The body of a 51-year-old man was found inside a vehicle in Rockaway Park Friday afternoon, said police. Around 3 p.m. officers discovered the man unconscious and unresponsive lying across the front seats of a Ford Mustang at 135 Beach 120th Street. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death and the investigation is [...]
Authorities have arrested two men for the shooting death of a Far Rockaway teen this weekend. Dashawn Deverow, 21, of Rockaway Park and Jamane Yarbroughm, 16, of Arverne, have been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Xavier Granville, said police. Deverow was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. On Saturday December 29, at [...]
For Angilda Delacruz, 21, without her aunt and godmother Magnolia Pena, the upcoming holidays are the toughest part of the year. “When we were little, we would always go to her house, and she would always have these baked cakes ready and chocolate lollipops in her fridge. We would always get in trouble for stealing [...]
Click here to view our Flight 587 memorial gallery. Ten years may have passed since the tragic crash of Flight 587, but hundreds of loved ones who gathered to mourn at the memorial site remember as if it was yesterday. “After 10 years, we still have open wounds from what happened,” said Rafael Almonte, who [...]
The final dismissal bell may soon ring for six underperforming charter schools in the city — including one school in Queens. According to officials, Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School in Rockaway Park joins 46 other struggling schools on the list for potential closures released by the Department of Education (DOE) on November 2. Of the [...]
Goodbye bulky social studies textbook. Hello slim, sleek iPad2. Students at Our Lady’s Catholic Academy in South Ozone Park are closing their “old-fashioned” textbooks and notebooks as they enter the touch-screen world of Apple for assignments, note taking, tutorials and more. “I’m so emotional,” said 11-year-old Katherine Duarte of South Ozone Park. “I think I’m [...]
