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A coalition led by grassroots group Queens Neighborhoods United hopes to convince a judge to halt Target's construction on 82nd Street.
Queens-based artists can now apply for $5,000 grants to create a piece for display in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Officials on Tuesday celebrated the grand opening of a 14-story tower in Jamaica that 89 families now call home.
Irate Queens residents turned a public hearing on a proposed homeless shelter Monday into a shouting match.
One could call this a serious misstep.
Two people suffered minor injuries after a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon in a home on Pettit Avenue in Elmhurst, the FDNY said.
A Long Island man has been charged with fatally stabbing his mother-in-law in her Jamaica home and hiding her body in the basement.
The taxi driver who hit and killed a woman in Rego Park in February won't face criminal charges for the crash, the family's lawyers say.
A car crash shut down traffic in the Queens-Midtown Tunnel for roughly an hour Tuesday morning, city officials said.
The MTA halted 7 train service for hours Tuesday after someone was fatally struck by a train in the tunnel between Queens and Manhattan.
Seniors living in northeast Queens will get free rides to and from the doctor's office starting Oct. 10.
The Hunters Point Library will relocate some of its books after visitors pointed out they were shelved on levels only accessible by stairs.
The Forest Hills Jewish Center was due to be demolished this year, but the plans have been put on hold, reports say.
José Peralta, the first Dominican-American elected to the New York State Senate, died suddenly in November 2018 from cancer complications.
The man got into the Queens home by climbing through a window, according to police.
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A former campaign manager for State Sen. Joseph Addabbo is recruiting candidates to primary his former boss.
The man allegedly bragged he couldn't be charged in the deaths due to so-called Good Samaritan laws.
Police are looking for two boys who broke into a shed at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church, took gas cans and started a fire.
FDNY divers are combing through the waters off Rockaway Beach after receiving a report that two swimmers had gone missing.
