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Israel and a New York City museum have made peace after an event marking the 70th anniversary of the nation’s founding was canceled, then reinstated. Statements from the Israeli ambassador…
Citing criticism from Palestinian donors, the Queens Museum announced Wednesday that it is withdrawing from its commitment to host the official celebration of the 1947 United Nations resolution leading to…
Want to live like a Trump? Now’s your chance: The president’s boyhood home in Queens is on Airbnb. The 1940 Tudor-style house is being offered for $725 a night. The…
Police say a 73-year-old man was badly burned after he opened a mysterious package left on his doorstep in the shape of an oatmeal container and it exploded. Chief of…
Nearly 90 members of New York’s Assembly are urging Attorney General Jeff Sessions to deport a Nazi living in Queens. A letter, distributed by Assemblymen Dov Hikind and Michael Simanowitz,…
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Far Rockaway) responded to a call from a constituent in the Jewish community, allowing Shavuos to be observed without a poorly-timed power interruption. An interruption, if…
A New York City congressman is asking the federal government to take action to deport a Queens resident who served as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp. Polish-born Jakiw…
For drivers on two Rockaway bridges, your cash isn’t any good here. Starting early Monday, the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge in Queens will…
New York City’s deadliest house fire in two years killed five people, including three children, on Sunday afternoon, as flames surged through a middle-class neighborhood of Queens Village. The fast-moving…
A New York City firefighter fell several stories while battling a fire in Queens and later died. It happened at a five-story apartment building at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday. Officials…
Marine biologists say a humpback whale that washed up on Rockaway Beach Tuesday appears to have been struck by a vessel. Experts from the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society say a…
A real estate investor who bought President Donald Trump’s childhood home in Queens for $1.39 million in December has flipped it for a 50 percent profit. Michael Davis sold the…
New York City’s overworked Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens is getting a new span in April — and parts of the old bridge will be blown up over the…
A bull that escaped from a slaughterhouse and led police on a wild chase through Queens streets has died. Police corralled the bull in a backyard Tuesday after a two-hour…
A five-alarm fire that took hours to extinguish destroyed 14 shops in the Kew Gardens Hills section of Queens. Most of the businesses belonged to members of the area’s large…
President-elect Donald Trump’s boyhood home in in Jamaica Estates is going back on the auction block. Paramount Realty owner Misha Haghani says the property has “intangible value that goes beyond…
Two construction workers in Queens were killed Tuesday afternoon when a beam being hoisted by a crane at a construction site fell, crushing them, the NYPD says. The incident occurred…
The W train is returning to the New York City subway system Monday, after a six-year hiatus, the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has announced. The W train…
A driverless van hit two pedestrians, killing one of them, before crashing into a food cart Wednesday afternoon in Queens. Police say the driver of the van thought he had…
