Queens News

With a name like Action Bronson , it is perhaps no surprise that the Queens, NY rapper was a big fan of action movies growing up.

Here's a story that I think most area residents can file under "No shit." Still, while we knew the truth through our own experience, there's now some data that proves Brooklyn has some of the city's most reckless drivers.

Prosecutors say Simon Watts, a third and fourth-grade teacher at P.S. 15 in Springfield Gardens, abused the students over a three-year period.

A woman ducks under crime scene tape in front of a New York city house once occupied by a famous gangster, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in New York.

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.