Oct 4, 2022 By Michael Dorgan Calling all entrepreneurs! Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and a local non-profit have launched a new competition aimed at providing entrepreneurs with seed funding to get their start-up businesses off the ground. The contest, called Queens Tech + Innovation Challenge (QTIC), will see entrepreneurs from a wide variety of… Read more »
Oct. 4, 2022 By Max Murray The police are looking for a man who allegedly groped a woman on board a Flushing-bound 7 train in Queens Monday. The suspect allegedly approached a 21-year-old woman at around 6 p.m. on the train as it was approaching the Mets – Willets Point station. The suspect, police say,… Read more »
This article was originally published by The CITY on Oct. 3, 2022 By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Food delivery workers will soon have rest stops to call their own — including charging stations in what are now vacant newsstands, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday in City Hall Park next to one of… Read more »
Oct. 3, 2022 By Czarinna Andres A Connecticut man who drove drunk and killed a dirt bike rider on the Long Island Expressway last year has been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison. Jorge Serrano, 30, was sentenced today to between 4 1/2 to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty last month… Read more »
Oct. 3, 2022 By Michael Dorgan A new family-run grocery store offering products sourced from Asia is set to open in the Court Square section of Long Island City Saturday. The new store, called Ai Mart Asian Market, will open at 21-51 44th Dr., a block away from the 67-story Skyline Tower. Ai Mart Asian… Read more »
Oct. 3, 2022 By Christian Murray Stop & Shop supermarket will be shutting down its 48th Street location in Long Island City later this month, the company has confirmed. A spokesperson for Stop & Shop said the store will close on Oct. 20 after it made a decision at the beginning of the year not to… Read more »
Sept. 30, 2022 By Michael Dorgan An Astoria man has been arrested and charged with murder for the brutal stabbing of an EMS lieutenant in the Ditmars section of the neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Peter Zisopoulos, 34, was arrested by police shortly after he allegedly stabbed 61-year-old Alison Russo-Elling to death at the 20th Avenue and… Read more »
Sept. 29, 2022 By Michael Dorgan Three Queens Councilmembers are co-sponsoring a bill that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database. The bill, which is being co-sponsored by Queens progressives Tiffany Cabán, Julie Won and Shekar Krishnan, would end the database and prevent the police department from compiling a replacement. The NYPD’s gang database is a… Read more »
Sept. 29, 2022 By Michael Dorgan – Updated at 5:55 p.m. A first responder was fatally stabbed in the Ditmars section of Astoria Thursday afternoon — and police have apprehended her alleged attacker after he barricaded himself inside a nearby building. The victim, 61, an on-duty Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) worker, was stabbed in the… Read more »
Sept. 29, 2022 By Christian Murray A hotel on Queens Boulevard in Woodside, which for many years had been used as a homeless shelter to accommodate families in need, is now being used exclusively by single unhoused men, according to multiple sources. The facility, formerly known as the Quality Inn and located at 53-05 Queens… Read more »