Danielle Woodward is a reporter for Patch in New York City, where she covers all things Queens. She came to Patch from the Traverse City Record-Eagle in Northern Michigan, where she's covered business, features and education news. She's also been a copy editor and producer for the Arizona Republic and has written for the online news site, Addiction Now.
Danielle was born and raised on an island in Southeast Michigan (No, it's not as cool as it sounds.) and graduated from Michigan State University in 2015. She lives in Brooklyn with her one-eyed chiweenie, whom she loves more than most people.
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An Elmhurst couple is accused of illegally cramming 15 people into a one-family house they allegedly rented out as five single-room units.
Community Board 1 approved plans for a $2 million renovation of the baseball field, including regraded turf, new bleachers and a new dugout.
The 19-year-old was found dead roughly a half-mile from his home, riddled with bullets to his neck and chest, police say.
Cops are investigating the death of the man found with a massive head injury in Little Neck.
"They want us to pay for what they did to make the congestion so terrible," said President Michael Feiner. "I think it's ludicrous."
A 15-year-old boy was found dead, with gunshot wounds to his torso, in the stairwell of a Far Rockaway apartment building, police say.
One Queens subway rider didn't like it when another passenger told him to turn down his music - so he stabbed him in the hand, police said.
Food Envy highlighted Chip NYC in Astoria for having what it says have been praised as "the best cookies in the world.
The Central Queens Y in Forest Hills will celebrate Dr. King's day with a story of the first prosecutor to fight the Klu Klux Klan and win.
A Forest Hills deacon says his church operated for years without a certificate of occupancy. Now it's being ordered to get one or get out.
One person is in critical condition and at least two more were seriously injured in the blaze that broke out Friday, fire officials say.
Investigators found eight guns, ecstasy, crack and $30,000 worth of marijuana in a raid, police say.
The man, donning Santa's signature beard and red hat, and his less-festive partner are also linked to a Woodside heist, police say.
Passengers can expect delays on E, F, M and R trains after water got onto the tracks in the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt station, the MTA said.
"We’ve been on strike for 10 months now, that’s unheard of in this city," D'Anthony Johnson told Community Board 6. "We are struggling."
Residents claim cops need to work harder to bridge the disconnect between themselves and the Queens neighborhoods they serve.
The man was punched in the face aboard a Manhattan-bound E train, police say.
Police arrested a woman in the Flushing hit-and-run that killed a 77-year-old woman on her way home from church Wednesday morning.
The Brooklyn man was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison for prostituting girls as young as 14 years old.
The elderly woman was killed just blocks away from her home in Flushing Wednesday morning, police say.
