Up to 770 Far Rockaway public school students learned timely lessons on choosing paths leading them away from gun violence through tennis lessons at Flushing Meadows Corona Park last week. Hosted by…
New York City lawmakers and the NYPD are making an effort to review polices governing low-level marijuana offenders, which they believe would lead to declining prosecution rates. First, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance and Brooklyn…
The borough will be getting its second medical marijuana facility in early summer. Curaleaf New York announced plans to open a location near Austin Street in Forest Hills that will serve patients…
Borough President Melinda Katz honored three war veterans from different eras at the Veterans Memorial Garden at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens last Friday. Before the observance was underway, Katz said…
NewspapersFOREST HILLS — Edward Ruggiero, 58, a resident of Long Beach was charged last week with menacing as a hate crime for allegedly threatening to physically assault and verbally attacking a woman for…
The Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade drew thousands of attendees Monday who lined the sidewalks along a 1.5-mile stretch of Northern Boulevard from Jayson Avenue to 245th Street on the 91st anniversary…
A Ridgewood man has been charged with sex trafficking by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for allegedly pimping out two underage girls, 13 and 15, in late 2017. Eddy Florence, 33, was…
NewspapersNot too long ago a guard scolded Victoria Johnson for poking in the planters in front of Rockefeller Center. But the historian wasn’t doing anything wrong. She had simply come to pay her…
The end to the Mets’ miserable May could not come fast enough as the team continues to fall apart. After a red-hot 11-1 start, the Mets have struggled to stay above .500 and have seen…
To continue improving the health of Jamaica Bay, the city Department of Environmental Protection announced last week that it has begun to upgrade the Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant. The goal of the…