Assemblymember Phil Goldfeder joins in a march with library supporters to protect Queens libraries from devastating budget cuts in the upcoming year. “Libraries are an essential part of educating our community, and in our struggling economy, it is imperative that we continue to provide the same resources and funding to maintain the excellent quality [of] services of our libraries.”

Police this week arrested two suspects in connection with the April 16 robbery of a blind woman. Cops said the 58-year-old victim, guided by her seeing eye dog, was walking through the F line station at Queens Boulevard and 75th Avenue in Forest Hills at about 6 p.m. on April 16 when she was spotted by three women. As the […]

A drunk, off-duty cop was thrown out of Citi Field in the middle of a May 16 Mets game and arrested when he refused to leave his illegally occupied seat. Stadium security officers surrounded off-duty Police Officer Eduardo Cornejo, 30, after they realized he was settled into a much pricier seat than the one he paid for, police said. “He […]

Operators of a controversial Long Island City strip club twice denied a state liquor license are making good on their threat to open a nude jiggle joint in the newly trendy neighborhood. Show Palace, formerly known as Gypsy Rose, is scheduled to open at 42-50 21st St. on May 31 as a gentlemen’s club and restaurant– with a twist. A […]

Detectives at the Queens District Attorney’s office arrested a 43-year-old Ridgewood man on May 10 after investigators discovered he was operating an illegal motorcycle chop shop–complete with an assortment of replacement parts, in the garage of his Putnam Avenue home. Phillip Dietrich was charged with auto scrapping, criminal possession of stolen property, illegal possession of a vehicle identification number and […]

A Flushing Good Samaritan used an ice scraper to overpower a rage filled husband who had just hacked his wife in the head a dozen times with a meat cleaver, police said. Former Marine Juan Pablo Dapena, 44, was on his way to work at the Marriot Marquis at about 6 a.m. on May 23 when he spotted Kang Wang, […]

Pet Protection Bill In Senate Steal a pet and go directly to jail. The state senate last week passed a bill that would make stealing a pet dog or cat a grand larceny. Senator Carl Marcellino introduced the legislation after he noticed an increase in pet thefts by individuals who sell the animals to puppy mills, turn them over to […]

Hero pilot Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who knows a bit about birds striking aircraft, took to the airwaves recently in a campaign to trash Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Waste Transfer Station at LaGuardia Airport. Sullenberger pulled off the “Miracle On The Hudson” when he safely splash-landed his Airbus A320 in the Hudson River, after Canada geese crippled […]

Firefighters responding to a blaze in Bayside on May 23 made a grisly discovery-the body of a woman and her boyfriend, who was trying to hang himself, fire officials said. The unidentified, 30-year-old woman was found on a bed in a basement apartment on 214th Place in Bayside at about 7:30 p.m., fire officials said. “When firefighters opened a closet […]