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  1. October 14, 2026 Forest Hills "Spider-Man Way" now marks Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue, steps from Peter Parker's comic-book address at 20 Ingram Street.
  2. October 14, 2026 Long Island City Volunteers and NYC Parks planted 30 trees along Center Boulevard near Hunter's Point South Park, a district ranked 57th of 59 for green space per capita.
  3. October 13, 2026 Forest Hills Ingram Street at Ascan Avenue is now co-named Spider-Man Way, steps from Peter Parker's fictional 20 Ingram St..
  4. October 13, 2026 Forest Park Cars returned to Freedom Drive on Oct. 7, weeks before the Parks schedule allowed, under a rule Mamdani kept from Eric Adams.
  5. October 13, 2026 Flushing A pickup driver who tested positive for cocaine and THC is charged with manslaughter for killing a 1-year-old in a stroller at Murray Street and 32nd Avenue.
  6. October 12, 2026 Flushing A 56-year-old man was stabbed once in the leg during an argument aboard a Q44-SBS near Main Street and 39th Avenue Sunday morning; a person of interest is in custody.
  7. October 12, 2026 Flushing A 10-story, 296-apartment building with 75 affordable units is proposed at 32-02 Linden Place, and needs a rezoning from manufacturing before it can rise.
  8. October 12, 2026 Woodside A Housing Connect lottery at 42-78 65 Place offers eight apartments starting at $869 a month, applications due Nov. 2.
  9. October 11, 2026 Jamaica The 14-story, 173-unit affordable Hillside North Building at 161-09 Hillside Ave. won a $1.2 million NYSERDA award and is slated for June 2029.
  10. October 11, 2026 Arverne A four-story, 25-unit building is planned at 72-50 Burchell Ave., near the Beach 67th Street A.
  11. October 10, 2026 Rego Park Lost Battalion Hall reopened after a $25.9 million rebuild, with a year's membership at $150 and members' kids 24 and under free.
  12. October 10, 2026 Jackson Heights Residents reported six ICE agents and three arrests in the church-owned parking lot beside P.S. 280 on Oct. 3; City Hall is looking into it.
  13. October 10, 2026 Woodside Rep. Grace Meng, Council Member Julie Won and Assembly Member Steven Raga want DOT to put a pedestrian signal at 62nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue, where 19-year-old Nishath Jannath was killed in March.
  14. October 10, 2026 New York Blood Center got $300,000 for a mobile unit after Queens donations fell more than 26 percent since 2015.
  15. October 9, 2026 Woodside Renderings are out for a 14-story, 148-unit rental at 64-11 Queens Blvd. by the 7 train, with a pickleball court and an August 2027 finish.
  16. October 9, 2026 RentCafe ranked the borough the 22nd most competitive rental market in the country, with 11 renters chasing each vacancy.
  17. October 8, 2026 Jackson Heights The AG charged pharmacy owner Miguel Baron in an alleged $31 million scheme buying back HIV drugs from Medicaid patients and refilling them.
  18. October 8, 2026 Rockaways FDNY officials told the Council that ambulance response times on the peninsula run below the citywide average, and its only hospital is not a trauma center.
  19. October 7, 2026 Woodhaven Jyrell Thomas, 25, was charged with murder in the rush-hour stabbing of Mesias Lojano, a Corona father of four, on a J train near Woodhaven Boulevard; riders chased him two blocks.
  20. October 7, 2026 Long Island City Council Members Julie Won and Phil Wong confronted DSS Commissioner Erin Dalton over roof leaks and food at the Borden Avenue Veterans Residence; the city says roof repairs finish this week.
  21. October 6, 2026 Glen Oaks Two North Shore Towers residents have Legionnaires' disease; the Health Department is checking the building's plumbing and told older residents to skip showers for now.
  22. October 6, 2026 Astoria Chip City closed all 22 remaining locations, telling staff it no longer had the funding to operate.
  23. October 5, 2026 A 23-year-old woman was ejected and killed when a car flipped on the Grand Central Parkway early Sunday; driver Anthony Dickson, 34, is charged with vehicular manslaughter.
  24. October 5, 2026 Jamaica Police are still hunting the stranger who stabbed Sulimon Ferrier, 29, a father of four, to death on Jamaica Avenue as his parents watched.
  25. October 4, 2026 Jamaica Sulimon Ferrier, 29, a father of four, was stabbed to death outside a bar at 173-12 Jamaica Avenue early Saturday; the 103rd Precinct had two murders this year before it.
  26. October 4, 2026 Chip City closes every store — *Chip City, the cookie chain born in Astoria in 2017, shut all 22 of its remaining locations Friday, days after its co-founder sued it for unpaid severance.* Top story
  27. October 3, 2026 Maspeth DOT expected to reopen the 120-year-old Grand Street Bridge to Williamsburg after emergency repairs; full replacement is not slated to start until 2029.
  28. October 3, 2026 Long Island City Council Members Julie Won and Phil Wong walked into the Borden Avenue veterans' shelter unannounced and found leaks and tarps over cots; DHS says roof repairs start Saturday.
  29. October 3, 2026 Rockaways NYJTL's free after-school tennis and tutoring program added four Rockaway schools, including P.S./M.S. 42 in Arverne.
  30. October 3, 2026 Sunnyside Gardens A 1927 four-unit townhouse at 47-16 39th Ave. listed at $2.498 million, which would top the neighborhood's $2.2 million record.
  31. October 3, 2026 Astoria Shadowbox, now running Kaufman Astoria Studios after Deutsche Bank's foreclosure filing, promoted 43-year veteran Pete Romano to run operations.
  32. October 3, 2026 Chip City closes all 24 shops overnight — *The Astoria-born cookie chain emailed staff Thursday evening that they would not be needed Friday morning, and shut every store in New York, New Jersey and Texas.* Top story
  33. October 2, 2026 Kew Gardens Hills Townsend Harris seniors can again earn college credit at Queens College, free, after a year-long lapse.
