Kayla Levy covers all things Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills and Bayside for Patch. She has written for New York Magazine's Curbed and the Strategist, and Time Out. Follow her on Twitter @kaylev and send story tips to kayla.levy@patch.com.
Eater went behind the scenes to see how the dough is made at Utopia Bagels, which is consistently named among NYC's best bagel shops.
On Monday night, a 51-year-old man was sitting in his car on a Forest Hills street when two men tried to rob him and shot him, police said.
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The NY blood center recently announced that the region's blood supply dropped from its ideal weeklong supply to a 1-2 day level.
Here's a list of where you can get free PCR and rapid COVID tests in northeast Queen this week, including a site in a Bayside park.
Here's a list of where you can get free PCR and rapid COVID tests in northwest Queen this week, including a new site at LIC's Culture Lab.
The man lost his balance while jumping a turnstile at the Forest Hills-71st Ave station, and smashed his head into the floor, video shows.
A Forest Hills church says it is not offering COVID testing this week, despite a NY Health + Hospitals listing that the site is open.
Council Member Lynn Schulman told Patch she aims to bring more free testing options to Forest Hills, where there aren't any city-run sites.
Videos show plumes of smoke and fire coming from the car, which was ablaze on the shoulder of the highway on Wednesday afternoon.
Chief Eater critic Ryan Sutton compared the ham sandwich at Ghaya, famed pastry chef Ghaya Oliveira's cafe, to an "elegant monster truck."
About 30 percent of New York City correction officers were absent Wednesday, according to union president Benny Boscio.
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The Attorney General's office looks into all cases where an NYPD officer may have killed a person, including a recent shootout in Woodside.
Pete Wells described egusi, a West African stew made at Astoria's Nneji, as "rich and luxurious."
Eduard Florea of Middle Village threatened that he would go armed to Washington D.C., join Capitol rioters, and kill a Member of Congress.
Despite some concerns from locals about parking and neighborhood crowding, the Council voted to approve a 572-seat school in Bay Terrace.
Officials promised to boost testing amid NYC's latest COVID surge, and some pop-up sites are coming to northwest Queens. See a map here.
