April 4, 2018 By Tara Law The Jackson Heights community will mark the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination with a candlelight vigil tonight. Civic groups, Councilmember Daniel Dromm and NY Assembly candidate Catalina Cruz will lead a service honoring King’s legacy at the Jackson Heights Post Office at 78-02 37th Ave…. Read more »
April 3, 2018 By Tara Law A developer has filed plans to build an 8-story mixed-use apartment building that to go up next to the Holiday Inn LaGuardia Airport in Corona. The 70-foot-tall building would be located at 37-10 114th St. and house 90 apartment units and an ambulatory medical center. The building would be 173,909… Read more »
April 3, 2018 By Staff Report Registration has opened for the 3rd annual LIC Post Waterfront 5K, which will take place in June to raise money for the Hunters Point Parks Conservancy. The event, scheduled for Saturday, June 2 at 9:00 a.m, is for both runners and walkers, and as many as 1,500 attendees are… Read more »
April 2, 2018 Staff Report Two men wanted for a series of gun-point robberies throughout Queens struck a bodega on Woodside Friday. The suspects entered a grocery store at 69-03 Northern Blvd. at around 12:35 a.m., March 30. One man displayed a gun and demanded cash while the other walked behind the counter to grab… Read more »
March 30, 2018 By Christian Murray The police have arrested two men for the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man inside a Jackson Heights bodega last week. Fabian Dejesus-Garcia, 28, of Flushing, and Gamaliel Desiderio-Sanchez, 28, from the Bronx, were both arrested this week and face murder and weapons charges. The men allegedly worked in… Read more »
March 29, 2017 By Tara Law Community members asked Mayor Bill de Blasio questions about real estate development and school safety at a town hall in Jackson Heights Wednesday night. About 600 residents packed into the gymnasium of Joseph Pulitzer Middle School for a chance to speak directly to the mayor. Multiple residents told the… Read more »
March 28, 2018 By Tara Law Archer Hardware Store, which has been in Jackson Heights for 79 years, will close Saturday. Vasantal “Victor” Mehta, 72, has operated the store at 73-21 Broadway with his wife, Jayaovaben, for 35 years. The pair have decided that its time to retire. Mehta, who moved to Queens as a… Read more »
March 28, 2018 By Tara Law Two restaurants–one in Elmhurst and the other in Jackson Heights–have been closed temporarily by the Health Department. He Lin Restaurant, a Chinese eatery at 83-11 Broadway in Elmhurst, was closed for the third time in three years. He Lin racked up 51 sanitary violation points when it was inspected… Read more »
March 27, 2018 By Tara Law Legislators from across Queens condemned the Commerce Department’s decision to include a question in the 2020 Census about citizenship status for the first time since 1950. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, announced Monday that the upcoming census will ask respondents to identify… Read more »
March 26, 2018 By Tara Law A Bronx man has confessed to burglarizing a number of apartments across Queens— including in Elmhurst and Astoria— in the past year, the Queens District Attorney announced Friday. Kenneth Dellaquila, 59, allegedly broke into a series of apartments on six separate occasions between July 2017 and this month, snatching… Read more »