  34. October 2, 2026 Rikers The family of John Price, who waited three and a half hours for medical care before dying in custody, plans a $25 million suit.
  35. October 2, 2026 Twelve districts land on the affordable housing fast track — *From Bay Ridge to the Upper West Side, 12 community districts that built 883 of the city's 63,870 new affordable homes in five years lose the City Council's final vote on affordable rezonings starting Jan. 1.* Top story
  36. October 1, 2026 Woodhaven A 59-year-old man was fatally stabbed on a J train at Woodhaven Boulevard during the evening rush; a person of interest is in custody.
  37. September 30, 2026 Rockaway The storm carved a 14-foot sand cliff at Jacob Riis Park, and a Parks worker says much of the sand washed down to Breezy Point.
  38. September 30, 2026 Howard Beach Council Member Joann Ariola wants a flood infrastructure overhaul after a resident kayaked through Old Howard Beach streets under more than a foot of water.
  39. September 29, 2026 Corona A three-alarm fire on 34th Avenue hurt three firefighters, and inspectors found illegal single-room partitions next door.
  40. September 29, 2026 Astoria Developers filed to rezone 31-29 Vernon Blvd. for a 20-story, 402-unit complex with about 25% affordable.
  41. September 29, 2026 Flushing Francisco Lindor hit his 300th home run in the Mets' finale, becoming the first shortstop with 300 homers and 200 steals.
  42. September 28, 2026 Flushing The Mets finished 74-88 with a loss in Washington, though Francisco Lindor hit his 300th career homer on the way out.
  43. September 26, 2026 Astoria Developers filed to swap three industrial buildings at 31-29 Vernon Blvd., across from Socrates Sculpture Park, for a 20-story tower with 402 apartments, about 100 of them affordable.
  44. September 26, 2026 Long Island City Dog owners and Council Member Julie Won rallied at the Murray Playground dog run, closed since 2024 after testing found lead and arsenic in the soil, with remediation not yet started and reopening set for 2028.
  45. September 26, 2026 Fresh Meadows A $800,000 state grant closed the funding gap on $4.8 million worth of pickleball courts in Cunningham Park, clearing the way to construction because Parks will not start a project until it is fully funded.
  46. September 26, 2026 Jamaica Breaking Ground opened the 173-unit Sutphin Senior Residence at 97-10 Sutphin Blvd., with a health clinic on the ground floor.
  47. September 25, 2026 Forest Hills City Planning approved The Frances, 21 stories and 390 rentals at 100-12 Queens Blvd., 100 of them affordable; the Council votes within 50 days.
  48. September 24, 2026 St. Albans Tyrone Pope, 60, died of injuries from Aug. 28, when a van driver turning onto Merrick Boulevard hit him on his e-scooter.
  49. September 24, 2026 Malba Justin Aguilera, 20, got 4½ years for beating a couple on their lawn during a November 2025 street takeover.
  50. September 23, 2026 Edgemere Police released a photo of the scooter-riding gunman who killed 14-year-old Malakai Adams at the Ocean Bay Apartments; he is at least the 16th teen killed by gunfire in the city this year.
  51. September 23, 2026 Forest Park The city's largest public EV charging site opened near the bandshell with ten fast chargers at 30 to 35 cents per kilowatt.
  52. September 22, 2026 Elmhurst Attorney General Letitia James moved to intervene in the foreclosure sale of 47-11 90th Street so any buyer is told about the burial ground of freed Black New Yorkers beneath it, dating to 1818.
  53. September 22, 2026 Edgemere Police say the teen killed Monday, Malakai Adams, was heading to play basketball when he was shot, possibly over a scooter.
  54. September 22, 2026 Trump and Mamdani on Sunnyside Yard — *Mamdani and Trump agreed Monday to put their housing and operations staffs in direct talks over a platform above Sunnyside Yard, a plan Mamdani says could hold 12,000 homes.* Top story
  55. September 21, 2026 Middle Village A motorcycle takeover hit 69th Street and Eliot Avenue Friday, five months after a 100-car meetup there; the NYPD says it has responded to 259 such events this year and made 167 arrests.
  56. September 21, 2026 Howie Rose signs off — *Howie Rose, 72, called his last Mets game Sunday, a 7-2 loss to the Phillies at a rainy Citi Field.* Top story
  57. September 20, 2026 Maspeth Council Member Phil Wong says roughly 30 dirt bikes and motorcycles took over 69th Street and Eliot Avenue Friday night, and he is drafting a bill for a dedicated NYPD street-takeover unit.
  58. September 20, 2026 Elmhurst Attorney General Letitia James moved in court Friday to put any buyer of a parking lot built over an African burial ground on notice of its legal obligation to protect those buried there.
  59. September 20, 2026 Belmont Park reopens after a $555 million rebuild — *Belmont Park reopened Friday with a new five-story, roughly 300,000-square-foot grandstand, a public infield for the first time in the track's history, and general admission at $7 in advance.* Top story
  60. September 19, 2026 Elmhurst Attorney General Letitia James moved into the foreclosure of an acre that was a burial ground for up to 300 free Black New Yorkers.
  61. September 19, 2026 Flushing Flushing Commons Phase II broke ground with 156 apartments and a 63,000-square-foot YMCA.
  62. September 19, 2026 Jamaica Queens High School for the Sciences left its single floor at York College for a new $110.75 million building on 88th Avenue.
  63. September 19, 2026 Long Island City Luis Cadena, 29, of Bergen Beach, died after crashing his motorcycle on the Queensboro Bridge ramp from Thomson Avenue.
  64. September 19, 2026 Flushing Juan Soto's three-run homer carried the Mets past the Phillies, 6-3.
  65. September 19, 2026 Belmont Park reopens — *Belmont Park ran its first races in three years on Friday, in a new $455 million glass grandstand with 10,000 seats, down from 27,000.* Top story
  66. September 18, 2026 Kew Gardens Luis Alberto Lopez Castillo, 20, died after medical distress at Queens Criminal Court, at least the eighth death in city correction custody this year.
