August 30, by Nathaly Pesantez
The Holiday Inn Express, which has been renting out rooms to the city to house the homeless for more than a year, is being phased out as a shelter by 2019 as part of Mayor de Blasio’s plan to stop using hotels as shelters throughout the city.…
August 30, By Tara Law
State Senator Jose Peralta (D-Elmhurst) is calling on the Assembly to pass a bill that would help the community keep tabs on troublesome bars and shut them down as need be.
Peralta, who sponsored and passed such legislation in the state senate in June,…
August 28, by Nathaly Pesantez
Several Queens politicians voiced their opposition yesterday to a proposal that would charge commuters a toll for using the Queensboro bridge—and three bridges in Brooklyn–citing the effect on middle class New Yorkers and small businesses in the outer boroughs.…
August 25, by Nathaly Pesantez
Blink Fitness, which operates low-cost gymnasiums in several states, has opened up its newest location in Corona.
The health club is located at 108-14 Roosevelt Ave., and opened its doors on Aug. 24 in a ribbon cutting ceremony.…
August 25, by Nathaly Pesantez
The number of families with children from the western Queens neighborhood of Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona who have entered homeless shelters has gone up in recent years, according to a newly released report on homelessness in the city.…
August 24, by Nathaly Pesantez
Elected officials are urging US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to deport a 92-year-old former Nazi guard living in Jackson Heights.
In an Aug. 23 letter to Tillerson, Congressman Joseph Crowley (D- Jackson Heights) and 20 other signees call on him to use his clout to deport Jakiw Palij,…
August 23, Staff Report
Pesticides will be sprayed over several western Queens neighborhoods Thursday as part of a mosquito control initiative, according to the Department of Health (DOH).
Tomorrow night, August 24, trucks will drive and spray sections of Astoria,…
August 23, by Nathaly Pesantez
69 Coffee Shop in Woodside has been temporarily shut down by the department of health.
The shop, located at 50-01 69th Street, closed after an Aug. 21 inspection by the DOH that found 64 violations,…
August 22, Staff Report
A former Queens resident who evaded justice by residing in the Dominican Republic for more than a decade was sentenced to 24 years in prison yesterday after being found guilty of manslaughter stemming from the disappearance of his estranged girlfriend,…
August 21, Staff Report
The police are looking for two suspects who allegedly robbed a man inside an elevator at the Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street subway station on August 12.
At approximately 4:54 p.m., the pair—a man and a woman–followed the 51-year-old victim into the elevator and demanded money.…