Officers of the 109th Precinct have warned residents to be wary with their cell phones – even when walking. According to Precinct Executive Officer Captain Christopher Manson, cell phone snatchings are currently among the most common forms of theft. “These iPhones are the biggest thing electronically citywide,” he said. “Cell phones as a whole, but [...]
A local developer has planted the seeds to land a store that is the “apple” of shoppers’ eyes. The Heskel Group, located in Forest Hills, has been trying for many years to lure an Apple store into the Queens area. “I’ve been working on it for a long time,” said Heskel Elias, founder of the [...]
End of an era in North Korea: Kim Jong Il dies after nearly two decades in power North Korea’s Communist leader Kim Jong Il, whose nearly two-decade reign of power was marked by nuclear threats against his neighbors and a stifling of freedoms for his own people, has died. North Korean television announced Sunday night that [...]
Police arrested 141 individuals – 21 in Queens – purchasing what they believed was stolen electronics during an undercover operation throughout the city. Undercover officers targeted locations that were suspected of receiving stolen merchandise in the past and offered Apple iPhone 4s and iPad 2s that the merchants believed to be stolen for vast discounts, [...]
111th Precinct Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, Auburndale, Hollis Hills and Fresh Meadows Last Precinct Council meeting of 2011 The 111th Precinct held its last Council Meeting of the year, updating residents on crime stats and honoring December’s “Cop of the Month.” “This year we’re down nine percent in crime. We’re down in every category, except [...]
Home sweet home for Ilan Grael Ilan Grapel, the Queens law student freed after five months in an Egyptian prison, made an emotional return to US soil Saturday. Grapel , a law student at Emory University, was in Egypt to volunteer with a legal- aid group. In June, he arrested and accused of spying for [...]
Queens’ Morning Roundup – 10/10/2011 What did you learn in school today? Over 20 Department of Education employees have been disciplined over the course of the past 2 years due to inappropriate conduct. Angel Vazquez, a teacher at P.S. 117 in Queens was fired after complaints that he waved a box cutter at students, [...]
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who helped revolutionize the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being,” the company said in a brief statement. “Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve [...]
