Over the past month, drivers have been digging deeper into their pockets as gas prices have gone up about 20 cents per gallon. “Owning a vehicle today is out of the question. At this rate, our children will be paying $10 or more a gallon,” said teacher Elizabeth Gutierrez, 24, as she gassed up her [...]
A Queens man wanted for an August rape was apprehended after he was arrested for subway fare evasion, said police. Tuesday afternoon an officer observed Kenny Campbell, a 30-year-old Jamaica resident, jumping the turnstile at the Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer subway station, and immediately placed him under arrest. Afterwards, authorities discovered that he was suspected in a rape [...]
Burger buffs in the borough, here’s a whopper of good news: Three Burger King joints in Queens are now delivering. The global fast food chain announced it would debut its home delivery services in New York City last November. Now locations in Fresh Meadows, Ozone Park and Jamaica — and four in Brooklyn — are [...]
If you want to do more than just dinner on Valentine’s Day here are some romantic events happening in Queens on February 14. Valentine’s Dinner Cruise, 7 p.m. Take the Skyline Princess for a four-hour, all-inclusive, romantic tour of NYC harbor with a three-course buffet dinner, premium open bar, free parking at the marina, and [...]
BY ANTHONY O’REILLY COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Michael Germano, director of Campus Ministry at Archbishop Molloy High School, brings students from the school to visit the Briarwood Shelter from Monday to Thursday to help disadvantaged children who reside there. The main way in which they help, Germano said, is by tutoring. “I make sure they’re coming and [...]
The NYPD has released a photo of the second suspect involved in a stabbing at a Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer subway station platform on Monday, February 4 that left three teens injured. Last week the police released a photo and video of another suspect involved in the same incident. Both are wanted for allegedly stabbing the victims, ages 17, 18 [...]
The Bangladeshi national said that he wanted to “destroy America.” Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, pleaded guilty Thursday to attempting to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank, resolving to commit mass murder last October, according to the FBI. Nafis first came to the United States last January on a student visa, but his [...]
Two suspects are wanted in a string of Queens hotel robberies, said police. In each incident the suspects displayed a firearm, demanded money, then fled with the cash in a silver Audi. The first robbery occurred on December 29, at approximately 1:00 p.m. at a Quality Inn located on 138-68 94th Avenue in Jamaica. In addition [...]
An overwhelming fear of the unknown is keeping Hillcrest residents from embracing a proposed housing unit set to lodge mental and chronic health patients in their community. “There are too many people, too many variables and too many things that can go wrong,” said Ed Leahy of the Hillcrest Estate Civic Association. A coalition of [...]
Three men were stabbed Monday afternoon on the platform of a Jamaica subway station after getting into an argument with another group of men, said police. The altercation happened at the “J” train stop, located at Archer Avenue and Parsons Boulevard. According to police, two of the victims were stabbed in the stomach and the third [...]
