77-Year-Old Substitute Teacher Arrested for Allegedly Choking Student at College Point School: NYPD

Apr. 25, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

As Pro-Palestinian encampments emerged at over a dozen college campuses across the country following in the footsteps of Columbia University, local elected officials pushed out statements in response.

Apr. 24, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The fashion retailer Express announced Monday that 95 of its locations across the United States will soon shut down after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The location at 26th Avenue and Bell Boulevard in Bay Terrace is included among these locations.

Apr. 24, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

New York City has launched a housing lottery for 134 units in the 17-story mixed-use building The Peninsula A1, also known as Edgemere Commons Apartments, at 51-23 Beach Channel Dr. in Far Rockaway.

Apr. 24, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children’s 18th annual Big Hearts Walk is returning to Crocheron Park in Bayside on Sunday, May 5. 

Apr. 23, 2024 By QNS News Team

New York City Football Club (NYCFC) celebrated the recent approval of a new 25,000-seater stadium in Willets Point with a 2-0 victory over DC United at Citi Field on Saturday, Apr. 20. 

Apr. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

The Summer 2024 Queensboro Dance Festival, slated to run from June 8 through Sept. 15, will include more than 30 scheduled performances at various venues throughout the borough.

A bald-headed burglar who allegedly posed as a priest to gain entry to the rectory at American Martyrs Roman Catholic Church in Oakland Gardens—before robbing a real reverend of $900—was arrested in California earlier this month.

Malin Rostas, 45, of New York, was arrested by deputies from the Moreno Valley Sheriff’s Station, which is part of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, on an outstanding burglary warrant out of Pennsylvania. Rostas, believed to be a serial thief, was wanted by jurisdictions across the nation.

Apr. 22, 2024 By Ethan Marshall

While New York City as a whole has experienced a decline in the number of housing units on the market over the past year, the borough of Queens has bucked the trend.

Apr. 19, 2024 By Athena Dawson

Stacy Bliagos, executive director of HANAC, an Astoria-based Hellenic non-profit organization, spoke exclusively to QNS about the organization’s dedication to helping Queens’ most vulnerable residents. 

Apr. 18, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan

The Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm are working to preserve a care model, rooted in love, for a growing older adult population.