Tag: QUEENS
Don’t be too surprised if, somewhere between Elmhursts’s Woodside Avenue and 73rd and 74th streets, you spot the Obsessed Garbage Collecting Lady. DNAinfo has profiled Jen Mantovani, a four-year Elmhurst resident who has taken to dutifully patrolling the messy streets with the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, will notice the garbage and, like her, clean […]
An underground fire temporarily forced out hundreds of Astoria residents on Thursday afternoon, according to a report from DNAinfo. The flames shot up through openings in the ground, including “sidewalk cracks, manholes and sewer grates,” even setting some garbage on fire along 36th Street between 23rd and 24th avenues. “There was flames coming off from […]
A gunman remains at large after striking a bus in Queens on Monday night. The New York Daily News reports that he was aiming at a 21-year-old man, who subsequently suffered an ankle wound. None of the 35 passengers on board the Q22 bus were injured, however. Reports vary, with police saying there was only […]
Fed up with the world and all its bullshit, a raccoon had his Michael Douglas in Falling Down moment in Queens. According to NBC New York, the animal climbed up to the top of a light post at Woodhaven Boulevard and 95th Street in Ozone Park and refused to come down. It’s exact demands were […]
Had the four recently minted cops stationed at the Jamaica Avenue subway stop known that a man wielding a hatchet was about to lunge upon them, they would likely not have posed for a photo last Thursday. But no one could have predicted the nightmarish events that left two officers seriously injured, one bystander wounded […]
At 2PM yesterday, a man wielding a hatchet attacked four rookie cops yesterday in Queens and was shot dead. The group of recent academy graduates were huddled for a photo in front of a freelance photographer on Jamaica Avenue when Zale Thompson, 32, charged at them swinging a hatchet, striking one officer in the arm […]
Woodside, Queens graffiti complaints have soared 120% in just one year. The 11377 zip-code received 211 reports this year — that’s up from 96 in a comparable period last year. Joe Conley, chair of Community Board 2, tells DNAinfo that he’s noticed an increase in graffiti throughout his whole district, particularly in those hard to reach places. “Some […]
In October, the city will discontinue ferry service between the Rockaways and Manhattan. Originally set up as a temporary fix after Sandy walloped the area, a lot of New Yorkers have come to love this aquatic method of commuting and don’t want to see it end. This includes some Broad Channel residents and feisty Queens […]
New evidence points to the possibility that the NYPD lied about a deadly vehicular incident last year when 24-year-old Japanese student Ryo Oyamada was ran over by Officer Darren Ilardi while crossing 40th Avenue in Queens. The police reported that the cruiser’s emergency lights had been on at the time of the crash and that the officer was […]
Forest Park employees discovered a bag of 868 hypodermic needles last week. According to a spokesperson, the bag was found near Park Lane South and 112th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, under a guardrail. All the needles appear to be used. “It’s sad somebody would do that and put the public at risk,” Richmond Hill Block Association […]
