June 11, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan An upstate man will serve 11 years in prison for the attempted murder of a woman in Queensbridge, the Queens District Attorney’s office announced today. Snooze Brown, 23, of Middletown, New York pleaded guilty in May to shooting a bystander during a violent altercation with his girlfriend in January… Read more »
June 11, 2019 By Shane O’Brien The MTA held a town hall meeting in Long Island City last night and its leader Andy Byford told the audience that the agency will be installing a new system designed to catch falling debris. Byford, speaking at an MTA Fast Forward event at LaGuardia Community College, said that… Read more »
June 10, 2019 By Staff Report A six-part music program will be kicking off this Thursday on the Long Island City waterfront. The 4th annual “LIC Landing Live,” a summer music series that will feature performances from a variety of artists until Aug. 22, will run every other Thursday from 6 p.m. through 8 p.m…. Read more »
June 7, 2019 By Max Murray The police are looking for seven people who attacked and robbed two men at a Long Island City park last month. The suspects, five men and two women, approached the victims at Rainey Park, located at 34th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard, at around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 16,… Read more »
June 6, 2019 By Christian Murray Plans have been filed for a nine-story building at 27-55 Jackson Ave. The development, which will consist of 40 residential units and ground floor retail space, will replace a prominent three-story brick building on the corner of Jackson Avenue and 42nd Road. The corner building, which was occupied in… Read more »
June 5, 2019 By Max Murray State Senator Michael Gianaris announced yesterday the passage of legislation that would ban cat declawing. The legislation, passed by both the Assembly and Senate Tuesday, would impose a $1,000 fine on any person found guilty of declawing a cat unless the procedure is medically necessary. “Cat declawing is a… Read more »
June 5, 2019 By Meghan Sackman (Updated 2:07 p.m.) Long Island City High School was evacuated this morning after an unidentified man called the school saying there was a bomb inside the building, according to the police. Police arrived at the high school, located at 14-30 Broadway, around 11:30 a.m. to search for explosives, shortly after… Read more »
June 5, 2019 By Max Murray The police are searching for a man who allegedly swiped a 28-year-old woman’s cellphone at the Queens Plaza station in Long Island City last month. On Tuesday May 7, at around 1 p.m., the suspect approached the victim who was sitting on a platform bench waiting for a Jamaica-bound… Read more »
June 4, 2019 Staff Report Nearly 1,500 runners participated in the annual LIC Post Waterfront 5K on Saturday, the most successful run the organizers have had since it began four years ago. The event drew participants young and old, with the oldest runners being in their 70s. The children’s dash, held immediately after the 5K,… Read more »
May 29, 2019 By Laura Hanrahan One thousand new electric mopeds hit the streets of Brooklyn and Queens earlier today after tech startup Revel launched their rent-by-the-minute moped business in the two boroughs. After a successful test run last summer of 68 bikes in Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the moped sharing business will now cover… Read more »