While the current Giants team recently received their Super Bowl rings, any fan of the team can sport some Big Blue championship jewelry — for the right price. Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor’s 1991 Super Bowl ring is up for auction on scpauctions.com. Bidding has already reached more than $98,000 for the ring that features [...]
A large-scale bust landed 45 people – alleged members of two drug organizations operating in southeast Queens – in jail on drug, weapons and other charges. The two organizations were allegedly being run by a set of the Bloods street gang known as the “South Side Bloods” and by James “Wall” Corley, an original member [...]
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying and locating a Queens groping suspect. The incident occurred on Sunday, shortly after midnight within the confines of the 109th Precinct, according to authorities. The suspect followed the 27-year-old woman into her building and placed his hand between her legs, police said. Police described the suspect as [...]
A coalition of Willets Point business owners are urging the city to repair severely deteriorated streets in their “forgotten land” before emergency response times are more hindered and further revenue is lost. “There is no reason to deny our neighborhood essential services. We are New York City taxpayers, and we will not tolerate having to [...]
Before their days of politicking around Queens, Councilmember Eric Ulrich and Senator Joseph Addabbo both took classes and played in the schoolyard at Nativity Blessed Virgin Mary School, though they weren’t in the same class. Addabbo attended first through eighth grade at Nativity, now known as Divine Mercy Catholic Academy. He recalled the “strict, tough [...]
Alleged Cocaine Kingpin Nabbed In Queens Drug Ring Bust A 15-month investigation by the New York City Police Department and the Queens district attorney’s office has led to the arrest of 45 people, including a man who is allegedly one of the city’s biggest cocaine dealers. The investigation centered on two gangs in southeast [...]
Curtis Johnson is definitely one basketball player fans can — and have to — look up to. Johnson — also known as “Tiny” — and the rest of the Magic Masters will be at York College on June 4 and 6 performing and playing their brand of entertainment basketball. Tip-off for the games will be [...]
The murdered Queens man whose ID was used by a Newark Airport security worker for 20 years sold it to a cabby three weeks before he was gunned down, the NYPD said yesterday. Peter “Bimbo” Olumuyia Oyewole, 55, of Elizabeth, NJ, used the dead man’s ID to rise up the ranks in the airport’s security [...]
Major leaguer Mike Baxter, who started his career in the Bayside Little League, will join an estimated 600 young players on the diamond at the home of the Mets on June 3. “It’s a lot of fun for the kids,” league President Bob Reid said, adding it’s easy to tell the kids enjoy the trip [...]
BY CAV. JOSEPH MATTONE, K.M., K.H.S. EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS WAS A LETTER MATTONE WROTE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES IN RESPONSE TO AN ARTICLE. As the president of the Figli di San Gennaro, Inc., the non-profit organization which has operated the annual San Gennaro Feast in Little Italy since 1996, I am disappointed and shocked [...]