  67. September 18, 2026 Flushing Phase two of Flushing Commons broke ground, bringing 156 condos and a 63,000-square-foot YMCA.
  68. September 17, 2026 Woodside ICE detained about eight day laborers outside General Hart Playground on Sept. 1, and workers say the corner is now nearly empty.
  69. September 17, 2026 Woodside The MTA says Flushing-bound 7 service at 61st Street-Woodside returns by May 2027, two years late, after the girder job grew from $315 million to $343 million.
  70. September 16, 2026 East Elmhurst Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas and others want the Bulova Corporate Center at 75-20 Astoria Blvd. to bar ICE from staging in its lot; management says ICE has no office there.
  71. September 16, 2026 Ridgewood 141 firefighters and EMS workers fought a two-alarm warehouse fire at 48-01 Metropolitan Ave. complicated by natural gas tanks in parked trucks.
  72. September 16, 2026 Bayside Cord Meyer broke ground on 145 rentals atop the Bay Terrace Shopping Center's parking, due in early 2028.
  73. September 15, 2026 Middle Village Someone climbed out of a manhole at Juniper Boulevard South and 74th Street at 4 a.m., the latest in a string of sewer sightings.
  74. September 14, 2026 Far Rockaway A 17-year-old was shot in the chest and arm at Beach 43rd Street and Beach Channel Drive and is expected to survive.
  75. September 14, 2026 Lindenwood A six-story, 268-unit rental with 67 affordable apartments is planned for 135-27 Sapphire Street in the flood-prone Jewel Streets area known as The Hole, pending Council approval.
  76. September 14, 2026 Astoria Permits were filed for a 13-story, 44-unit building at 41-14 29th Street near the Queens Plaza station.
  77. September 14, 2026 Jamaica Estates Donald Trump's childhood home sold for $1.93 million to an undisclosed buyer.
  78. September 14, 2026 Astoria Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden defended a "9/11 Silent Disco for Unity & Support" promoted with an AI flier showing the wrong skyline.
  79. September 13, 2026 Jackson Heights About two dozen community leaders, including former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate, rallied outside alleged brothels on Roosevelt Avenue demanding enforcement; City Hall and the governor's office did not respond, and the NYPD had no arrest data
  80. September 13, 2026 Jamaica Estates Donald Trump's childhood Tudor sold for $1.93 million after developer Tommy Lin bought it for $835,000 and gutted a mold-and-feral-cat interior
  81. September 13, 2026 Flushing Meadows Kids and adults with disabilities played the U.S. Open courts at the Court of Dreams clinic hours before the women's final
  82. September 13, 2026 Rybakina takes Sabalenka's crown in Queens — *Elena Rybakina beat two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 at Arthur Ashe Stadium and takes the world No. 1 ranking Monday.* Top story
  83. September 12, 2026 Long Island City The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is hunting whoever attacked a couple, 21 and 22, near Gantry Plaza State Park while shouting anti-Asian slurs, then sprayed the man's head with an unknown substance; the 108th Precinct has logged seven hate crimes this year against five last year.
  84. September 12, 2026 Elmhurst Forte Preparatory High School cut the ribbon on a six-story, 59,000-square-foot building at 78-02 Queens Blvd. with a rooftop rec space and room for 560 students in grades nine through 12.
  85. September 11, 2026 Forest Hills City Planning approved The Frances, a 21-story, 390-unit tower at 100-12 Queens Boulevard atop the 67th Avenue M/R station, displacing Andre's Hungarian Bakery's strip; the Council votes within 50 days.
  86. September 11, 2026 Ozone Park Two pizzeria-owning brothers pleaded guilty to bribing former Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich.
  87. September 10, 2026 Jackson Heights Elected officials and Paseo Park advocates want a bike lane folded into Northern Boulevard's coming bus rapid transit redesign so delivery riders stop cutting through the car-free open street.
  88. September 10, 2026 Jamaica Christopher Brooks, 53, was beaten to death with a two-by-four in Rufus King Park Tuesday morning, two days after a 14-year-old bystander was shot near the park's southern end; no arrests in either case.
  89. September 9, 2026 Forest Hills A cooling tower at the 112th Precinct on Austin Street tested low-positive for Legionella and was drained and disinfected; the Health Department says nobody there has gotten sick.
  90. September 9, 2026 College Point Probationary Officer Kamir A. Loubarria collapsed during a workout at the police academy Monday and died at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens; the medical examiner will determine the cause.
  91. September 9, 2026 Jackson Heights Shoppers are still paying $15 a box for Kent mangoes as the season winds down, and Pata Market in Elmhurst has started adding extra coconut sauce because its mangoes have turned sour.
  92. September 8, 2026 Astoria Hartley Bernstein, a securities lawyer disbarred in 1999 and reinstated in 2007, has now sued DOT five times in three boroughs over bike lanes on 31st Street, Court Street and West 72nd Street, and has yet to stop one.
  93. September 8, 2026 Corona Two immigrant-led costureros, BordeAndo and Las Comadres Bordadoras, are stitching an archive of undocumented women's lives in northwestern Queens community centers, work the Queens Museum exhibited last year.
  94. September 7, 2026 Jamaica A 14-year-old was shot in the leg near 153rd Street and Jamaica Avenue, steps from the Rufus King Park playground; the gunman fled on foot and no arrests have been made.
  95. September 7, 2026 Whitestone A 19-year-old is in critical condition after a Camry botched a lane merge on the Cross Island Parkway near 154th Street and overturned, throwing two passengers onto the pavement.
  96. September 7, 2026 Flushing Meadows The US Open has already set a record with three post-2 a.m. finishes in its first six days, and Venus Williams started her first-round match at 12:13 a.m., the latest start in tournament history.
