NYPD: Overall crime is down, but rapes and hate crimes are on the rise
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Shooting incidents are also up.
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Surf festival brings a celebration of creativity and community to Rockaway
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Surf icon and long time advocate of fun Joel Tudor brought The Vans Duct Tape Invitational to Rockaway Beach for a weekend of art, innovation and logs.
Lieutenant governor honors Richmond Hill business that employs the visually impaired
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Nearly 70 percent of working age individuals with severe vision impairments lack full time employment, according to the National Federation of the Blind.
Read MoreOpinion: Create more ‘specialized’ high schools to level the playing field
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“One high stakes test should not determine if a child goes to an elite high school or a mediocre one in his or her neighborhood.”
Read MoreVandal causes $10,000 of damage in Hollis church
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On Sept. 8, the same person was caught on video tearing down signs and damaging potted plants in the church’s parking lot.
Read MoreNYPD officials ‘dragging their feet’ on release of body camera footage
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Officials from the CCRB told attendees at a forum in Long Island City on Sept. 12 that there were “issues obtaining reliable and timely information” regarding police footage.
Read MoreCity honors Jamaica detective killed in the line of duty
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“To have the street named after him right next to a park named after him is like the biggest honor there can be.”
Read MoreCabán files campaign committee for undisclosed office
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Political insiders have speculated about Cabán running for office at the city, state and federal level.
Read MoreThird of NYC workers freelance, according to new study
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The workforce faces a much different set of challenges than that of workers who have a singular employer.
Read MoreOpinion: The importance of New York’s Green Light Law
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“Opponents of the Green Light law have used misinformation and outright lies to claim that the law will make our roads less safe.”
Read MoreFive Queens residents arrested after allegedly selling millions of opioids
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Over the course of a year, the defendants allegedly conducted tens of thousands of transactions involving the pills.
Read MorePlaintiffs file 17 sex abuse complaints in Queens under state’s Child Victim’s Act
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In addition to the 17 cases filed in Queens, there were 251 complaints in New York City’s other four Supreme Civil Courts.
Read MoreSt. Albans residents get ‘insufficient’ response from MTA after months of bus advocacy
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“There are elderly people along the Q42 who have no other means of transportation in and out of their respective neighborhoods without this service.”
Read MoreQueens’ 15 councilmembers weigh in on the city’s jails plan
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Three Queens councilmembers flat-out say they will vote against the plan.
Read MoreCUNY immigration initiative hosts massive citizenship application event
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CUNY Citizenship Now! began in 1997, and has grown into the largest university-based legal assistance program in the country.
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