Queens News

Families are returning to Breezy Point to celebrate the holiday weekend even as the Sandy-ravaged community continues to rebuild.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Friday that all 14 miles of the city's beaches in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx are open despite severe damage by Superstorm Sandy.

Southside Jamaica, Queens, New York came out in full force Friday morning to say final farewells to D'aja "Asia" Robinson , 14, the young girl killed when someone fired 9 rounds into the Q6 city bus she was riding home after a friend's Sweet Sixteen birthday party, Saturday, May 18th, reports NY Daily News.

The best friend of the Queens teen shot dead on a city bus collapsed into tears at her funeral yesterday.

The Muppets are getting a new home in a Queens museum with a permanent exhibit the city hopes will persuade more tourists to venture beyond Manhattan.

On his second day as a mayoral candidate, Anthony Weiner visited a trio of local Queens newspapers-the Queens Tribune , Queens Courier and Queens Chronicle -trying to burnish his image as an outer-borough, middle class champion despite his new Manhattan residence.

Television star Amanda Bynes was hauled be-wigged and bewildered into a Manhattan courtroom this morning on bizarre bong-tossing charges after cops responded to reports of her smoking a joint in her lobby, and then caught her allegedly flinging the device out of her Times Square apartment's 36th floor window.

Cops are looking for three subway performers they say assaulted a man on an F Train in Long Island City earlier this month.

Kevin Santos sits by his lawyer in court in Brooklyn during a hearing prior to going to trial in the murder of police officer Peter Figoski of West Babylon in 2011.

A cop once assigned to Mayor Bloomberg's elite security detail was convicted of attempted murder yesterday for shooting his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend outside her Queens apartment.

The recent spate of anti-gay hate crimes has shocked many in the gay community. According to police, these crimes have more than doubled so far this year from 14 to 29, and most have been in Manhattan.

On October 20, gay activist Louis Rispoli was brutally attacked by a group of men while on a walk in Queens, N.Y., resulting in his death four days later, and while the crime continues to be investigated, questions concerning the initial response of the New York Police Department continue to go unanswered.

Cops were questioning a person of interest Thursday in connection with the death of a 14-year-old Queens girl, D'aja Robsinon , who was shot to death on her way home from a Sweet 16 party last weekend .

A young girl from Queens took her own life Wednesday, and investigators are checking to see if cyberbullying is to blame.

Condos in Long Island City are so hot real estate companies may need to hire bouncers for upcoming building openings.

An Astoria man who left Queens earlier this month to enlist in the Army was forced to leave his beloved dog behind - a three-year-old Blue Brindle Pitbull named Sinatra.

Senate Racing and Wagering Committee chairman John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, Orange County, introduced legislation today that would authorize seven casinos in New York - with up to three in the Catskills and one each in Westchester County and Queens.

Drowning was the most common cause of death associated with the devastating Superstorm Sandy, according to a report out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The tense scene unfolded just before 10 p.m. Wednesday on Queens Boulevard and 59th Avenue.

A 12-year-old girl hanged herself with a belt inside her family's home yesterday afternoon after cyberbullying from classmates, according to cops and the New York Post .