  97. September 6, 2026 Whitestone Six people were hurt, two critically, when a car flipped in a multi-vehicle crash on the northbound Cross Island Parkway near Francis Lewis Boulevard
  98. September 6, 2026 Jackson Heights ESU officers took a man into custody without incident after a barricade at 85-05 35th Ave. following a shots-fired call
  99. September 6, 2026 Flushing Meadows Coco Gauff beat Cristina Bucsa 6-3, 6-4 to reach the US Open fourth round on a day that knocked out Madison Keys and Amanda Anisimova
  100. September 5, 2026 Jamaica St. Stephen's Episcopal, founded in 1902 by Black workers who were not welcome to worship at Grace Church, will merge with a Hollis parish; its corner lot is listed at nearly $12 million and must be delivered vacant.
  101. September 5, 2026 Hunters Point A lithium-ion battery charging on an e-bike may have started the first-floor fire that drew 120 firefighters to the 37-story Hunters Point South Common on Friday afternoon.
  102. September 5, 2026 Flushing A woman in her 50s handed $130,000 in cash, most of it from selling her Flushing home, to three strangers sent by a "pig butchering" scammer she had been texting for eight months.
  103. September 4, 2026 East Elmhurst Video shows an ICE agent on 24th Avenue drawing a handgun and pointing it at a man filming him from the sidewalk.
  104. September 4, 2026 South Ozone Park A former NYPD officer was indicted on 14 counts over a March hit-and-run that cost a 22-year-old her spleen, then telling passengers to delete their photos.
  105. September 4, 2026 Elmhurst St. Mark AME is pushing to landmark the Corona Avenue burial ground where freed Black New Yorkers bought land in 1828; ten sets of remains have been found.
  106. September 4, 2026 Forest Hills Austin Street between 71st Avenue and 71st Road closes to cars Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sept. 20, the corridor's first open street.
  107. September 3, 2026 Woodside Assembly Member Steven Raga and Council Member Julie Won say ICE agents grabbed a man off a bench at General Hart Playground without showing a warrant, part of more than two dozen arrests in the area since July 27.
  108. September 3, 2026 Ozone Park A 59-year-old man was found dead behind his car on 87th Street with head trauma and a stab wound to the torso; the medical examiner has not yet ruled on the cause.
  109. September 3, 2026 Ridgewood Chipotle opened at 60-18 Metropolitan Avenue with a drive-thru pickup lane, running 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.
  110. September 2, 2026 Hollis The Hack family's home of 34 years on 183rd Street was ordered demolished after the Aug. 20 storm destroyed a foundation wall, five years after two neighbors drowned in a basement apartment across the street; the city has yet to buy a single home under its buyout program.
  111. September 2, 2026 Maspeth Janusz Mioduszewski, 48, was charged with reckless endangerment after police say he fired a rifle inside his 56th Road garage, shattering a neighbor's SUV window.
  112. September 1, 2026 Corona A gunman shot a 13-year-old boy in the arm and an 18-year-old in the ankle near 103rd Street and 39th Avenue Friday night; both are stable, and police have no description of the shooter.
  113. September 1, 2026 Elmhurst Forte Preparatory High School finished construction at 78-02 Queens Boulevard, 59,000 square feet with a regulation basketball court and a rooftop recreation deck, opening Sept. 8.
  114. September 1, 2026 Jamaica Hochul and running mate Adrienne Adams opened a Democratic field office at 95-26 Sutphin Blvd., with a Siena poll this month giving Hochul a 10-point lead over Bruce Blakeman.
  115. August 30, 2026 Whitestone, Forest Hills, Queens Village An $8.4 million program is converting concrete road medians into stormwater sponges expected to soak up five million gallons a year, keeping sewage out of the East River, Flushing Bay and Jamaica Bay.
  116. August 29, 2026 Whitestone, Forest Hills, Queens Village Hochul and Mamdani are spending $8.4 million to rip out concrete medians and replant them as stormwater sponges expected to soak up five million gallons a year.
  117. August 29, 2026 Jackson Heights Nepali and Tibetan New Yorkers are holding vigils and Buddhist prayers, and wiring home money meant for Teej, after the glacier collapse and flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border.
  118. August 28, 2026 East Elmhurst The FAA is moving to fire two LaGuardia air traffic controllers who left an hour early on March 22, leaving two people in the tower the night an Air Canada jet hit a Port Authority fire truck, killing both pilots.
  119. August 28, 2026 Flushing Meadows The 1930s Passerelle Boardwalk carrying US Open crowds from the 7 train has had more than 200 boards patched in two years while its renovation price climbed from $106.2 million in the 2017 capital plan to $158.8 million.
  120. August 28, 2026 One-bedroom rents rose near 450 of the city's 473 subway stops — *The apartment you didn't move out of last year is the reason the one you want costs more.* Top story
  121. August 27, 2026 Kew Gardens Hills Jing Wang, 61, was struck and killed crossing Union Turnpike at Main Street, less than half a mile from her home
  122. August 27, 2026 Long Island City The borough's apartment construction pipeline has fallen 76% since early 2024, to 2,597 units, with stabilized vacancy at a record-low 1.3%
  123. August 27, 2026 Astoria Two men were shot on Steinway Street in Little Egypt early Wednesday; the 114th Precinct has logged four shootings this year, down from nine at this point in 2025
  124. August 27, 2026 Queensboro Hill State Sen. John Liu got DOT to add a 9 a.m.-to-noon loading zone on Main Street between 59th and 60th avenues after bus-lane cameras ticketed delivery trucks into skipping the block
  125. August 26, 2026 Astoria The city's draft housing plan asks Community District 1 to add 9,890 homes by 2030, the largest target of any district in Queens.
  126. August 26, 2026 Jamaica Estates The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is looking for two people who threw motor oil and feces at two Queens synagogues last month.
