Maya Kaufman covers Astoria, Long Island City, Forest Hills and Bayside for Patch. She has written for The New York Times, Bloomberg News, the Miami Herald and CBSNews.com.
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A Connecticut public school teacher says plainclothes NYPD officers randomly beat him up and arrested him as he was leaving a Mets game.
The Bowne Playground overhaul includes new play equipment and swings, basketball and handball courts and a spray shower.
Local Catholic church leaders have found two credible allegations that a retired Bayside priest sexually abused minors back in the 1970s.
Police are looking for the hit-and-run driver who struck a man in Jamaica Wednesday evening, leaving him in critical condition.
Three teen girls were hurt, one critically, after their car crashed into a pole on a Middle Village street known for speeding, reports say.
Hillcrest High School's principal is leaving at the end of August, the New York Post reports. The DOE found he'd inflated graduation rates.
A police officer was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Laurelton home Wednesday evening, police and reports said.
A duo broke into the Malba Yacht Club, climbed into a docked ferry and stole 10 bottles of liquor, according to police.
Pedestrians have been hit more than two dozen times at Bayside's most dangerous intersections in the last three years, according to police.
Police are looking for two men who stole a golf cart from the Forest Hills Stadium last week.
The Queens Night Market's Rockefeller Center outpost will stick around for several more weeks.
The city has shut down an illegal hotel on Alderton Street, just a few months after a shell company bought the building.
The Police Benevolent Association's Pat Lynch accused City Council Member Donovan Richards of "bashing cops" and "failing" constituents.
A police officer was injured after he fell while chasing two suspected car thieves through Downtown Flushing on Monday, the NYPD said.
Two Foodtown workers in Elmhurst who claim they were fired for reporting sexual harassment by a supervisor have settled for $285,000.
Queens Borough Hall is hosting a back-to-school donation drive to help homeless kids get ready for the new school year.
The Queens County Farm Museum is transforming the iconic World's Fair monument in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park into a corn maze.
New alternate side parking regulations are coming to Astoria, after a years-long campaign by the Old Astoria Neighborhood Association.
A new batch of luxury developments in Forest Hills is driving up the neighborhood's average rent and sales price, real estate data shows.
The fitness chain is opening a gym by the Queens Plaza subway station in Long Island City, according to the Commercial Observer.
