Mar. 12, 2024 By ishkurhan Mar. 12, 2024, By Iryna Shkurhan The proposal to double the size and budget of the Long Island City Business Improvement District (BID) is closer to becoming a reality following the advisory approval from Community Board 2 last week. On Thursday, Mar. 7, the board gathered for its first hybrid… Read more »
Mar. 12, 2024 By Ethan Marshall A total of 15 affordable units are up for grabs at a development in southeast Queens, with a monthly rent of $2,300. The affordable units are part of a 7-story building spread across a block in Hollis at 188 Hillside Ave. The development, known as Q-188, has a total…
Read More
Mar. 11, 2024 By Czarinna Andres and Lloyd Mitchell Senior citizens and community organizations across New York held a rally at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens on Thursday, where they called for senior centers to be repaired and upgraded—and for the better services for older adults. Representatives of LiveOn NY, an advocacy group representing more than 4 million seniors and 120 living centers throughout the state, led the rally where the attendees demanded structural repairs and upgrades of senior center complexes. They also seek an increase in staffing to meet the needs of the growing senior population. The attendees…
Read More
Mar. 11, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The office of Queens Borough President Donovan Richards announced Monday that it has received a total of 843 applications for positions on one of the borough’s 14 community boards this spring. Of the 843 applications, 592 were from people who are not already part of the community board. Since…
Read More
Mar. 11, 2024 By bparry
[caption id="attachment_72252" align="alignnone" width="606"] A 13-year-old boy was arrested and charged with hate crime assault for an anti-gay attack in Astoria late last month. Three other suspects remain at large. Photos courtesy of the NYPD[/caption]
Mar. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry
Mar. 11, 2024 By Bill Parry
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Ruhel Choudhury, a used car salesman wanted for his alleged involvement in violent kidnappings in Woodside and Jamaica last year.
Mar. 8, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Rev. Al Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network, a New York-based civil rights organization, joined several community leaders at a church in East Elmhurst Thursday to discuss the high rate of unemployment among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers. Sharpton, who spoke at the First Baptist Church of…
Read More
Mar. 8, 2024 By admin Mar. 8, 2024 By Czarinna Andres and QNS Staff Award-winning children’s book author Jesse Byrd talked to fourth-grade students at P.S. 193Q Alfred J. Kennedy Tuesday as part of a program that helps elementary school students write their own children’s book. Byrd hosted an interactive reading of his new book… Read more »
Mar. 8, 2024 By ishkurhan Mar. 8, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan St. Patrick’s Day is fast approaching on Mar. 17, and celebrations have already begun, with an array of events lined up for the following weekend to extend the festive spirit. The Wolfhound on 30th Ave. in Astoria is hosting its second annual bar crawl… Read more »
Mar. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Queens man and his five co-conspirators from Brooklyn were arrested by federal agents on Tuesday and charged with smuggling raw goose and duck intestines from China for sale to New York City restaurants and consumers.