Queens News

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 .

A proposed high-rise apartment building on the present site of a vacant 100-year-old East Village church could desecrate the dead, preservationists said at a Wednesday afternoon rally.

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday.

Two New York City men and a New Jersey man have been charged in the kidnapping of another man off a Queens street in broad daylight, holding him for over a month and demanding a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said Wednesday.

Volunteers ventured into the overgrown abandoned railway line in Forest Park to clean up debris and leaves.

IMAGES of the deadly Oklahoma tornado were roaring across her TV screen, but Marissa Bernowitz was worrying about a man she had never met.

Brooklyn, New York ---The Spirit of Malabo, a 24' ocean rowboat, arrives in Brooklyn, New York next week aboard MSC Krystal, a container shipping carrier, that left from Brazil on May 4. The vessel will be the engine behind a global HIV testing campaign during a transatlantic row later this year from the Canary Islands to New York's Brooklyn ... (more)

The number of reported violent hate crimes against LGBT people in New York continues to escalate, as the city's Anti-Violence Project is now investigating the assault of a transgender woman on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, NY.

Shady developer Moses Stern spent two weeks vacationing on this private island in the Florida Keys.

On the turf of former State Senator Carl Kruger and embattled State Senator John Sampson, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch came before a group of concerned citizens with a message: don't despair, not everyone is corrupt, be you must be active and involved to ensure the best from your elected leaders.

Jerry Wolkoff and his son David Wolkoff, owners of 5Pointz, the iconic graffiti-splashed old factory in Long Island City want to tear down the building for a luxury development.