  127. August 26, 2026 Glendale Mamdani said the sewer system was built for a century-old rainfall and needs a full overhaul, while Council Member Phil Wong wants catch basins cleaned on a fixed schedule instead of after storms.
  128. August 25, 2026 Jamaica A man jumped from a third-floor window to escape a fire at 90-29 138th Place Monday morning and survived with non-life-threatening injuries.
  129. August 25, 2026 Jamaica Estates The Hate Crimes Task Force is now hunting two suspects in July's motor-oil attacks on two Young Israel synagogues; the 107th Precinct has logged 15 hate crimes this year against six at this point last year.
  130. August 25, 2026 Flushing Council Member Phil Wong demanded City Hall shift hundreds of millions to DEP after his district flooded at least four times in a month, asking for more catch-basin cleaning and sewer capacity.
  131. August 24, 2026 Laurelton Jose Scott, 33, was stabbed to death in front of an auto shop on Merrick Boulevard three doors from his home Sunday night; his mother found him.
  132. August 24, 2026 Maspeth Council Member Phil Wong asked Mamdani to fund sewer capacity and retention tanks after four floods in a month, and to clean catch basins on a schedule rather than after storms.
  133. August 24, 2026 East Elmhurst Win cut the ribbon on a new playground at its Ditmars Boulevard family shelter, built over two years because the city does not require shelters to have one.
  134. August 23, 2026 Far Rockaway Redfern Houses residents rallied against the concrete recycling plant across the Nassau line as the state opened its comment period on the plant's permit.
  135. August 23, 2026 Flushing Yelp ranked Citi Field the best stadium in the country for game-day food, crediting its 27 vendors.
  136. August 23, 2026 Astoria A penthouse at Rowan II went into contract at $1,766 a square foot, a neighborhood record, before the building even opened.
  137. August 22, 2026 College Point Masked ICE agents have escalated stops of drivers with out-of-state plates in the majority-Latino neighborhood, arresting a Colombian father in front of his 6-year-old daughter after running his New Jersey plates.
  138. August 22, 2026 Astoria A penthouse at the Rowan II condo tower went into contract for $1,766 per square foot, the highest price ever recorded for an Astoria condo.
  139. August 21, 2026 Prosecutors charged a 16-year-old with a string of chain-snatchings that targeted women as old as 65 across Jamaica, St. Albans and Elmhurst this summer.
  140. August 21, 2026 The MTA is adding express 7 trains and Long Island Rail Road service to Flushing Meadows for the US Open, which starts Sunday and is expected to draw over a million fans.
  141. August 20, 2026 Corona/East Elmhurst Rep. Grace Meng introduced three bills to force ICE agents to show badges, ban masks and let immigrants attend check-ins remotely, as ICE sightings in Queens doubled in July.
  142. August 20, 2026 Willets Point The city's Public Design Commission tore into the "dead facade" of Steve Cohen's $8 billion casino and park plan next to Citi Field, warning its elevated walkway would be too narrow for the crowds it's meant to serve.
  143. August 20, 2026 Sunnyside A year after Mamdani revived his pitch to deck over the Sunnyside rail yard for 12,000 homes, the Building Congress's Carlo Scissura says there's still "no vision, no grant application, nothing".
  144. August 19, 2026 Elected officials rallied in East Elmhurst against an ICE surge, citing 14 pickups along Astoria and Northern boulevards in July versus two in June.
  145. August 19, 2026 A 46-story, 561-unit tower with 169 affordable apartments is on pace to top out this winter at 30-25 Queens Boulevard in Long Island City.
  146. August 18, 2026 Ozone Park The family of Army Sgt. Angel Rampersad, killed last month in an Iranian strike on a Jordan air base, launched a fund to start a scholarship foundation in her name.
  147. August 18, 2026 Long Island City A 19-story, 117-unit condo tower at Queens Plaza North finished construction, adding an indoor basketball court and rooftop lounge a short walk from the elevated 7/N/W station.
  148. August 18, 2026 Ridgewood SALUD Pilates and Wellness, founded by 24-year-old Ridgewood native Jocelyn Morel, opened Aug. 15 with $28 drop-in classes and $189 unlimited monthly memberships.
  149. August 15, 2026 The city is expanding buyout outreach to flood-prone Hollis and Kissena Park, both built atop old ponds and swamps that flooded homes again this summer.
  150. August 15, 2026 More than 150 people rallied at Flushing Meadows Corona Park demanding $15 million more a year for the "flagship" park's dry fountains and aging infrastructure ahead of the US Open.
  151. August 15, 2026 Queens home prices barely budged in July, but listings jumped 9% year over year, the sharpest rise of any borough.
  152. August 14, 2026 The $175.6 million Elara development in Astoria will bring 429 apartments, 107 of them permanently affordable, to 41st Street.
  153. August 14, 2026 Sunnyside Yard's $21 billion redevelopment has gone quiet since Mamdani and Trump shook hands over it in February, with no stakeholders or funding lined up.
  154. August 13, 2026 Corona Officials and neighbors rallied at Corona Plaza to hand out Know-Your-Rights materials after ICE sightings across the city jumped from 20 in June to 59 in July, nearly half of them in Queens.
  155. August 13, 2026 Flushing Landlord Pinnacle Group sold off 743 condo and co-op units for $128 million, some for under $175,000 apiece, unwinding a rent-stabilized-to-condo conversion business a 2019 state law made unprofitable.
  156. August 12, 2026 Corona Hundreds rallied against what organizers called a surge in ICE enforcement across Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, College Point and Corona, saying agents have detained someone in the area nearly every day in recent weeks.
  157. August 12, 2026 Woodside Colombian New Yorkers set up more than a dozen donation drives across the city after a deadly earthquake killed nearly 200 people and injured more than 3,000 back home.
  158. August 12, 2026 Rockaway Beach A 17-year-old drowned in a rip current off Beach 84th Street after lifeguards had already cleared their chairs for the night, the summer's first fatal beach drowning in the city.
