Category: Queens

Forest Hills Stadium began to face lawsuits citing excessive noise by its residential neighbors after concert nights became more frequent. Photo by Michael Shain On Monday, a Queens County Supreme Court judge dismissed a large chunk of claims outlined in a lawsuit against Forest Hills Stadium filed by a neighboring homeowner association.  In the suit…

Caregivers, advocates and community members came together in Central Park on Saturday to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. Photo by Erica Price Hundreds of participants gathered in Central Park on Saturday, Oct. 19, for a two-mile walk to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease. The event was organized by CaringKind, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting those affected…

New York is clearly on the frontlines when it comes to facing the escalating impacts of climate change. Nearly one year ago, Brooklyn and Queens were devastated with another record-breaking rainstorm that poured nearly nine inches of rain at JFK Airport, shut down subway lines and flooded basement apartments. A “new normal,” some say. In…

File photo by Lloyd Mitchell A Queens grand jury indicted a Long Island man for manslaughter and other related crimes in a fatal road rage collision on the Long Island Expressway in Queensboro Hill in mid-August. Shaqeem Douglas, 26, of Maple Street in Freeport, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday for allegedly causing…

A street outside Bowne Park was co-named Paul A. Vallone Way in a ceremony on Oct. 19. Photo by Dominick Totino The memory of the beloved late City Council Member Paul Vallone will live on in the Northeast Queens community following the co-naming of a Flushing street and a Bayside school in his honor.  On…

Full cast photo (top left Clay, Baker-Lerner, top right Jael Scott, bottom left Jackson Taitano, bottom right Aviva Pearl Creation. c Courtesy of Ziad Elkawlak Ridgewood-based writer and comedian Aviva Pearl Creation is bringing her work to the stage with the debut of “Clay Mommy” at the Jonah Bokaer Foundation for the Arts in Brooklyn.…

The owner behind Pardon My Sub on Bell Boulevard opened Tyger’s Bowl and Kimbap next door just a few weeks ago. Photo by Iryna Shkurhan Earlier this month, the owner of Pardon My Sub on Bell Boulevard in Bayside opened Tyger’s Bowl and Kimbap, a new Korean fast-casual eatery right next door.  Chris Kim has…

FILE- An NYPD officer puts up crime tape Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Queens detectives are looking for the suspects behind an early-morning shooting on Sunday morning that left a man with bullet wounds to both legs. The gun violence erupted at about 5:06 a.m. on Oct. 20 near the corner of 43rd Avenue and 11th…

When I think of high school, I remember jam-packed hallways, many faces without names and a host of teachers who I would never know and who would never know me. Trust that this kind of anonymity did have its benefit when I wanted to sneak beneath the radar or get away with something. Perhaps, however,…

Rasheen Everett of Lower Manhattan, during his original trial in Queens Supreme Court in 2013, was convicted of murder for the second time on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of strangling a Glendale transgender woman in her Glendale apartment in 2010. Photo by Ellis Kaplan A Manhattan man was convicted of murder for…