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  1. September 29, 2026 A three-alarm fire on 34th Avenue hurt three firefighters, and inspectors found illegal single-room partitions next door.
  2. September 8, 2026 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.
  3. September 1, 2026 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.
  4. August 20, 2026 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.
  5. August 13, 2026 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.
  6. August 12, 2026 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.
  7. August 11, 2026 ICE sightings have more than doubled since July, advocates who track raids say, thinning foot traffic in Corona Plaza as vendors stay home.
  8. August 8, 2026 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.
  9. August 7, 2026 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.
  10. July 31, 2026 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.
  11. July 18, 2026 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.
  12. July 15, 2026 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.

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