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By Athena Dawson To many, Alanna O'Donnell is affectionately known as “the chicken lady.” The special education teacher ...
The Dept. of Transportation has reduced the operational hours of the controversial Main Street busway in Flushing. The busway, which runs down a .6-mile stretch of Main Street between Northern ...
The MTA has started construction on eight new staircases at the Flushing-Main St. subway station—in a project that is expected to take about 18 months. The work aims to ease overcrowding at the ...
The highly contentious College Point homeless shelter on 20th Avenue will open this week, but instead of its original plan to house 200 single men the shelter will now be home to 200 single women.
A video posted online showing an FDNY fire truck failing to maneuver a turn on 34 th Avenue in Jackson Heights has intensified the dispute between advocates and opponents of the avenue’s Open Streets ...
At a tense Monday night meeting, Community Board 7 voted 30-8 to approve a development team’s plan to rezone a large section of land by Flushing Creek. Dozens of protesters showed up to criticize the ...
The City Council voted Thursday to approve a land use application for a sprawling 13-tower mixed-use development that will transform the Flushing waterfront for years to come. The Council voted ...
A Flushing couple has been indicted on sex trafficking charges for allegedly bringing two women into the country from Korea and forcing them into prostitution, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz ...
Another mega-development is coming to Flushing. A 19-story mixed-use building will be going up at the waterfront site of the former Korean supermarket Assi Plaza, located at 131-01 39th Ave, according ...
The city is one step closer to creating a pedestrian/bicyclist greenway that would link several parks in central and eastern Queens together. The Parks Department and the Department of Transportation ...
The body of a man who had been missing for more than a week was found floating in a lake at Alley Pond Park Thursday. Khiron Anderson, from Bayside, was discovered in the water by a passer-by at ...
A 16-year-old boy was killed in a car crash Thursday when he slammed his car into tree in Glen Oaks. The teen, Dylan Moreno, was driving northbound on 80th Avenue near 265th Avenue when he lost ...