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Also: A J. Crew Factory will open at Bay Terrace Shopping Center. | A man accused of attempted rape in Long was arrested.

Tenants including Hosang gathered at the Queens Housing Court on Thursday morning to rally against evictions in the city.
Queens Community House, located at 108-25 62nd Drive, will offer salsa classes to parents and teens on Mondays and Wednesdays.
The services, funded by the Champlain Hudson Power Express project, will run out of 14th Laundry.
The 5,741-square-foot clothing store is expected to open in late spring or early summer.
Damel Dennis was arrested after trying to rape a 34-year-old woman in a bathroom inside a building, police said.
Also: The Wingate by Wyndham hotel in Long Island City will shelter asylum seekers. | Walgreens in Forest Hills will shutter next week.
Residents in Northeastern Queens can go to Edge City Church located at 46-16 Little Neck Parkway to donate supplies for babies.
The Wingate by Wyndham hotel, located at 38-70 12th Street, will be the city’s seventh Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center.
The pharmacy located at 63-37 108th Street will close on Feb. 20.
About $1.2 million will go toward funding the geology and environmental science programs, as well as student stipends and equipment.
Luis Cayancela Paredes, from Elmhurst, was crossing Roosevelt Avenue, near 111th Street, when he was struck by a 2021 Toyota Tundra.
Lawmakers are asking the LIRR interim president to reopen the station after it was shut down in 1960.
Also: Nearly two dozen gang members were indicted after shootings in Astoria and Woodside. | Bayside High School is designing a biodome.
Bayside High School is on track to break ground on its glass-encased biodome to provide students with training in environmental training.
The funding, secured by Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, will help install neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery operating room equipment.
Queens Community House, located at 108-25 62nd Drive, will offer sessions in English and Spanish starting next week.
“Too many passengers place their pets in an X-ray unit at checkpoints," Transportation Security Administration officials say.
The crossfire 2021 killing of Astoria mom Gudelia Vallinas led to a probe that eventually snared “the alphas of the gangs,” a top cop said.
Police are searching for the men that robbed five people in Astoria, Jackson Heights, Flushing, and Forest Hills on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13.