  159. August 11, 2026 Corona ICE sightings have more than doubled since July, advocates who track raids say, thinning foot traffic in Corona Plaza as vendors stay home.
  160. August 11, 2026 Woodhaven Two men swindled a 69-year-old woman out of $5,000 in jewelry in a fake lottery-ticket scam.
  161. August 11, 2026 Jackson Heights The first-ever South Asian Unity Parade brought Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Nepali and Sri Lankan New Yorkers down 69th Street.
  162. August 10, 2026 Woodhaven Two scammers conned a 69-year-old woman out of $5,000 in jewelry by claiming they had a lottery ticket they couldn't cash because of their immigration status.
  163. August 9, 2026 Queens A new affordable-housing lottery opened for 18 units at 49-18 Vernon Boulevard, with studios from $2,945 a month for households earning up to $198,510; apply by Aug. 27.
  164. August 8, 2026 Corona A grand jury indicted Jonnathan Barbecho on 19 felony counts after he was extradited from Honduras via Interpol for a New Year's Day hit-and-run that killed one man and left another in a vegetative state.
  165. August 8, 2026 Astoria/Woodside Tenants pushed back after landlord groups sued the Rent Guidelines Board over June's rent freeze, calling the lawsuit a familiar public-relations tactic.
  166. August 8, 2026 Astoria Four shoppers were hurt when a 25-by-60-foot section of ceiling collapsed inside a City Fresh Market supermarket; the city ordered the building vacated.
  167. August 7, 2026 Long Island City A Brooklyn man was charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a date to death in a Hunter Street high-rise, then spraying a fire extinguisher at security cameras while naked on the roof.
  168. August 7, 2026 Corona The first residents moved into Willets Point Commons, the city's largest all-affordable housing development in decades, with 880 units across from Citi Field.
  169. August 7, 2026 Flushing The Mets pounded out 18 hits to sweep the Guardians 13-6, with rookie lefty Jefry Yan, once out of baseball working construction, notching his first big-league strikeout.
  170. August 6, 2026 Far Rockaway Michael Williams and Kevon Johnson were sentenced to 22 and 20 years to life for the 2022 murder of Jabeon Bivins in a hail of gunfire at Redfern Houses.
  171. August 6, 2026 Long Island City The MTA opened an online auction for its retired, thousand-pound MetroCard vending machines, pickup required within 10 days.
  172. August 5, 2026 A vandal smashed a statue with a hammer at St. Rita's Church in Dutch Kills, the fourth attack on the Long Island City church since 2024.
  173. August 5, 2026 A Jamaica man was indicted on seven burglary counts for a five-week spree hitting offices in Maspeth, Woodside, Long Island City and Jamaica.
  174. August 4, 2026 Astoria A $250 million loan clears the way for 560 mixed-income apartments and a rebuilt P.C. Richard & Son on Steinway Street.
  175. August 4, 2026 Flushing A Post investigation finds 77 senior daycares in a one-mile radius billed Medicaid $733 million since 2018, many with empty rooms during visits.
  176. August 4, 2026 Fresh Meadows A 22-year-old already jailed in a fatal crash was charged with hate crimes for twice vandalizing a kosher bagel shop displaying Israeli flags.
  177. August 2, 2026 Long Island City A 36-year-old man was found stabbed to death inside the Hayden, a 51-story luxury rental at Court Square where two-bedrooms list near $6,000 a month; no arrests yet.
  178. August 1, 2026 Ozone Park Thousands, including Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani, packed a church to bury Army Sgt. Angel Rampersad, killed in Iran's missile strike on a Jordan air base July 17.
  179. August 1, 2026 Douglaston-Little Neck Queens Public Library broke ground on a $40.2 million rebuild that will double the branch's public space.
  180. July 31, 2026 Long Island City The city unveiled The Orion, 980 apartments on the last vacant Hunter's Point South waterfront parcel, two-thirds of them priced below market.
  181. July 31, 2026 Corona A Georgia man was indicted in a $20,000 murder-for-hire killing of Jairo Vinces-Cobena, tracked down after the hitman circled the block on a scooter for 30 minutes.
  182. July 31, 2026 Flushing A new poll finds 73% of Asian voters in Grace Meng's district oppose the Metropolitan Park casino, rising to 79% in Downtown Flushing itself.
  183. July 30, 2026 Flushing A&E Real Estate, the city's most-cited "worst landlord," faces a class action alleging it overcharged Queens rent-stabilized tenants by $5 million using bogus renovation claims.
  184. July 30, 2026 Long Island City The city will build 983 apartments, two-thirds permanently affordable, on a long-vacant Olympic-bid site called Parcel E.
  185. July 29, 2026 Far Rockaway Kegan Thomas, 33, was charged with murder after allegedly shooting his mother and sister dead and setting the family home on fire Saturday; a dog and cat also died in the blaze.
  186. July 29, 2026 Elmhurst A hammer-wielding man chasing a woman shoved an 8-year-old boy into a fence at the Jewish Institute of Queens, injuring the child; police say the school does not appear to have been the intended target.
  187. July 29, 2026 Jamaica A Queens Defenders cofounder who embezzled more than $400,000 from the legal-aid nonprofit, forcing 150 employees to transfer and costing it $35 million in contracts, was sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
  188. July 29, 2026 Astoria Tootles & French, named a USA Today Best New Restaurant finalist in 2025, is closing for good after nearly three years on Ditmars Boulevard, its owner citing the personal toll of running it.
  189. July 28, 2026 A five-alarm fire tore through three Flushing homes, killing a 78-year-old woman and injuring 17 firefighters and two EMS members.
  190. July 28, 2026 Propel NY Energy is surveying businesses ahead of a $3.26 billion underground transmission project meant to prevent blackouts like the one that recently hit southeast Queens.
