April 22, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an anti-Asian assault that occurred on board an R train in Long Island City on the night of Wednesday, April 16. A 29-year-old woman was riding a northbound R train approaching Queens Plaza subway station just before 7 p.m. when an… Read more »
Apr. 16, 2025 By bparry April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry Police are searching for a serial burglar who targeted mail rooms in at least five Queens apartment buildings last month — including one Jackson Heights location he struck three times, authorities said. Police from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are looking for…
Apr. 16, 2025 By bparry April 16, 2025 By Bill Parry A Long Island man was sentenced to 3 ½ to seven years in prison Tuesday in connection with five residential apartment mailbox thefts in Queens last year. Brandon Sestoso, 43, of McAlester Avenue in Hicksville, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court on March…
Apr. 15, 2025 By Czarinna Andres April 15, 2025 By Dean Moses Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation into the fatal police shooting of a 61-year-old man experiencing a mental health crisis while armed with a knife on a public sidewalk in Astoria, her office announced Tuesday. Police brass said that they…
Apr. 15, 2025 By bparry April 15, 2025 By Bill Parry A Queens grand jury has indicted nine individuals in connection with the sale and possession of controlled substances—including fentanyl, cocaine, and crack—following a 17-month investigation into a drug-dealing crew operating on 95th Street in Jackson Heights, District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday. Undercover…
Apr. 14, 2025 By bparry April 14, 2025 By Bill Parry An Astoria woman is accused of driving without a license when she crashed her car into a crowd of pedestrians, injuring two girls and an adult male in front of Our World Neighborhood Charter School on 35th Avenue on the afternoon of Thursday,…
Apr. 14, 2025 By Czarinna Andres April 14, 2025 By Dean Moses and Queens Post News Team A knife-wielding man was fatally shot by police during an encounter early Monday morning in Astoria, according to authorities. The police-involved shooting occurred just before 6:30 a.m. on April 14 near the intersection of 31st Street and…
Apr. 10, 2025 By Czarinna Andres April 10, 2025 By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force arrested an Astoria man on Wednesday for vandalizing a religious statue and menacing a priest inside the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church on Sunday. Jose Rodriguez, 38, from Shore Boulevard in the Marine Terrace apartments, was taken…
April 8, 2025 By Bill Parry Police from the 108th Precinct in Long Island City are looking for a suspect who assaulted a 66-year-old man in an unprovoked attack inside a Queens Plaza Starbucks just before noon on Wednesday, April 2. The two men were standing next to each other in line at the coffee… Read more »
Queens detectives are on the hunt for a brute who assaulted an 86-year-old woman last week because she asked to move so she could pass him in an apartment building hallway. According to police sources, the attack occurred inside the Ravenswood Houses located at 23-03 36th Ave. in Astoria at around 7 p.m. on…