Starting Friday, Sept. 28, the Far Rockaway Library at 1637 Central Ave. will close for three years to make way for a brand new, two-story library twice as big as the current facility.
Read MoreA new law that took effect at the beginning of the school year mandates that all public schools must stock pads and tampons and provide them free of charge to students in grades six through 12 starting.
Read MoreParaguay’s former soccer federation faces sentencing in Brooklyn federal court today for his role in sprawling FIFA bribery scandal.
Read MoreThe constant roar of passing planes started in 2012 when a flight path usually used a handful of times a year became a permanent route.
Read MoreA Florida man who knocked on a car window because he thought it was his Uber ride has died after the driver got out and punched him in Long Island City.
Read MoreA stunning bail system failure helped initiate a slate of jail reform bills signed into law Tuesday — though they came a few years too late for one Rikers detainee.
Read MoreOnly weeks before a nurse was slain and another woman sexually assaulted on opposite sides of the country, a New York judge released the suspect without bail in a separate strangulation case — not knowing he had a violent criminal history involving women.
Read MoreHe swindled a centenarian out of house and home. Now he’s facing 15 years in the big house.
Ricardo Bentham, 58, was hit with a slew of charges for allegedly filing a fake deed and stealing a home from his 101-year-old neighbor, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Thursday.
Read MoreMurder dropped boroughwide last month, contributing to a citywide decrease in crime that resulted in the safest July on record and earned plaudits from top city officials. But in Queens, the number of shooting incidents, shooting victims and rapes all increased in Queens over the past 28 days.
Read MoreSlipping through the closing emergency door, squeezing two people into one section of a revolving subway entrance, hopping over the turnstile — every straphanger has seen it. So have the cops.
In an ode to the Holy Father and his own father, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to ban the death penalty in New York State once and for all.
A Far Rockaway thief has a long time to reflect on the string of home invasions that led to his arrest — 34 years to be exact.
A suspected burglar who was trying to break into a St. Albans home early Monday was killed by one of the homeowners, police said. The story was first reported by NBC4.
On Monday, City & State unveiled its “Queens Power 50,” an annual rundown of the 50 most influential people — excluding lawmakers — in Queens.
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