August 11, By Michael Florio
Drivers will want to avoid Queens Blvd on the weekend of August 19-21.
The Department of Transportation will be shutting down the main Queens Blvd roadways by the Queens Center Mall that weekend.
The DOT will be closing the six-lane main roadways along Queens Blvd between 57th Ave and 62nd Drive from Friday,…
August 10, By Hannah Wulkan
The city will be conducting a survey testing civic engagement in Jackson Heights, Sunnyside and Woodside on Saturday, examining how involved people are in the community and how to increase that participation.
Volunteers with the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit will be conducting a door-to-door survey throughout the neighborhoods on Saturday.…
August 10, Staff Report
Police are searching for a man who allegedly grabbed a woman’s buttocks while she was riding the escalator with her son at the 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue station on Saturday.
The 31-year-old victim was riding up the escalator with her 13-year-old son at around 12:50 am August 6 when the suspect grabbed her butt from behind,…
August 9, Staff Report
Two Roosevelt Ave restaurants have been shut down by the Health Department.
Namaste Chautari Restaurant, an Indian establishment located at 74-15 Roosevelt Ave, was shut down on August 4th.
The restaurant received a handful of violations,…
August 8, By Michael Florio
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will be spraying chemicals in Jackson Heights and Astoria Tuesday night an attempt eradicate mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.
Trucks will be spraying from Tuesday at 10 pm through Wednesday 6 a.m.…
August 8, By Michael Florio
A new middle school is set to open in Corona next month that city officials argue will help combat school overcrowding in the district.
I.S. 311, located at 97-11 44th Avenue, will open Sept.…
August 8, By Michael Florio
With school right around the corner, State Sen. Jose Peralta distributed more than 3,000 backpacks stuff with necessities to local students over the weekend.
Peralta hosted his seventh annual Back to School Giveaway on Saturday behind St.…
August 5, Staff Report
Police are searching for two men who allegedly threw a brick through a store window before going on to steal a pair of sunglasses.
The two suspects smashed through the front window of Cocos Vision,…
August 4, By Michael Florio
The Landmarks Preservation Commission once again decided to table a controversial proposal to enlarge a one-story building on 37th Ave.
Developers presented their plan to build four stories of residential units on top of the current one-story commercial building located at 84-11 through 84-23 37th Ave and got a mixed reception from the commission.…
August 2, By Hannah Wulkan
Three Queens teenagers have been charged with breaking in to a FDNY firehouse in Jackson Heights at about 2 a.m. on Monday morning, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today.
The defendants, identified as Christian Gaguancella,…