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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Students and staff evacuated Benjamin N. Cardozo High School after its principal received a threat of explosives at the school, police said.
The woman jumped from a window of a third-story apartment while trying to flee police during a vice operation, according to the NYPD.
Joel Mansbach quit his advertising job 20 years ago, eager to do something he was passionate about.
The two men stole his wallet and later tried to purchase merchandise with his credit cards, police say.
The company is offering a $50,000 reward in an effort to find the culprits.
The 91st annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through Midtown, Manhattan, complete with floats, bands and giant balloons.
The "Cran-Slam" specialty pizza is sold in Queens and features a three-course Thanksgiving meal atop a traditional mozzarella pie.
Fill your stomach and make some new friends at these community Thanksgiving dinners in Queens.
Check which new food vendor sites are coming to your neighborhood.
50 Cent's charity, G-Unity, unloaded the turkeys and other Thanksgiving foods from a U-Haul in front of a South Jamaica church.
Police have yet to confirm whether burglaries reported by six businesses along Bell Boulevard this weekend are connected.
National anti-bullying speaker Tom Thelen spoke at the event as part of a "No Bullying Zone" campaign by Vallo Transportation.
The man was shot in the leg after three men tried to invade his home in Jamaica, police say.
The middle school, slated to host nearly 700 students, will replace an old parking garage on the corner of 48th Street in Long Island City.
The Bangladesh immigrant, who was told to buy a plane ticket for deportation, will spend Thanksgiving in America with his family after all.
A teenage boy has been hospitalized after he was shot in the stomach Friday afternoon, an NYPD spokesman said.
A New York State Assemblyman from Bayside aims to close a loophole in the state's laws that allows police to have sex with detainees.
The doctor and an unlicensed plastic surgeon allegedly performed over 60 illegal operations.
The Peter Cardella Senior Citizen Center in Ridgewood, Queens, took home the fifth annual Ready New York Senior Center of the Year award.
The petition, which aims to curb "reckless speeding" in Forest Hills, has garnered more than 850 signatures.
