Authorities are looking for several suspects wanted in a Richmond Hill arson. The suspects, who were caught on video during the May 24 incident, threw two Molotov Cocktails into the yard of a home around 12 a.m. then fled, said police. There were no reported injuries. Anyone with information in regards to this incident is [...]
A gas explosion that destroyed a Howard Beach house last week was not caused by fixes from the city’s post-Sandy repair service, an FDNY spokesperson said. The May 29 blast sent resident Theresa Pepitone to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center with severe burns. Witnesses said the burns took skin off of her face and scalp. [...]
Jamaica Bay visitors are about to get a little bike for their bucks. The Parks Department announced California-based Wheel Fun Rentals has received the license agreement for much-discussed bike and kayak stands throughout Jamaica Bay. A site in Queens opened at Rockaway’s Jacob Riis Park over Memorial Day Weekend, according to the Parks Department, with [...]
Barbara Sheehan, who was acquitted of charges for fatally shooting her husband in 2008, has lost an appeal to have another charge revoked. She was sentenced in 2011 to five years in prison for criminal possession of a weapon and appealed the case before the latest ruling last week. Sheehan will also be under supervision [...]
Order up! The Cross Bay Diner reopened on Friday, May 24 after being closed nearly seven months due to Sandy damage. The diner’s reopening marks another step forward for the community as fewer businesses remain shuttered due to the storm. Michael Siderakis, the owner of Cross Bay Diner, State Senator Joseph Addabbo, Councilmember Eric Ulrich [...]
Far Rockaway is fighting its reputation of violence through a program that brings youth together and puts them under one roof. The Stack Bundles basketball tournament kicked of its second year earlier this month and will continue through the summer. Twelve teams of 10 players each are traveling the peninsula and breaking territorial barriers. All [...]
Barbara Sheehan, the woman acquitted of fatally shooting her husband inside their Howard Beach home, has lost her appeal of a criminal weapons conviction related to the same case, District Attorney Richard Brown announced Wednesday. In its decision, the court upheld her sentence of five years in prison followed by two-and-a-half years probation for the gun [...]
A two-alarm fire in Howard Beach today sent one woman to the hospital and practically split a home in half. More than twenty fire trucks responded to the blaze, on the corner of 163rd Avenue and 84th Street, which broke out just before 2 p.m. Chief Robert Maynes said a gas explosion ignited the fire and [...]
BY LOGAN MILLER The sun is out and the shore is open, but not everything is back to normal at Rockaway Beach. There is still work to be done to restore the beach to the way things were before Sandy devastated the Rockaway community in November. An uprooted boardwalk, damaged homes and buildings as well [...]
They are $70,000 closer to a cure. On Saturday, May 18, the Fifth Annual South Queens Juvenile Diabetes Walk-A-Thon to Cure Diabetes, organized by the International Society of Saints Cosma and Damiano, raised $70,000. All of the funds will go directly to juvenile diabetes research. The Howard Beach Kiwanis Club, one of many organizations involved, [...]
