occasions while on trains in Queens and Manhattan last month. Walter Polanco, a 66-year-old who lives on 92nd Street, was charged with stalking to the second degree and forcible touching, and is accused of… Read more »