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A Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker has been fatally struck by a bus driver at a Queens depot. Newsday reports that the driver was reversing a bus at the depot in…
The director of the Queens Museum was a supporter of the boycott-Israel movement and used her views to cancel a prestigious event last year by the Israeli government marking 70…
The heroic 11-year-old boy who lost his life after plucking his friend from a frozen Queens pond was described as an angel by awestruck neighbors. Anthony Perez never managed to…
A long-planned redevelopment project for a neighborhood of run-down car-repair shops next to Citi Field in Queens is back on the drawing board, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. Under…
The Justice Department renewed its support for deporting a former concentration camp guard who has been living in Queens since the late 1950s. Polish-born Jakiw Palij, 92, was stripped of…
Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley conceded defeat in her reelection bid Thursday, a week after a too-close-to-call vote in her Queens district. Bob Holden, who ran on the Republican line after losing…
QUEENS (AP) – A crowd of teens from an Orthodox Jewish school demonstrated Thursday outside the Queens home of a former Nazi concentration camp guard whose U.S. citizenship was revoked…
A federal jury has sided with a group of New York graffiti artists who sued over the destruction of their work. A judge will now decide whether the artists must…
New York City health officials are investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in Queens. The city’s Department of Health on Tuesday announced that 12 cases of the disease have been…
The murder trial of a Queens man accused of gunning down a New York City police officer in 2015 began on Friday. Thirty-seven-year-old Demetrius Blackwell has pleaded not guilty to…
Talk about going out with a bang. The old Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens was brought down on Sunday morning with a controlled demolition. The eastbound span of the…
A city bus and a tour bus collided and spun around in a New York City intersection on Monday, leaving three people dead, including a pedestrian, officials said. Mayor Bill…
A Jewish mother and daughter were assaulted at a Queens subway station Wednesday afternoon by a drunk man who mistook them for Muslims. The incident was reported by the Daily…
The petirah of Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz on Shabbos, months after a cancer he battled two years ago returned, shocked his Queens district and the local Orthodox Jewish community. He was…
A New York City man faced terrorism charges Tuesday accusing him of trying to support the Islamic State terror group by traveling to the Middle East to fight with terrorists.…
The New York City Health Department has announced that it will spray pesticide from trucks in parts of Far Rockaway, Bayswater, and other Queens neighborhoods, between 9:00 p.m. Thursday, Aug.…
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…