Ronald “Ronnie G” Giallanzo, a Howard Beach loanshark and Bonnano family captain, will have to pay a $1.25 million penalty and sell his Howard Beach mansion as part of a sentence handed down in Brooklyn’s federal court Wednesday.
Read MoreIn recent weeks, racists have scrawled swastikas on boulders in College Point and a kiosk in Flushing. Two weeks ago, a white supremacist group unfurled a banner in Washington Heights and posted stickers throughout the city. Meanwhile, anti-semitism routinely seeps into or masquerades as debate about Israeli policy.
Next month, a mobile legal center will pull up to Rockaway Beach Boulevard and provide free legal assistance to peninsula residents. It is one of the latest Queens stops for the innovative van.
The vacant Queens House of Detention is one step closer to re-opening as a key component of the city’s plan to shutter Rikers Island.
Read MoreActress Sean Young was accused of stealing two laptops from an Astoria movie production company that recently fired her, but by Wednesday, the devices appeared at her attorney’s office in Manhattan.
Read MoreFederal court judge Brian Cogan ruled against a motion by the defense of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to move his trial out of Brooklyn and into Manhattan during a hearing Tuesday morning at the Eastern District of NY courthouse.
Read MoreMore than 100 organizations rallied in New York City Monday to call on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign a law creating a prosecutorial misconduct commission.
Actress Sean Young was under investigation Monday in Queens after the alleged theft of two laptops belonging to a production company that fired her from a new film she was directing.
Read MoreFive years after the brutal hazing death of a Baruch College freshman from Flushing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an anti-hazing bill into law that advocates say will protect students from dangerous initiation rituals as they return to school, sports teams and Greek societies.
Read MoreThe court officers who staff Queens courts are an elite group, selected from among thousands of applicants after demonstrating the physical ability, mental aptitude and emotional temperament to succeed in the role.
Read MorePolice say a 15-year-old boy fired a gun into a crowd in Far Rockaway and was shot by officers when he did not drop his weapon.
Read MoreOver a span of a few decades, Hon. Joseph A. Zayas ascended from the park benches outside his childhood public housing complex to the bench inside Queens’ highest criminal court.
Read MoreA year-long investigation concluded Wednesday with the arrest of 22 people inside the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, including 3 for low-level marijuana possession.
Read MoreAs an attorney for the Goddard Riverside SRO Law Project, many of Catalina Cruz’s first clients came from the same communities as the workers who clean the office buildings that house high-powered law firms. Or who work at the coffee shops and delis at street level.
A Woodside man has been hit with an aggravated cruelty to animals charge after allegedly killing his girlfriend’s Shih Tzu last month.
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