The city’s Department of Buildings (DOB) is falling down on the job. “The Buildings Department is just dysfunctional and incapable of improving itself,” said Comptroller John Liu. “Its inability to perform basic tasks … bode poorly not just for the department, but for residents and neighborhoods too.” A recent audit by the comptroller’s office found [...]
For the third time in less than a week, a straphanger was struck by a train at a Queens subway station after jumping onto the tracks. According to police, around 5:30 a.m. Monday, an unidentified 34-year-old man was hit by a train at a Woodside subway station located at Northern Boulevard and Broadway. He was [...]
BY MATT SURRUSCO Lou Rispoli would have turned 63 on February 1. His widowed husband, Danyal Lawson, grieved that day for his slain spouse, but he wasn’t alone. Lawson, of Woodside, found comfort in a bittersweet dinner with friends and by visiting the couple’s favorite flower shop, Nunziato’s Florist, where he picked out two orchid [...]
A three-year-old died tragically over the weekend after she fell out of the window of her Woodside apartment, said police. After the girl, Rusroshi Barua, fell from the 53-01 32nd Avenue building Sunday afternoon, she was taken to Elmhurst Hospital and was pronounced dead that evening. According to ABC New York, Barua got locked inside her [...]
Police are looking for a man who burglarized several Queens businesses by breaking in through the stores’ rooftops. The first incident took place at 3 a.m. on December 24, at a Rite Aid located at 47-07 Broadway in Astoria. He cut a hole through the roof of the drugstore, but did not enter the business. [...]
TODAY’S FORECAST Thursday: Overcast in the morning, then partly cloudy. High of 25 with a windchill as low as 3. Windy. Winds from the NNW at 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Thursday night: Clear. Low of 12F with a windchill as low as 0. Breezy. Winds from the NW at 10 to 20 mph [...]
A man sleeping on the tracks of the “E”/”M”/”R” station in Woodside lost his legs to a subway train Sunday. According to CBS New York, around 4:40 a.m., a 26-year-old man from Elizabeth, New Jersey, was laying on the tracks in an allegedly drunken state, when a northbound “E” train severed his legs. He was [...]
The NYPD is looking for two men wanted in a string of commercial gunpoint robberies around Queens. During each incident, the suspects, wearing masks and displaying firearms, entered the location and removed cash and property, said police. No one was injured during any of the robberies. The first incident occurred on November 29 at a [...]
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Shawn Slevin founded the Swim Strong Foundation in 2009. Slevin and her team of about 55 volunteers provide water safety and swim programs to nearly 2,000 people throughout Queens and parts of Brooklyn. Being a nonprofit, Slevin also works on connecting with local businesses to acquire funding, and she also looks to partner with different health care [...]
R&B singer Trey Songz was arrested for throwing a wad of bills at a woman in a Woodside strip club this summer, according to the Daily News. At the time of the August 22 incident, the 28-year-old was having an album release party at Club Perfection on 30th Avenue. Donna McIntosh-Inoe, a 36-year-old Staten Island [...]
