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.
The teenager was sitting on a 7 train in the middle of the day when a man approached her and stole her iPhone out of her hands, police said.
The doorman tried to kick out a man rolling a blunt in the basement, one report says. The man punched him in the face, causing a fracture.
Con Ed asked central Queens residents to "limit unnecessary use of air conditioning" due to repairs. It is 90 degrees as of 10:30 a.m.
The pop-up carnival will include 5 days of amusement park-style rides, games, and festival fare, all under the RFK bridge in Astoria Park.
The city closed 322 construction sites citywide following the death of 7 construction workers this year, including 1 in Long Island City.
The teen was called homophobic slurs and bullied for years. Officials said that most of these instances weren't bias-based harassment.
Locals cited parking and neighborhood crowding as reasons they rejected the proposal to build a school at a vacant lot in Bay Terrace.
The city has opened hundreds of cooling centers, but there aren't any in several of southeast Queens' most high-risk neighborhoods.
The percent of Democratic voters who cast ballots in Bayside dropped, while voter turnout increased in progressive pockets of the borough.
During this year's primary election, the percentage of voters who went to the polls in Queens' COVID-stricken neighborhoods dropped.
The percentage of voters who went to the polls in Queens' COVID-stricken neighborhoods dropped. Those races also had incumbent candidates.
Early in the evening of Monday May 24 a person broke into a car parked on 41st Avenue in Long Island City. See the video here.
Here's what you need to know if you're taking the subway this weekend in the neighborhood.
Here's what you need to know if you're taking the subway this weekend in the neighborhood.
Here's what you need to know if you're taking the subway this weekend in the neighborhood.
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A grand jury in Queens indicted a man on murder charges after he allegedly nearly stabbed another man to death after a parking spot dispute.
For the second time this year, helicopters will spray an insecticide over Alley Pond Park, Kissena Park and the abandoned Flushing airport.