  191. July 28, 2026 Organizers are boycotting the Jacob Riis "People's Beach" bathhouse conversion into a members-only club charging up to $2,000 a year, saying it threatens the beach's queer history.
  192. July 27, 2026 Belt Parkway A road-rage attacker beat 47-year-old Crisanie Dockery to death with a baseball bat after a car-accident dispute near Exit 21B early Sunday and fled; he remains at large.
  193. July 27, 2026 Citi Field The Mets rallied on three-run homers from Tyrone Taylor and Marcus Semien to beat the Dodgers 8-3 and avoid a series sweep, the day Carlos Beltrán entered the Hall of Fame.
  194. July 26, 2026 Far Rockaway explosion and double killing — *Two relatives are dead, a rowhouse is gutted, and the only person who can explain what happened is the man police just shot.* Top story
  195. July 25, 2026 A serial chain-snatcher has robbed six women across four precincts in a month, with a $3,500 reward now offered.
  196. July 25, 2026 A Bronx man was indicted for manslaughter after fatally striking a woman crossing Jamaica Avenue on a bus-only roadway, then fleeing the scene.
  197. July 25, 2026 A 13-story Woodside tower at 50-01 Queens Boulevard would bring 140 units, 35 to 40 of them income-restricted.
  198. July 24, 2026 College Point A fender-bender turned into a meat-cleaver attack that left a 47-year-old man stabbed in the head, chest and arm; felony assaults are up 15% this year at the 109th Precinct.
  199. July 24, 2026 Bayside/Whitestone Propel NY Energy finalized its 90-mile underground transmission route after Con Edison cut power to parts of Queens during the July 4 heat wave, part of a $3.26 billion push to ease grid strain.
  200. July 24, 2026 South Jamaica Council Member Ty Hankerson secured a deal crediting $1.4 million in accrued interest on Rochdale Village's $17.5 million water debt to the city's Department of Environmental Protection.
  201. July 23, 2026 Ozone Park Army Sgt. Angel Rampersad, killed in an Iranian strike on a Jordan base, is mourned block by block; Borough President Donovan Richards called it "a reckless war".
  202. July 23, 2026 Long Island City MoMA PS1 kicked off its Warm Up outdoor DJ series marking its 50th anniversary, with free tickets for local residents.
  203. July 22, 2026 Astoria A woman was fatally stabbed in an apparent domestic dispute; her husband was found dead hours later in Astoria Park in an apparent suicide.
  204. July 22, 2026 Jamaica Estates/Holliswood Someone threw bags of motor oil at two synagogues the same night; the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating as hate crimes in the 107th Precinct have doubled this year.
  205. July 21, 2026 Astoria/Randall's Island The RFK Bridge marked 90 years since it opened for Olympic tryouts in 1936, a Depression-era project built with federal relief bonds after the city ran out of money.
  206. July 21, 2026 Elmhurst The inaugural Fashion Week Queens kicked off at Queens Center with a runway show at Borough Hall the next day.
  207. July 20, 2026 Jamaica Estates/Holliswood A vandal hurled feces and motor oil at two Orthodox synagogues in a suspected hate-crime spree the NYPD is investigating.
  208. July 20, 2026 Jackson Heights A stranger punched an 81-year-old woman in the face outside a Salvation Army, leaving her with facial lacerations.
  209. July 20, 2026 Citi Field The Mets beat the Phillies 6-1 behind six shutout innings from Nolan McLean, even as the team preps for a trade-deadline sell-off with the season "down the drain".
  210. July 19, 2026 Hunters Point Permits were filed for a 36-unit mixed-use building at 11-48 44th Drive, steps from the Court Square subway stop.
  211. July 18, 2026 East Elmhurst MTA chief Janno Lieber toured the LaGuardia Bus Depot and touted a "golden age of mass transit" for Queens, pointing to an extra $35 million a year for the borough's buses.
  212. July 18, 2026 Corona The 15th annual TransLatina March drew community groups and elected officials to Corona Plaza to press for continued access to trans health care and protection from ICE.
  213. July 17, 2026 East Elmhurst The NYPD Police Academy was renamed for Det. Steven McDonald, the officer paralyzed by a 15-year-old's bullet in 1986 who spent three decades preaching forgiveness before his 2017 death.
  214. July 17, 2026 Flushing Gotham FC drew a New York-record 42,175 fans to Citi Field for the first NWSL match in city history, previewing the club's 2028 move to Queens.
  215. July 17, 2026 Federal agents searched former NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda's Puerto Rico home, the clearest sign yet that scrutiny of his cannabis-crackdown cash controversy has become a federal criminal probe.
  216. July 16, 2026 The Sunnyside Muslim Center held a security briefing after a caller threatened to "shoot every Muslim in the masjid," one of several recent threats against the mosque.
  217. July 16, 2026 A three-alarm fire tore through three Woodhaven homes in the heat, injuring three firefighters and displacing 14 people.
  218. July 16, 2026 Patrick Martinez won the Assembly District 30 primary by seven votes over a retired NYPD officer after a recount in western Queens.
  219. July 16, 2026 A Jamaica Central housing lottery opened for 15 affordable units, with three-bedrooms starting at $1,323 a month for a household of up to seven.
  220. July 15, 2026 Long Island City A 161-unit tower called Vernon Point is rising in Hunters Point on a $72.3 million construction loan.
  221. July 15, 2026 Ridgewood A two-alarm fire tore through Grandview Pharmacy and the apartment above it, displacing 14 people from 8 households.
  222. July 15, 2026 Corona Police are hunting a man who stabbed a 41-year-old in the arm and chest during a dispute and fled in a black SUV; a $3,500 reward is offered.
  223. July 14, 2026 Maspeth Council Member Phil Wong's district office had windows smashed and got threatening calls after two attacks on his staff near a proposed battery storage site; Speaker Menin vowed tighter security.
  224. July 13, 2026 Jamaica A stranger punched a 65-year-old man in the face at the Sutphin Blvd-Archer Avenue subway station in a random daylight assault, the NYPD said.
