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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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%
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. August 23, 2026 Flushing Yelp ranked Citi Field the best stadium in the country for game-day food, crediting its 27 vendors.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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".
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. August 15, 2026 Queens home prices barely budged in July, but listings jumped 9% year over year, the sharpest rise of any borough.
  38. August 14, 2026 The $175.6 million Elara development in Astoria will bring 429 apartments, 107 of them permanently affordable, to 41st Street.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. August 11, 2026 Woodhaven Two men swindled a 69-year-old woman out of $5,000 in jewelry in a fake lottery-ticket scam.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. 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.
  59. 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.
  60. 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.
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. 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.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. 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
  81. July 25, 2026 A serial chain-snatcher has robbed six women across four precincts in a month, with a $3,500 reward now offered.
  82. 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.
  83. July 25, 2026 A 13-story Woodside tower at 50-01 Queens Boulevard would bring 140 units, 35 to 40 of them income-restricted.
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. 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.
  87. 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".
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. July 21, 2026 Elmhurst The inaugural Fashion Week Queens kicked off at Queens Center with a runway show at Borough Hall the next day.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. 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".
  96. 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.
  97. 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.
  98. 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.
  99. 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.
  100. 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.
  101. 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.
  102. 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.
  103. July 16, 2026 A three-alarm fire tore through three Woodhaven homes in the heat, injuring three firefighters and displacing 14 people.
  104. 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.
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. July 15, 2026 Ridgewood A two-alarm fire tore through Grandview Pharmacy and the apartment above it, displacing 14 people from 8 households.
  108. 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.
  109. 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.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. 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.
  113. 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.
  114. 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.
  115. 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.
  116. 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.
  117. 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.
  118. 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.
  119. 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.
  120. 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.
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. 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.
  124. 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.
  125. 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.
  126. 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.
  127. 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.
  128. 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.
  129. 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.
  130. 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.
  131. 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
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. 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)
  135. 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.
  136. 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.
  137. June 23, 2026 The data breach at NYC Health + Hospitals exposed millions of patients' personal information to cybercriminals, according to a class-action lawsuit.
  138. 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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