March 30, 2023 By Zach Gewelb Police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her residence at the Ravenswood Houses in Astoria on Wednesday morning. Authorities say that Ayana Farmer was last seen leaving Ravenswood Houses, located at 35-06 21st St., at approximately 8:20 a.m. on March 29. She has a… Read more »
March 25, 2023 By Zach Gewelb A 29-year-old man was hospitalized after jumping in front of a northbound 7 train at the Hunters Point Avenue station in Long Island City on Friday, March 24. 7 trains are running with extensive delays in both directions after emergency teams responded to a person who was struck by… Read more »
March 17, 2023 By Bill Parry In a sure sign the MTA is about to embark on a long-awaited project to renovate subway stations along the elevated 7 train from Woodside to Corona, RockFarmer Properties announced Judlau Contracting LLC has signed a long-term lease for office space at Heritage Tower in Jackson Heights. Judlau Contracting,… Read more »
March 13, 2023 By Bill Parry To commemorate the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic citywide shutdown, the Queens World Film Festival is collaborating with the Zip Code Memory Project and a number of Queens-based cultural institutions for the premiere of “Together, Not Alone,” at The Local in LIC on Sunday, March 19. The event… Read more »
March 13, 2023 By Gabriele Holtermann Members and allies of the Western Queens Community Land Trust (WQCLT) showed their love for fellow member Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston at a solidarity rally outside the NYC Department of Education (DOE) building at 44-46 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City on March 12. Marston has been on a… Read more »
March 11, 2023 By Gabriele Holtermann Local artist and activist Lashawn “Suga Ray” Marston is on a hunger strike and sleep-in outside the publicly owned NYC Department of Education building at 44-46 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City. The Long Island City resident, who grew up at Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in… Read more »
Feb. 23, 2023, By Zachary Gewelb A 17-year-old was arrested after he was caught clinging to the back of 7 train departing from the Queensboro Plaza station in Long Island City on Wednesday, just two days after a 15-year-old boy was killed in a subway surfing incident on the Williamsburg Bridge. Authorities say that officers… Read more »
Dec. 21, 2022 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (no relation) are at odds over the mayor’s suggestion that the council cut its nearly $600 million discretionary budget in half as a means of fiscal belt-tightening amid the growing expense of the migrant crisis currently engulfing the Big Apple…. Read more »
Dec. 22, 2022 By Bill Parry A man was critically injured in a hit-and-run collision on Borden Avenue in Long Island City Wednesday night, according to authorities. The man, in his 60s, was struck by the driver of a U-Haul truck near the intersection of Borden Avenue and 21st Street at around 9:30 p.m. on… Read more »