104th Precinct
Missing Wife Hubby Goes Berserk
A 59-year-old Ridgewood man, whose wife went missing from their home threatened to open fire on cops for failing to find her, police said. More...
Family and loved ones of those lost at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 gethered for tenth anniversary where numerous politcal figures spoke including former President George W. More...
A study released by the state Superfund Program recently designated a site on Astoria Boulevard, formerly occupied by a dry cleaning service, as a “significant threat to public health and/or the environment”. More...
Queens detectives are seeking help from the public to identify and locate a hooded thug, sought in connection with gunpoint robberies of 11 Queens teenagers. More...
Workers at local Pathmark and Waldbaum’s Supermarkets are walking a tightrope, wondering if a bankruptcy filing by parent company, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company Inc. More...
The Sikh Awareness Society culminated a 10-year project to increase understanding of their culture and religion by donating books, pamphlets and DVDs to Councilmember Jimmy Van Bramer’s Sunnyside office. More...
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the New York Tri-State Area (RMHC-NYTSA) awarded a $17,000 scholarship to Sabrina Hussain of Ozone Park. Hussain is a graduate of John Adams H.S. More...
On September 8, the President of Delicias Andinas Manuel Miranda joined Congressmember Joe Crowley, during President Barack Obama’s address to the Joint Session of Congress. More...
Councilmember Jim Gennaro and his staff visited the Panorama Café on September 7 in Jamaica Hill to celebrate its fourth anniversary of serving the community. More...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the arrest and arraignment of a former employee of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for stealing taxpayer money. More...
Senator Stavisky tours the 9/11 memorial garden planted by the Korean-American Senior Citizens Society of Greater NY with KASCSGNY President Kyong Shik Kim. The garden is a 50-foot by 100-foot flower bed planted in the shape and colors of the A More...
We are closely approaching the 10th anniversary of the tragic events that took place on Sept. 11, 2001. Like many of you, I remember the event like it was yesterday and will never forget where I was on that fateful day. More...
In preparation for Hurricane Irene, Governor Andrew Cuomo shutdown the subway systems and bus routes at noon on August 27. The precaution was done to keep people at home, where they would be safe, rather than traveling in dangerous conditions. More...
The results for the race between David Weprin and Bob Turner in the 9th Congressional District were not available when the Gazette went to press. More...
Explaining the lawmaker’s action, Maloney stated: “Doctors at the 9/11 health clinics have been telling us for years that cancers would likely result from the toxic dust that lingered near Ground Zero following the attacks. More...
Children’s Librarian Susan Scatena of the Whitestone branch challenged her summer readers that if they would collectively read 3,000 books, she would kiss a frog on the library steps and try very hard to turn into a princess. More...
The Queens Library Foundation will host its Annual Gala on Monday, October 3 from 6 p.m. through 10 p.m. at Studio Square, 35-44 37th St. in Long Island City. More...
The week preceding and the days immediately following Labor Day 2011 were among the bloodiest in New York City’s history. In the city’s five boroughs, the week that ended on Sunday, September 4 saw 72 shootings. More...
In an astounding political upset, underdog Republican Bob Turner rode the crest of a furious late campaign surge into yesterday’s special election to hand a humiliating defeat to David Weprin as he won the seat previously held by Anthony Weiner More...
On September 8, Councilmember Elizabeth S. Crowley will introduce legislation to move all electrical conductors in the 30th Council District underground. More...
This photograph was taken by Queensbridge resident Christina Hogan from the sixth floor rooftop of her building on the morning of September 11, 2001. Both tower have been hit. More...
Federal officials last week announced that disaster aid is now available to assist Queens residents and government officials as they pay for damages caused by Hurricane Irene.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said that many Queens resi More...
A 45-year-old Corona man hired to work as a janitor at the 2011 US Open Tennis Tournament was arrested last week after he cleaned out laptop computers from an office at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. More...
The New York City Police Museum in Lower Manhattan is hosting an exhibit entitled: The Irish Whales: Olympic Champions of the NYPD, 1900-1924, from Labor Day through October 30. More...
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum unveiled on September 6 the official New York state September 11th Memorial Flag. More...
Forest Hills resident Paul Beaudry, member of the jazz group Paul Beaudry and Pathways will soon tour as a musical ambassador to South and Central Asia on behalf of The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad. More...
Students, staff and administration at the Lexington School for the Deaf recently paid tribute to the memory of those who were tragically killed in the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. More...
Councilmember Jim Gennaro takes part in a ceremony in which a restored front-end of a 1970s fire truck was donated to Fresh Meadows fire company Engine 315/Ladder 125 on Sept. 9 at the firehouse. More...
The Bayside-Whitestone Lions Club is marking the end of summer and the start of another school year by donating much needed school supplies to students of the QSAC School in Whitestone. More...
Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) recently announced a series of changes in services provided by its bus lines in Jackson Heights.
Starting September 4, southbound Q47 and Q49 MTA buses were rerouted to run on 75th Street More...
Cops Nab Basher
Cops at the 114th Precinct arrested a 27-year-old Queens man on September 1, and charged him with assault and weapons possession in the brutal beating of an Astoria man.
Police said Kevin Sorta and an accomplice ambushed the 39-year More...
Congressmembers who authored the groundbreaking Zadroga Act to provide 9/11 workers with health care and compensation, have filed a petition which could lead the way for coverage of cancer under the Zadroga law. More...
The Eighth Annual Discover Queens Restaurant Week began on September 12. Seen here in front of Queens Borough Hall at the event are (L. to r.); Queens Borough President Helen M. More...
The Armenian Church of the Holy Martyrs at Oceania Street and the Horace Harding Expressway in Bayside, celebrated its annual Oceania Street Festival in observation of the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on September 10. More...
A Manhattan judge ruled yesterday that Mayor Michael Bloomberg must testify in the trial involving his payment of $1.1 million to John Haggerty in 2009 to conduct an Election Day poll-watching operation for the mayor. More...
The horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a global experience. Families from around the world were affected by the loss of loved ones who died in the airplanes and the targets, which they struck. More...
For some immigrants who come to this country, the search for the American dream can quickly turn into an American nightmare especially in a poor economy. But not for Maria-Laura Arcos and Daniel Abaev, two Queens College students who despite di More...
More than 100 members of the Woodside community gathered to honor the fallen members of FDNY Rescue 4 by renaming the intersection of 65th Street and Queens Boulevard as the “Boulevard of Bravery”. More...
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