Queens News

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.

Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced on Tuesday that Manchester City FC and the New York Yankees have teamed up to create the league's 20th team.

The world has some very sick individuals in it. A male teacher was arrested for repeatedly having sex with a 13-year-old student in the bed he shared with his wife.

St. Ann's Warehouse will present a colossal celebration of tiny art, Great Small Works ' Tenth International Toy Theater Festival , June 14-23. As it has with great success in 2005, 2008 and 2010, Great Small Works will transform the vast and versatile St.

In Lake Success accident cleared on The L.I.E./I-495 EB west of x34/New Hyde Park Rd.

Filled with slapstick humor and the usual Bronson charisma, the visuals to "Strictly 4 My Jeeps" shows the Queens-bred rapper cavort around in the parody of a rapper's lifestyle.

Police hope evidence gathered from a backyard in South Jamaica will help them catch the person or persons who killed 14-year-old Daja Robinson, who was riding a public bus when she was hit by a stray bullet.

More than six months after Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will soon be delivering a major address to unveil his plans for how the city can prevent a repeat of the flooding and devastation in a future storm, and what the mayor is proposing may surprise you.

The rain may have shut down The Great GoogaMooga on Sunday, but it didn't keep the crowd from showing off their best summer styles on Saturday.