  225. July 13, 2026 Long Island City A 16-story, 161-unit building is planned for 44-68 Vernon Boulevard after Elmrod Management paid $28 million for the site and lined up $72.3 million in financing.
  226. July 13, 2026 Flushing Permits were filed for a 13-story, 60-unit building near the Main Street 7 train, on a site where demolition just wrapped.
  227. July 13, 2026 The Liberty, sliding to the WNBA's sixth seed on a two-game losing streak, host the Toronto Tempo looking to snap it.
  228. July 12, 2026 Cambria Heights Parks crews began planting elm, maple and cherry trees in Cambria Heights under Mayor Mamdani's plan to grow the city's tree canopy to 30% by 2040, starting with the hottest, least-shaded blocks.
  229. July 12, 2026 Long Island City Two former employees of a construction-testing firm are suing founder Jerry Agajian, alleging he subjected them to racist, sexually explicit harassment and fired them after they declined his dinner invitations.
  230. July 11, 2026 One-to-three-family home prices rose 2% and apartment prices rose 3% in the second quarter, even as closings fell as much as 19% in some submarkets.
  231. July 11, 2026 Long Island City Roslyn Nieves became the first woman to lead Queens Public Television in its history, with plans to expand it into a multimedia production hub.
  232. July 11, 2026 Jamaica A new Heirs Property Protection Program will offer loans to help families untangle inherited-home title disputes that put an estimated $4 billion in wealth at risk citywide each year.
  233. July 10, 2026 Ozone Park/Woodhaven Police charged Yogesh Sayrange with firebombing a Baptist church and a Jehovah's Witness hall with Molotov cocktails overnight Wednesday.
  234. July 10, 2026 Willets Point Gotham FC will join NYCFC at the new Etihad Park stadium in 2028, giving the two-time NWSL champions a permanent home in the city.
  235. July 9, 2026 Flushing Meadows NYC launched a pilot replacing gas generators with electric battery packs for food vendors at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, the first permanent infrastructure test ahead of a possible broader rollout across city parks.
  236. July 9, 2026 Gotham FC, the National Women's Soccer League team, officially confirmed it will relocate from Red Bull Arena in New Jersey to a Queens stadium in 2028.
  237. July 8, 2026 Gotham FC announced it will move from Harrison, New Jersey's Sports Illustrated Stadium to Etihad Park in Willets Point starting in 2028, sharing the new Queens venue with NYCFC and hosting Olympic soccer matches the same year.
  238. July 7, 2026 Middle Village Council Member Phil Wong called for a criminal investigation after his staffer was allegedly pushed to the ground by a contractor installing a battery storage facility directly across the street from PS/IS 128.
  239. July 6, 2026 Citi Field Juan Soto was voted starting left fielder for the NL All-Star Game, finishing second in fan balloting among NL outfielders; it is his fifth career All-Star nod and first as a Met.
  240. July 5, 2026 South Ozone Park The Post reports NYPD is hunting for a woman who allegedly stabbed her 59-year-old mother, Ausha Ramlakhan, to death on 128th Street near Liberty Avenue on July 4; the suspect fled in blue yoga pants, a red tank top, and white sneakers.
  241. July 4, 2026 Astoria Elected officials broke ground July 3 on a battery energy storage facility at 24-51 49th Street, adding grid capacity the city badly needed this week.
  242. July 4, 2026 A New York City Council staffer was allegedly assaulted by a contractor at NineDot Energy's battery storage site; police are investigating.
  243. July 3, 2026 Three primary races head to manual recount beginning July 10: Assembly District 30 in Woodside and Jackson Heights (Patrick Martinez leads Shamsul Haque by two votes), Assembly District 66 covering the West Village and parts of Tribeca, and a Republican state Senate primary in Borough Park and Midwood.
  244. July 3, 2026 Rockaway Beach temporarily closed Thursday afternoon after multiple confirmed bull shark sightings off the Queens coast, the Parks Department shut the beach for an hour, then reopened it at 3:30 p.m. after the last drone sighting cleared.
  245. July 3, 2026 When the New Power Line Went Dark — *The $8 billion blackout insurance failed on its first day under contract, in 105° heat.* Top story
  246. June 30, 2026 then Toronto The Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza before a Phillies series, then lost two of three and finished a 1-6 homestand at 35-49; they now travel to Toronto to face the defending AL champion Blue Jays.
  247. June 29, 2026 various The Mets ended a seven-game losing streak Sunday, beating the Phillies 6-2 at home behind four sixth-inning runs and two more in the seventh, interim manager Andy Green's first win, with Christian Scott activated to start.
  248. June 26, 2026 Jackson Heights Venezuelan New Yorkers on Roosevelt Avenue organized a relief coalition within hours of two back-to-back earthquakes, coordinating financial donations through restaurant owners as staging points; the Venezuelan diaspora also called on the State Department to reactivate Venezuelan TPS, which ends this fall. (El Diario NY)
  249. June 25, 2026 Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas beat seven-year incumbent Sen. Jessica Ramos in the SD-13 primary covering Jackson Heights, Corona, and East Elmhurst; support for the Citi Field Metropolitan Park casino, which unions backed for its job promises and Ramos opposed, was one of the defining splits in the race.
  250. June 23, 2026 The Brooklyn Nets used the No. 6 pick to take Louisville guard Mikel Brown Jr., capping a draft that, per NetsDaily, left rival front offices guessing under Sean Marks' no-leaks shop.
  251. June 23, 2026 The data breach at NYC Health + Hospitals exposed millions of patients' personal information to cybercriminals, according to a class-action lawsuit.
  252. June 23, 2026 Western Queens In the Jessica-versus-Jessica Senate race, a Super PAC with suspected ties to Mets owner Steve Cohen spent $850,000 on ads against Sen. Jessica Ramos, who opposes his casino.

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