May. 24, 2024 By Iryna Shkurhan Five years after being elected to office, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams took the stage in Jamaica to deliver his annual ‘State of the People’ address on Wednesday. His afternoon speech at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center kicked off with song and dance performances followed by a medley of…
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May. 22, 2024 By Athena Dawson NewYork-Presbyterian and March of Dimes have partnered to bring a mobile OBGYN office to the tri-state area. The Mom and Baby Mobile Health Center brings pregnancy, post-birth and women’s health care directly to mothers in need of care. The mobile bus serves unhoused and undocumented women and collaborates with…
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Feb. 22, 2024 By Bill Parry
MTA Bridges and Tunnels will be implementing a full closure of the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge that connects the western end of the Rockaway peninsula to Brooklyn from 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23 through 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24.
Feb. 9, 2024 By Bill Parry
An MS-13 gang member from Jamaica was sentenced Thursday in Brooklyn federal court to 35 years in prison for the 2017 fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old boy in Alley Pond Park in Bayside.
Dec. 26, 2023 By Yadira Navarro, Director of Community and Stakeholder Relations for New York Blood Center The holiday season is undoubtedly one of the most special times of the year in New York City. People from all over the world come to see the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, walk along the window displays…
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Nov. 6, 2023 By Bill Parry A Brooklyn man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Springfield Gardens early Sunday morning after he wiped out on his motorcycle on the Belt Parkway, according to the NYPD. Police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village responded to a 911 call of a vehicle collision on the Belt Parkway in the vicinity of Springfield Boulevard at around 1:18 a.m. on Nov. 5. Upon their arrival, officers discovered Mohammed Hoque, 23, of Grant Avenue in Cypress Hills, unconscious on the roadway with trauma to his head and body. EMS responded to…
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Oct. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry
Jul. 31, 2023 By Bill Parry An off-duty Brooklyn cop was arrested early Monday morning and booked for assault at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows, according to the NYPD. Police Officer Harry Espinal, 34, who works out of the 88th Precinct in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, was arrested following a brawl with…
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May. 12, 2023 By Bill Parry
A Brooklyn man was arrested Thursday and booked at the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows for allegedly throwing a stone at a man who was entering a Kew Gardens Hills synagogue in broad daylight on Saturday, May 6.
Apr. 19, 2023 By Bill Parry A Russian émigré from Brooklyn was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison for the attempted murder of her Forest Hills beautician look-alike with a sedative-laced cheesecake in 2016, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office. Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, of Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, was convicted in Queens…
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