FDNY: Overloaded Power Strip Sparked Apartment Building Fire In Queens That Displaced About 90 Families
It grew to eight alarms and took hundreds of firefighters nearly 12 hours to put out.
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It grew to eight alarms and took hundreds of firefighters nearly 12 hours to put out.
The FDNY says the blaze is finally under control. Now, the investigation can begin.
The fire broke out around 1 p.m. Tuesday in a six story building on 34th Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets in Jackson Heights.
New York City's Asian community woke up in fear and pain Wednesday, even more on edge after learning of yet another deadly attack on Asian-Americans.
After extinguishing the flames, they found an 80-year-old woman unconscious and unresponsive suffering burns.
Tickets were issued to the business, DJs and several customers.
Eight people were treated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning at an apartment building in Queens late Friday night.
They were among 1,000 people from across the country nominated for Mazda's heroes program.
There is a battle brewing over more than a mile of open streets stretching through Queens. Residents who love having the car-free space are demanding the city make it permanent.
Issam Elabbar is accused of firing the bullet that went through Bertha Arriaga's, 43, third-floor window, hitting and killing her.
The bullet entered a third floor window just before 1 a.m. Wednesday on 34th Avenue and 92nd Street in Jackson Heights.
Calls for the fire on 84th Street started coming in just after 9 p.m. Friday.
Surveillance video shows the group kicking and stomping the man in the street.
Politicians who were present at the rallies say more steps will be taken to change laws.
It happened around 6:15 p.m. Saturday in Jackson Heights.
Outside, the line to get in stretched around the block.
Police say the suspect got away with about $900.
A fire hydrant was knocked out of the ground and a car seriously damaged.
First responders found the 35-year-old woman lying on the ground with multiple stab wounds to her torso around 7 p.m. at Tu S'Tilo Salon Spa on 37th Ave in Jackson Heights.
A woman is recovering after being hit by a flying wrench on a subway platform in Queens.
A Queens community is at odds with a local car dealership over the renovation of a nearby Travers Park.
It happened at around 8:20 a.m. at the Food Dynasty supermarket on 37th Avenue near 75th Street in Jackson Heights.
It happened shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday at El California Sports Bar on Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights.
It happened around 3 a.m. near the Roosevelt Avenue subway station in Jackson Heights.
Tito Martinez-Alvarenga, 19, and Victor Lopez, 20, were charged with murder, gang assault, kidnapping and criminal possession of a weapon Thursday.
