See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Students at an overcrowded Long Island City elementary school located at 48-09 Center Boulevard are not getting enough exercise because their playground is too small to accommodate proper…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled in favor of the 5Pointz artists Monday, ordering developer Jerry Wolkoff to pay $6.7 million in compensation for ordering the whitewashing of the world f…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Naeisha Rose TimesLedger Newspapers An elderly woman was reported missing Friday within the confines of the 113th Precinct, according to the NYPD. St. Albans resident Elverine Thomas, 70, suffers from poor mental health a…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Gina Martinez TimesLedger Newspapers Police were searching for a man wanted for questioning in connection with a grand larceny pattern in Flushing. Between Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017 and Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 a suspect remove…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Naeisha Rose TimesLedger Newspapers The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has ended a pilot program that restricted prison packages earlier last month, which Governor Andrew Cuomo, Assembl…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers In the wake of a fatal car crash that took the life of a 13-year-old Ridgewood boy, state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D-Astoria) is calling on his colleagues to pass his bill that would increa…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers As the 2018 tax season got underway last week, state Sen. Jose Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) launched free tax preparation services at his district office on Junction Boulevard. Peralta teame…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Bill Parry TimesLedger Newspapers Construction of the massive Hallets Point development in Astoria has stalled after City Hall pulled funding for Building 7, a 14-story structure with all of its 163 units set to be below-…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By TimesLedger Staff TimesLedger Newspapers Selma, Birmingham, and Little Rock — names of the most famous battlegrounds of the civil rights movement. But not every fight for equality in the U.S. took place in the old C…
See this story at TimesLedger.com . By Mark Hallum TimesLedger Newspapers Mayor Bill de Blasio released his preliminary budget for FY2019 on Feb. 1 with no mention of providing funding toward public transportation, even as commuters face an ongoing crisis on t…