Queens News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration released a new evacuation map on Tuesday, creating a more zone system and adding 600,000 additional people to evacuation areas.

To the question of whether she enjoys performing before larger or smaller audiences, singer-songwriter Melanie can offer a wider-lens perspective than most entertainers.

"We hope for a disposition where they will pay back $3.5 million for the earnings they made and $1.5 million in penalties," said Assistant AG Thomas Schellhammer.

Cops busted the man accused of stabbing an aspiring Queens Marine to death a day before the victim's 20th birthday, police said Tuesday.

People in this neighborhood in Jamaica have been trying to keep up with the dirty water that just keeps coming from somewhere.

Members of the NYPD's Queens Warrant Squad were spotted last week wearing T-shirts imprinted with a quote that some folks might find just a little bit offensive.

A woman from a ritzy New York suburb has been indicted on charges that she grew thousands of marijuana plants in a city warehouse.

Crews are working to rescue a construction worker who fell 15 feet into a trench at a property in the Kew Gardens section of Queens where there was a stop-work order in effect.

FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the movie "Goodfellas."

Richard Ferrugio of Queens, N.Y., could spend two years behind bars after being found guilty of aggravated animal cruelty for killing an alley cat, reported Monday's New York Post.

AT&T today announced a pilot project of solar-powered charging stations across all five of New York City's boroughs where the public can charge phones, tablets and other devices for free.

A mother and son duo were arrested Monday by Nassau police and charged with presenting forged prescriptions that were filled at Long Island pharmacies nearly three years ago, Nassau County police said in a Monday night news release.

This plaque memorializing PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford is set to be installed at the Church of the Village on Sunday, June 23, 2013.

This summer, the main city beach in the Rockaways, Queens, may be more crowded than in past years.

"What type of cellphone do you have, what carrier is it and what's your favorite app?" At 7:30pm, after media and tech folk scrambled into the Museum of the Moving Image off 35th Avenue in Astoria, the NYC Tech Forum began.

A commuter train shook on the tracks and then derailed in a tunnel under the East River shortly after leaving Penn Station on Monday night, forcing the hundreds of passengers on it to be removed and delaying the trip home for many others.

A family photo of Bayside, Queens, resident Pan Sun Kim. Police say jewelry similar to Kim's was found on a body discovered near the Woodbury Common Premium outlets in May. The Woodbury Police Department are waiting a positive DNA match before positively identifying the body but have been in touch with Kim's family.

Careless drivers going twice the legal limit on Brooklyn streets helped the borough earn its dubious distinction as the city's deadliest place for traffic and pedestrians.

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The FBI began digging for a body Monday in the former Queens home of notorious mob boss James "Jimmy The Gent" Burke, who was played by Robert De Niro in the movie "Goodfellas," sources told DNAinfo New York.