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  1. October 10, 2026 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.
  2. October 8, 2026 The AG charged pharmacy owner Miguel Baron in an alleged $31 million scheme buying back HIV drugs from Medicaid patients and refilling them.
  3. September 13, 2026 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
  4. September 10, 2026 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.
  5. September 9, 2026 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.
  6. September 6, 2026 ESU officers took a man into custody without incident after a barricade at 85-05 35th Ave. following a shots-fired call
  7. August 29, 2026 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.
  8. August 11, 2026 The first-ever South Asian Unity Parade brought Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani, Nepali and Sri Lankan New Yorkers down 69th Street.
  9. July 20, 2026 A stranger punched an 81-year-old woman in the face outside a Salvation Army, leaving her with facial lacerations.
  10. June 26, 2026 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)

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